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Intel will be rolling out new Nehalem-based processors during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in just a few weeks time. Due to be unveiled will be processors manufactured using new 32-nanometer... Read more...

Intel introduced the new "Clarksfield" Core i7 Mobile processor at the Intel Developer Forum last week. One of its capabilities is called "Turbo Boost," which in itself introduces a different... Read more...

Microsoft has updated its popular programming suite, Visual Studio 2008, to incorporate better support for parallel programming. Among other capabilities, it will now include support for debugging... Read more...

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...

Intel officially took the wraps off its Nehalem-EX processor this week, which will come with up to eight processing cores. The chip behind the next iteration of Intel's Xeon server line is scheduled... Read more...

A start-up headed by veterans from the computer server industry has come up with some high-powered appliances designed to speed up cloud-based applications. Put together by Schooner Information... Read more...

Code-named Fiorano, AMD's new server platform is due out in the second half of 2009. Designed with the "Shanghai" 45-nanometer processors in mind, it will come with full support for HyperTransport3,... Read more...

Intel has unveiled a new family of microprocessors which it says will be initially targeted at the graphics card for the personal computer. Code-named Larrabee, it will feature between 16 and 48... Read more...

IBM appears set to launch an eight-core Power7 chip, if reports over at The Register are correct. Documents showed the Power7 chips scaling to 4.0GHz in 2010 on a 45nm process. Each core will yield... Read more...