CPU/Chipset News

[Jaskanwar Singh]

Gigabyte Also Demos G1.Assassin 2 X79 Motherboard at IDF 2011 - Softpedia

 

[tkin]

^^ Overpriced useless mobos from Gigabyte, the entire G1 line.

 

[Skud]

i7 2700k debuts:-

Intel officially rolls out Core i7-2700K

 

[d6bmg]

^^ Very nice news, but its a very bad time to introduce 2700K considering the present deteriorating condition of dollar.

 

[Skud]

For Intel, this should be the perfect time. As for US/Europe this should be better.

 

[thetechfreak]

Intel to Halt Shipments of LGA 1366 CPUs, Including Core i7-990X - Softpedia

 

[d6bmg]

^^ It was expected as their top-end CPUs are being replaced by latest LGA 2011 socket based CPUs. But we can't expect price drop of 990x, right?

 

[Cilus]

They also stopped the Lynfiled based dual core and Pentium G processors too. Only Nehalem based processor they will be shipping is i5 7XX series.

 

[ranjitsd]

intel 2550k

Intel Adds New Core i5-2550K CPU to Sandy Bridge Lineup - Lenzfire

 

[saswat23]

Intel Atom Cedar Trail Processors
Intel Atom Cedar Trail processors revealed due - Online Best Latest Price Reviews | Features in India

 

[d6bmg]

This might be an interesteing link: IBM Quietly Starts to Make Chips for AMD - X-bit labs <--IBM Quietly Starts to Make Chips for AMD

 

[Skud]

Pretty interesting:-

Engineers Show Way to Improve Performance of AMD, Intel Hybrid Chips by 20% - X-bit labs

In the proposed CPU-assisted GPGPU, after the CPU launches a GPU program, it executes a pre-execution program, which is generated automatically from the GPU kernel using the proposed compiler algorithms and contains memory access instructions of the GPU kernel for multiple threadblocks. The CPU pre-execution program runs ahead of GPU threads because (1) the CPU pre-execution thread only contains memory fetch instructions from GPU kernels and not floating-point computations, and (2) the CPU runs at higher frequencies and exploits higher degrees of instruction-level parallelism than GPU scalar cores. The researchers also leverage the prefetcher at the L2-cache on the CPU side to increase the memory traffic from CPU. As a result, the memory accesses of GPU threads hit in the L3 cache and their latency can be drastically reduced. Since the pre-execution is directly controlled by user-level applications, it enjoys both high accuracy and flexibility. Engineers' experiments on a set of benchmarks show that our proposed pre-execution improves the performance by up to 113% and 21.4% on average.

 

[sukesh1090]

^^
the research was funded by AMD.looks interesting..

 

[rajatGod512]

Intel Confirms Ivy Bridge Specifications:
Intel Presentation Confirms Ivy Bridge Specifications

MSI Z77A-GD65 'Ivy Bridge' Motherboard Preview :
MSI Z77A-GD65 'Ivy Bridge' Motherboard Preview - MSI Z77A-GD65 'Ivy Bridge' Motherboard - Legit Reviews

 

[rajatGod512]

IVY Bridge Preview / 3770K Tested

AnandTech - The Ivy Bridge Preview: Core i7 3770K Tested

 

[thetechfreak]

New AMD FX processors sighted in MSI support list

Intel Core i3 Ivy Bridge CPUs Detailed, Will Sell Starting Q3 - Softpedia

 

[d6bmg]

CPU-Z Validator 3.1

New world record eith FX8150.
Thanks to Sumon for letting me know of this link.

 

[d6bmg]

Asus Maximus V Formula & Extreme is now available.
Newegg.com - ASUS Maximus V FORMULA LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard
Newegg.com - ASUS Maximus V EXTREME LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard

Considering all the spaces, Formula looks like a better choice to me.

 

[N@m@n]

is it available in India...?

 

[saswat23]

Check this out:
AMD prepares FM2 Athlon II X4 CPUs - CPU - News - HEXUS.net