For quite some time now, Intel has been the undisputed leader when it comes to laptop CPU performance. This advantage comes from the fact that Intel has successfully scaled its desktop processor technology for use in the mobile platform. That trend continues with the latest mobile processor platform being unleashed today from Intel: the “Clarksfield”-based [...]
Who said Athlon is dead and that the Phenom processors have reign supreme in the quad core processors in the ages of 2008 and also 2009. Well, not entirely, they are considered the much cheaper alternative. Well the Phenom series is an obvious reason of being one of the most high end processors that AMD [...]
Well the new Intel corei5 processors in the new role today in to be the next generation of the processor that has a base manufacturing from the Intel corei7 processors. They still have the same onboard memory controller that makes the latency of the memory to the CPU a breeze and creating a more universal [...]
Processors have the high end, power consuming chip, with both AMD and Intel, hitting a top of 140W CPU output requirement in the motherboard, but now we have the power savers from AMD. They have released their power saver in the new Phenom names, first of all they have, the three cores and a much [...]
As processors, in all of time is considered to be a most important part of any computer to run apps and calculate simulations. With also, some problems like the power consumption when it hits at a higher clock core, Intel, hit that problem, with the introduction of a 3.8GHz single core processor. The CPU needed [...]
One of the core importances of the processor in the everyday computing is where all of the knowhow and all of the codes and sources created from both Apple and Windows. Where it comes together and creates an experience for both the users and the participants to work efficiently and do work, and play with [...]
First we need to talk about how multi-core CPUs are built. There are two approaches. On the first one, called “multi-chip”, each core is made by different chips that are put together in a single package. Pentium D is a good example of a dual-core CPU that uses this approach. On CPUs based on this [...]
Pentium 4 and new Celeron processors use Intel’s seventh generation architecture, also called Net burst. Its overall look you can see on Figure 1. Don’t get scared. We will explain deeply what this diagram is about.
• The data path between the L2 memory cache (“L2 cache and control” on Figure 1) and L1 data cache [...]
It is important to know that there are two flavors of Atom CPUs. Atom series 2xx and N2xx (at this publishing only 230 and N270 models were available) – codenamed “Diamondville” – are targeted to laptops (because they use chipsets from Intel 945 series, which are big and use two chips) while Atom series Z5xx [...]
The new K10 architecture is based on the K8 (a.k.a. AMD64) architecture with some enhancements. Thus we recommend you to read our Inside AMD64 Architecture before continuing to read the present tutorial. By the way, AMD never released an architecture called K9, from K8 they jumped to K10.
Just to remember, memory cache is a high-speed [...]