With Advanced Micro Devices Inc. pushing out a slew of new products this month, its long-chilled chip war with Intel Corp. may just be heating up again, analysts say.
After struggling with delayed products and bad market and mind-share woes through 2007, a lot of industry pundits started writing off AMD. And while AMD struggled, […]
When it comes to computer processors, the advantages of a die-shrink are undeniable. For chip makers – and overclockers – a processor manufactured at a smaller process can open up more headroom for faster clock speeds, or decrease power consumption and cooling requirements. A die-shrink is a much-lauded happening in the computer world. For consoles, […]
We know the 65nm version of Xenon, the Xbox 360’s triple-core CPU, had been delayed from Q1 2007 to “mid-2007,” just missing being used in the Xbox 360 Elite, making irony the system’s most prominent feature. But the CPU isn’t the only thing getting shrunk: DigiTimes reports that the Xbox 360 will be equipped with […]