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&#47;s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard
Newegg.com - ASUS Maximus V EXTREME LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb&#47;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

[Skud]

Didn't find a proper thread to post in the mobile/tablet section, so posting here: another innovative product from AMD:-

AMD to Enter Mobile in a Money Earning Way: Launching a FirePro APU Tablet by VR-Zone.com

The promise of cloud computing may fill the newspapers, online media and spreadsheets, but the fact of the matter is that remote workplace with graphics is simply a miserable experience. We've received dozens of emails from our readers that are saying that Cloud services simply don't work when you need to work on complex graphics.

Enter FirePro. AMD's first professional grade tablet will feature very similar and catchy design as the consumer version, but also carries a lot of graphics horsepower for users that need that FirePro experience like on desktop and mobile. Naturally, a 4.7 Watt part cannot perform as good as the parts with 2-5x higher envelope, but it will offer much better workflow than working with 3D models on an iPad or a similar tablet.

AMD's advantage is that FirePro-based tablet can run Windows 8 Pro wth all the regular (desktop) versions of productivity suites. With AMD being the first out the door, the company just may gain traction by exploiting market niches where earnings and profits are high, and revenue and negative pressure (read: competition) being low.

[N@m@n]

some one update best cpu in india thread

[Terabyte]

Intel Haswell Could Be Last Upgradable Desktop Microprocessor

According to Japanese PC Watch web-site, code-named Haswell microprocessors may be the last desktop chips in LGA packaging, which enabled easy switch of CPUs on mainboards. Starting from Broadwell chips, which are due in 2014, all mainstream desktop processors will be available in BGA packaging.

Starting from Broadwell generation of central processing units (CPUs) mainstream chips will cease to use land grid array (LGA) and micro pin grid array (µPGA) packages and will only be available in in ball grid array (BGA) form-factors, just like Intel Atom processors.

While mainstream chips will reportedly be only supplied in BGA form-factors soldered to mainboards, which eliminates upgrade possibility, it is likely that high-end desktop (HEDT) platforms will still be supplied in LGA packaging. What remains to be seen is how expensive will such chips be.

Source : Intel Haswell Could Be Last Upgradable Desktop Microprocessor | Guru3D

[vickybat]

Haswell SKUs Expand to 33 Desktop Versions

There are going to be two i7 sku's in haswell which are i7 4770k and i7 4670k along with their derivatives.

But from that image, it shows haswell having 6 physical cores.

[Amir5223]

In the previous sheets 4670K was mentions as i5 instead of i7...interesting one

[Myth]

MSI and ASrock Haswell Motherboards caught on camera (photos)

Msi plans to fry the mobo with 2 x 8pin connectors for the proc !

[thetechfreak]

And the new extreme series processors probably won't be that much worth the extra $$$$
http://hardwarebbq.com/2013/03/intel...formance-boost

[vkl]

Bit old news but it seems AMD steamroller based Opteron parts would start appearing in 2013 according to AMD's new roadmap slides for server parts.
AMD: We Are On Track With Steamroller Micro-Architecture in 2013 - X-bit labs

Intel confirms usb3.0 bug present in Haswell chipsets,would fix it by newer revised chipset.
Seemingly the initial batch of motherboards based on C1 chipsets would have this bug while the revised batch based on C2 chipsets would arrive somewhat later.
Fixed Core-Logic Sets for Intel Core
Intel Confirms Haswell Chipset Bug - Bright Side Of News*

[sam]

Rumour: AMD to unleash the Centurion - FX at 5GHz

i hope by 5Ghz they didn't mean 5Ghz turbo.

[thetechfreak]

i hope by 5Ghz they didn't mean 5Ghz turbo.

Nice.
But I think they exactly meant that