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AMD, on Monday, unveiled new six-core server chips built on the 45-nanometer process. Code-named Istanbul, the five new processors will come with clock speeds of up to 2.6GHz with a power consumption... Read more...

A presentation by Chris Paget exposes the myth being perpetuated on the touted security benefits of the RFID chip found in the new U.S. Passport Book. The RFID "security" essentially revolves around... Read more...

By using a technique called "computational scaling," IBM has unveiled a strategy to produce future chips based on a 22nm fabrication process. The idea is to do so by avoiding a complete overhaul of... Read more...

IBM this week demonstrated using water to cool three-dimensional stacks of processors. While still years away from production, this technology could well be implemented for its multicore servers as... Read more...

No, quad-core chips aren't heating up literally--though they do get quite hot if your case isn't properly ventalated. Rather, the quad-core CPU market is heating up, thanks to price cuts

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We all knew it was bound to happen sooner or later: as the DailyTech headline proudly announces, "The Megahertz Race is Now Officially the Multi-core Race". If you're an AMD fan who felt

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Sure, some companies are just now getting on that quad-core, 45nm bandwagon, but that isn't stopping Intel from... Read more...

It's been a long time coming but AMD finally got real with its 45nm lineup this week, more than a full year... Read more...

Though they might have given us a bit of a scare a few weeks ago, it looks like Read more...

If you support Merom-based systems that might need replacement CPUs at some point, take... Read more...