CPUs
The curtains are drawn and it’s almost showtime for Qualcomm and its Snapdragon X SoC team. After first detailing the SoC nearly 8 months ago at the company’s most recent Snapdragon Summit, and making numerous performance disclosures in the intervening months, the Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus launch is nearly upon us. The chips have already shipped to Qualcomm’s laptop partners, and the first laptops are set to ship next week. In the last 8 months Qualcomm has made a lot of interesting claims for their high-performance Windows-on-Arm SoC – many of which will be put to the test in the coming weeks. But beyond all the performance claims and bluster amidst what is shaping up to be a highly competitive environment for...
Budget CPU Upgrades: Intel's Celeron 766
Having just recently released the Pentium 4, Intel is still better known for their presence in sub-$1000 PCs in today's market. While it's easy to recommend AMD's Duron...
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/26/2000Intel Mobile CPU & Chipset Roadmap - November 2000
Intel may be having a hard time on the desktop front, facing a lot of competition from other chip producers. One area that Intel has yet to be challenged...
0 by Matthew Witheiler on 11/23/2000AMD CPU & Chipset Roadmap - November 2000
Three days ago we brought you a glimpse of Intel's plans for 2001. Now we're following up the coverage with AMD's roadmap for the next year and on...
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/21/2000Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz & 1.5GHz
The Pentium 4 is here. Intel has poured all of their efforts into the creation of this, their first new micro-architecture in the past 5 years. However...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/20/2000AMD Socket-A 133MHz FSB/DDR Overclocking Guide
Armed with the ability to adjust the clock multiplier, voltage, and now the FSB of the Athlon and Duron CPUs we have in the lab, watch what we've been...
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/1/2000AMD's 760 Chipset: DDR for the Athlon is here
The future of the Athlon platform is here, the AMD 760 is the first Athlon chipset to support DDR SDRAM as well as the 266MHz FSB.
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/30/2000AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.2GHz & Duron 800MHz
AMD introduces two new clock speeds for both of their processor lines. With the Pentium III 1.13GHz delayed until next year, and the Celeron crawling because of its...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/17/2000AMD Duron 750
For the first time since the Intel Celeron was launched, AMD has a value processor that can not only beat the Celeron in terms of performance but can also...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/5/2000Intel’s 1.13GHz CPU Recalled – Is Intel resorting to desperate measures?
With the 1.13GHz Pentium III facing a full recall, it's time to take a look at what events lead up to this recall and what eventually proved that a...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/29/2000AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.1GHz
The Thunderbird is back, this time sporting a 1.1GHz operating frequency, see how it stands up to Intel's latest 1.13GHz Pentium III offering in our review.
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/28/2000Intel's NetBurst Architecture - The Pentium 4's innards get a name
With Intel's annual Fall IDF just a couple of days away, we are giving a quick sneak peak as to what you can expect Intel to reveal about the...
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/20/2000AMD’s Voyage into the 64-bit Arena: x86-64 Revealed
Today AMD released the first public documentation regarding their x86-64 architecture and we took this opportunity to have a look at the architecture behind the K8 as well as...
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/10/2000Intel Pentium III 1.13GHz (1133MHz)
While they weren't the first to hit the 1GHz mark, Intel is the first to release a CPU that clocks in faster than 1GHz with their new 1.13GHz Pentium...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/31/2000VIA Apollo Pro 133A with Dual Processors
For quite a while, Intel was the only manufacturer of mainstream chipsets that also offerred dual processor (SMP) capable chipsets. Well times are changing and after successfully stealing...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/13/2000AMD Thunderbird/Duron Investigation & Overclocking Discussion
Using a Socket-A motherboard we modified in house to allow for clock multiplier adjustments we are finally able to bring to you all the performance of every commercially available...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/12/2000Intel 815 Chipset
Intel finally released a 133MHz FSB chipset that 1) doesn't use RDRAM and 2) allows for an external AGP graphics accelerator. The i815 is upon us and it's...
3 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/27/2000Intel Celeron 700
With AMD's Duron dominating the value market, does Intel's "new" Celeron have the same appeal it once did? Take a look at our review of Intel's latest as...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/26/2000AMD Duron
The next piece of AMD's processor puzzle is here, the Duron. While intended to be a member of their value line of desktop processors, we confirmed what everyone...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/19/2000AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1 GHz / 800 MHz
For the past few months, Intel has enjoyed the advantage of high speed, on-die cache on their fastest CPU's, while AMD suffered with ever decreasing cache speeds as their...
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/4/2000Intel Pentium III 933
Two months after the release of the 1GHz Pentium III, Intel is back to fill the gap with the release of their 933MHz part. Read on as we...
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/24/2000
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