http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/configurations.available.with.up.to.256.sockets/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/sgisml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />SGI has introduced the Altix UV, a new series of supercomputers geared for large databases or analysis operations. The computers are based on Intel's Nehalem platform, with support for configurations utilizing quad-, six, or eight-core Xeon CPUs. Devices can be scaled to integrate up to 2,048 cores, with architectural provisioning for up to 262,144 cores.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/configurations.available.with.up.to.256.sockets/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/intel.nehalem.ex.coming.for.hpc.systems/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/intel45nmdie-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel today promised a version of its Xeon processor specifically tailored to high performance computing (HPC). The design will share the same architecture as the eight-core Nehalem-EX but drop to six cores in return for greater overall performance. Clock speeds should be higher and will still take advantage of the extra bandwidth of the new platform, making it a better pick for clusters and mul... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/intel.nehalem.ex.coming.for.hpc.systems/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/11/amd.plans.unified.cpu.gpu.by.2011/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/amdphenomii-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AMD in its annual analyst event provided details of some of its future processors and platforms. The highlight for the semiconductor firm is "Bulldozer," a major revision for both desktops and notebooks that should be much more efficient at multithreaded codethan existing designs. It will be particularly optimized for pairing with graphics chipsets and will be supplemented by "Bobcat," a variant... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/11/amd.plans.unified.cpu.gpu.by.2011/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/09/netbooks.intel.winners.in.q3.share/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/macbookpro17-mattesm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Notebooks rode a massive wave of demand in summer, according to new IDC data. Shipments of mobile processors attached to the systems jumped 35.7 percent compared to the spring and grew more than three times faster than for desktop processors, which advanced 11.4 percent at the same time. Server processors like Intel's Xeon and AMD's Opteron saw their sales grow by 12.2 percent over the period.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/09/netbooks.intel.winners.in.q3.share/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/26/tilera.tile.gx100.may.beat.intel/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/tileratile-gx100.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Tilera on Monday unveiled a new processor it hopes will unseat Intel from its overall lead in performance. The TILE-Gx100 counts on a massively parallel, 100-core architecture to handle many tasks at once and reportedly overcomes some of the problems of scaling inherent to many-core designs. Instead of using a data bus, the grid is treated as a mesh network with switches on each core to route da... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/26/tilera.tile.gx100.may.beat.intel/ Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/14/apple.may.get.early.use.of.gulftown.xeon/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/macpro-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple may have a temporary exclusive on Intel's fastest workstation Xeons early next year, a purported leak argues tonight. An unnamed source says Apple is readying a Mac Pro based on the Xeon version of Intel's Gulftown six-core architecture and that the Mac builder would have a short exclusive for the processors, launching its own workstations in the winter while everyone else would have to wai... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/14/apple.may.get.early.use.of.gulftown.xeon/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/22/intel.maloney.keynote.leaked/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/intel45nmdie-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A prematurely released copy of Intel's plans for a Wednesday keynote has surfaced a day in advance and has provided details of the company's plans for the near future. The release obtained by ZDNet has Intel executive VP Sean Maloney revealing that the company has started shipping its many-cored Larrabee graphics chip to developers ahead of a full release and demonstrating what it can do in real-... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/22/intel.maloney.keynote.leaked/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/21/amd.fiorano.platform/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/amdopteronsix-core.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />AMD started the week today with a new whole platform for Opterons targeted at servers and the very high end of the computer market. Previously nicknamed Fiorano, the six-core Opteron with AMD chipset takes the company's existing server and workstation chips but adds a new chipset, the S5650, designed to scale for very heavy workloads. The technology now supports virtualization in hardware down t... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/21/amd.fiorano.platform/ Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/14/intel.32nm.and.jasper.forest.enroute/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/inteljasperforest.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel on Monday headed up its Developer Forum with word that it has started manufacturing its first processors based on a 32 nanometer (nm) process. The shrink from 45nm, nicknamed Westmere, should improve performance by increasing the density of the processors by about 30 percent while reducing the amount of power used; the gesture lets Intel boost clock speeds without drawing extra battery life... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/14/intel.32nm.and.jasper.forest.enroute/ Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/08/intel.lynnfield.official/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/intelcorei5.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Intel today brought its most recent chip architecture into the mainstream with the official start to Lynnfield, its lower-cost but also more advanced desktop platform. The design is headlined by updated Core i7 and new Core i5 processors that build not only the memory controller but also a 16X PCI Express interface directly into the processor die, leaving just a single chip on the mainboard to co... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/08/intel.lynnfield.official/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:35:00 GMT