Introduction In the midst of the chipset disaster in February, Intel announced also the first dual-core processors on the basis of the “Sandy Bridge” architecture, have perished as well as in the desktop systems. For a price of just under or over 100 euros they promise but good performance and very low use. The following pages will illuminate the package compared to the quad-core models, which cost just just under 50 euros more at...

Introduction In the end it took much longer than actually planned. But anyway, meanwhile AMD’s “Low Power” is platform Brazos in commercially available and it showing up more and more mainboards and complete systems of different manufacturers in the popular online stores. But what exactly behind Brazos? Finally nothing other than a dual-core CPU, which is paired with a Radeon HD 6310 to Intel’s “Atom”...

Foreword The idea of the last Pentium 4 processor is back now again over three months. Three months in which Intel almost all benchmarks over the competition could – dominate games as well as applications felt extremely comfortable with 2,53GHz on the Pentium 4. This was no surprise, had increased but finally with the idea of this processor of also the front side to 533 MHz Bus (FSB), which is responsible for the communication between...

There are corporate strategies… … that appear to be us not quite convincing at first glance. This put something over a week for the umpteenth time AMD on the day. But we remember: even to launch of the Athlon64 FX-51 and Athlon64 you had held himself back 3200 + with samples of the processor, and there were internationally only the umgelabelten and trimmed to two channels of HyperTransport Opteron 148, the FX-51, directly from AMD...

Foreword There is not an issue in which opinions further apart and tempers more heat than in the comparison between Intel and AMD processors. Often this but too happy to taken simply unaware of the facts and programmable features of a candidate, but most insist on a sometimes emotional position that they represented by all means. Exactly this to change and to bring some light into the darkness we looked closer so the top models of Intel and...

Foreword AMD has left plenty of time to still above to expand its own processor portfolio. End of may which came 64 X 2 4800 + 2.4 GHz on the market until now fastest dual-core processor, the Athlon, followed in June 2005 the mandatory speed upgrade which Athlon 64-FX series on 2.8 GHz and AMD’s world was back in order. But something had changed for the buyer. With the introduction of the dual-core processors, it turned out that you...

Prolog The days are green with colder and shorter, the leaves and fall from the trees – the holiday season is approaching. Inexorably approaching the venerable time of the year, where the beloved servant of computing finally experienced a Frischzellenkur. A new CPU is likely this probably also 2002 again at the top are the wish list – whether from free will or just an ‘accident’. But still the many processors, which...

Day 1 This year Intel would like to work trend Forum in San Jose California with its annual Intel Developer for the entire computer industry. Traditionally, you started this leisurely in a week full of technical lectures, presentations and demonstrations. The first day this was a sign of convergence of computing and communication, as well as the multimedia home. ALLROUNDER: PXA800F and PXA262 In the context of Intel, for example, a...