May 15th, 2007 by Priyam
Intel has again hit to eat up more market of AMD which is already getting narrower everyday.Intel has announced price reduction just 3 months after the previous drop on April 22. With a remarkable cut at 50% 
Intel Quad-Core Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4GHz/4MB L2 x2/1066MHzFSB) which was released in March at $530 will be cut to $266. Core 2 Quad Q6600, now it will be replaced by a new model Quad Q6700 (2.66GHz/4MB L2 x2/1066MHzFSB), pricing at $530.
Core 2 Duo E6000 family has no price update information at this moment, its relatives, Core 2 Duo 6050 family which features 1333MHz FSB releasing on July 22, has got a very impressive price advantage.
Here is a List of other processors prices after the price slash which will take effect from July 22, 07
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April 24th, 2007 by Priyam
Earlier i had posted about AMD Barcelona.
Today i have came across the Comparision of AMD Barcelona AMD’s native Quad Core Processor and Intel’s Fastet QX6800.
In Sandra multimedia benchmark Barcelona K10 2.5 GHz scores over 400.000 it/s (instructions / second) in integer test and about 300.000 it/s in floating point test.
Intel’s fastest QX6800 Quad core at 3 GHz scores about ~300.000 it/s in integer and ~180.000 it/s in floating point test.
So at least in multimedia stuff and this synthetic benchmark AMD’s native quad core is 33.3 percent faster than Intel’s fastest Quad core, while in the floating calculations it is a massive 66 percent faster.
The QX6850 with FSB 1333 might improve the situation a bit, but it won’t be enough save the day. Intel needs to go much higher than 3 GHZ to match the 2.5 GHz K10 part.
Seems AMD has got fed up with its half million losses and they are ready to defeat Intel.
So good news for die hard AMD Fans Like me!!! 
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April 18th, 2007 by Priyam
Intel showed off its 80 (yes you read it right) 80 core CPU at Intel Developer Forum Beijing. It was chomping data at a STUNNING rate of two teraflops a second. 
It’s a research chip that doesn’t yet use standard Intel Architecture (IA) internally, but it’s tangible evidence that Intel is making real progress towards massively-multicore CPUs. The CPU is based on a new design in which RAM is stacked directly on top of the CPU using copper ‘bumps’ touching each other thus providing faster RAM throughput than is possible via traditional system bus.
The cores are ‘tiled’ on the CPU, so that there can be one memory laneway per CPU thus allowing special function processors to be put onto a CPU such as a dedicated network interface or a special protocol processor like an XML processor, for example.
The processor is very energy efficient. When operating at 1 teraflop, it consumed only 46 watts power which is way less than 136W consumed by Presott Pentium 4s. Intel is now aiming to make a 100 cores processor. 
Wish someone Gifts me a Rig with 100 core CPU.
Neel & Azhar note it down and i want this for my next birthday 
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April 14th, 2007 by Priyam
Today at Techreckoner I am writing about Microsoft’s Windows Vista’s ReadyBoost technology and is it worth all the hype.
But first an insight into what actually ReadyBoost is.
From wikipedia:
ReadyBoost is a disk caching technology first included with Microsoft’s Windows Vistaoperating system. It aims to make computers running Windows Vista more responsive by using flash memory on a USB 2.0 drive, SD card, CompactFlash, or other form of flash memory, in order to boost system performance. Continue reading ‘Microsft Vista’s ReadyBoost: Is worth the hype??’
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April 13th, 2007 by Priyam
Chip Maker AMD is continuing to talk about its latest project AMD Barcelona (Codename – K8L or K10) will beat the competition (C2D,C2Q,C2X) hands down.
Guiseppe Amato, AMD’s European technical director, said: “Barcelona is an architecture that must be faster.”
He laid a lot of emphasis on the ability of the Barcelona to deliver four FPs per clock cycle, as well as having a bigger buffer and L1, L2, and L3 caches. He also claimed that the memory connect design of the microprocessor will give it an inherent advantage over Intel’s designs.
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