Intel’s plans for entering smartphone market is making sweet progress. Few days back, Intel announced Official Android port to x86, Atom and today they demonstrated the next generation Atom processor that would lay the building blocks of the future smartphones.

ARM currently controls a big piece of the mobile processing market, but Intel is attempting to make a comeback.

To give you an estimate of the power of the new processor, Intel demonstrated Quake 3 .. Read Further »

It might sound a little odd when you first hear that the technology that powers mobile phones today would power tomorrow’s Server.

ARM manufactures high-performance mobile computing chips. Of course, these processors cannot match the .. Read Further »

Often we compare current computer processors with human brain, we consider human brain to be superior at certain things: It’s ability to learn, adapt and react. But how does our brain react to multitasking?

We might have adopted quad cores on the desktops, but a new study reveals that human brain is capable of processing  only two tasks at a time, something close to a HyperThreading on a single core processor.

When faced with two tasks, a part of the brain known as the Medial Prefrontal Cortex (MFC) divides so that half of the region focuses on one task and the .. Read Further »

The researchers at HP have developed a new way to perform logic Operations, making it possible to fabricate much more advanced chips that would use memory devices in place of standard transistors. As per the research, an array of memristors (150 atoms wide) can perform both logic and storage operations.

The memristor is a device as fundamental as the resistor, inductor and capacitor, but is based on the relationship between flux and charge, rather than between voltage and charge.

Memristors retain memory states even when no current is being passed through them and they can be used not just as a memory device, but also to perform computations. That means computation could be performed on chips .. Read Further »

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today released first x86 12-core processor, doubling the number of cores in the previous generation chip in its Opteron line, leaving Fastest Intel Processor 8 Core Nehalem-EX in the dust.

The new 12-core Opteron is code-named “Magny-Cours” .. Read Further »

Intel plans to end the Processor Rat race, atleast for few months, by unveiling it’s latest Processor architecture: Nehalem-EX server. Last year, Intel had announced the new Nehalem — A 8-core processor.

The processor will be targeted at four-socket servers with each physical core will run two threads simultaneously, giving the chip 64 virtual processing cores on servers and can even go upto 128. (but if .. Read Further »