5 posts and columns on multicore

Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs Live at D8

in D8 on June 2, 2010 at 3:25 pm PT

Qualcomm may not be a household name, but it probably should be. The company commercialized the CDMA mobile standard and its chips can be found in many of today’s smartphones. Though if things play out as Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs would like, they’ll soon be showing up in a wide variety of consumer electronics devices as well.
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Intel Shelves Larrabee

in News on December 7, 2009 at 5:12 am PT

Good news for Nvidia and AMD: Intel is delaying commercial release of its chronically delayed Larrabee graphics processor. The company had initially promised to deliver the first version of the discrete multicore graphics processor in 2009. Later, it conceded that Larrabee might not arrive until 2010. Now, Intel has postponed the processor indefinitely.
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Just Slap the Thing in a MacBook, Already, Will Ya?

in News on December 2, 2009 at 2:12 pm PT

With 1.3-billion transistors and a 48-core processor, Intel’s new “Single-chip Cloud Computer” could power a formidable computer indeed. But it will be a while before it reaches market, if ever. Uncrated at an event in San Francisco Wednesday, the next-generation chip boasts approximately 10 to 20 times the processing power found inside current Intel “Core” CPUs.
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What's Apple Building in There?

in News on April 27, 2009 at 3:50 pm PT

Apple has fleshed out its chip design group with another key hire. The company has recruited Bob Drebin, former CTO of AMD’s Graphics Products Group, as a senior director. Apple won’t say what it is exactly Drebin’s going to work on, though it’s a safe bet it’s related to the multicore graphics processors in which Drebin has his expertise.
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What’s Apple Building in There?

in News on April 27, 2009 at 3:50 pm PT

Apple has fleshed out its chip design group with another key hire. The company has recruited Bob Drebin, former CTO of AMD’s Graphics Products Group, as a senior director. Apple won’t say what it is exactly Drebin’s going to work on, though it’s a safe bet it’s related to the multicore graphics processors in which Drebin has his expertise.
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