New PC Chips

[Will E Worm]

Intel Unveils New PC Chips

Intel Corp. demonstrated its latest gains in power efficiency and computer speed with its new generation of semiconductors Thursday, in a move to bring better graphics to laptops and more features to ATMs and other business machines.

In a presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show that featured an appearance by U.S. soccer great Mia Hamm, Mr. Maloney demonstrated new features that allow tasks running on PCs to be passed between different segments of the processors, known as cores.

"You get the power efficiency and you get the graphics," said Sean Maloney, head of Intel's chip product business. He said the new line of Intel's Core brand, which primarily targets mainstream laptops and PCs, also contains 12 new chips for embedded uses, including digital signs and banking machines with facial-recognition capabilities.

Intel's new chip line comes as the chip company works to expand into mobile devices and other markets outside the traditional PC space, which it dominates.

After settling a long-running legal squabble with rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. late last year, the company is now battling new rivals that make chips based on a different design licensed by ARM Holdings PLC.

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New chips from Intel highlight its lead over AMD

Intel Corp. is rolling out new computer chips Thursday that highlight the company's lead over Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in shrinking the circuitry inside its processors.

Condensing the tiny parts of a chip is critical for adding features and reducing costs. Consumers see the difference in better performance and lower computer prices.

Intel's new Core chips, being unveiled at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, feature parts whose average width is 32 nanometers, or 32 billionths of a meter. Other upgrades include features to save energy and help speed graphics processing.

AMD's 32-nanometer chips won't appear in personal computers until 2011. It has argued that circuitry size isn't as important as performance and graphics.

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Shouldn't there be more than two CPU companies?

 

[Will E Worm]

Nvidia Says They Want to Build an x86 CPU

During a Q&A session at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco earlier this week, Nvidia revealed intentions of getting into the x86 business, saying it was a matter of 'when', and not 'if.'

"I think some time down the road it makes sense to take the same level of integration that we've done with Tegra," said Michael Hara, Nvidia's senior VP of investor relations and communications. "Tegra is by any definition a complete computer on a chip, and the requirements of that market are such that you have to be very low power, very small, but highly efficient. So in that particular state it made a lot of sense to take that approach, and someday it's going to make sense to take the same approach in the x86 market as well."

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[~~whimsy~~]

Go Nvidia

 

[Loogan]

Soon enough, with any luck, it won't matter which...

http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/26002/

 

[somebadlemonade]

well lets see intel's mainstream desktop chips are spread accross 2 sockets LGA1156 and LGA1366
with LGA1156 getting core i3, i5 and lower-end i7. and LGA1366 getting higher-end core i7 and later on i9 (hex(6) core CPU)
AMD had one mainstream desktop socket, am3, which is backwards compatible with AM2+ and occasionally AM2 depending on the motherboard and chipsets
so people that get a LGA1156 are kind of topped out at quad cores (not really a problem is intel keeps making decent chips to put in those motherboards) and people that get LGA1366 can get a CPU for under $200
and people that get a decent AM3 motherboard can eventually get a hex core CPU and drop it into their rig with just a bios update
whether Intel actually has the best CPUs isn't in question, but they are segmenting their client base which can alienate people that like to upgrade after they start with a light build

personally i like how AMD tries to keep everything stuck to one socket till they need to push a new socket to keep the CPU from being bottlenecked by the interface

the buttom line is
Intel wants to make money by making people buy a different motherboard(they sell the manufacturer chipsets) everytime you want to get a new and better CPU
AMD wants to make money but keeping the same socket alive as long as possible to sell the most CPUs

i honestly don't have a preference, since i run an AMD phenom ii x4 955 and i told my brother to get a intel core i7

 

[shayd]

Shouldn't there be more than two CPU companies?

There are. And they're just about as worthwhile as their lack of recognition would suggest.