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GPUs Going Strong in Q3, Up 22.5%

21 November 2008 Bob Snyder CPUs and Coolers

For Q3, the graphics processor market grew 22.5% as more than 111 million GPUs, were shipped (versus 91m in the same period last year), says John Peddie Research. Compared to 94m units shipped in Q2, shipments increased nearly 18%, the largest Q-to-Q growth in six years.

GPUs were inside more than 33% of all PCs shipped in Q3.. AMD and Intel were the biggest winners with Y-to-Y growth of 22.8% and 81.4%, respectively. Nvidia saw shipments decline by 6.4%. The biggest losers were small vendors Matrox, Continue reading...

Processor Wars, Another Battle

20 March 2008 Bob Snyder CPUs and Coolers

AMD’s quad-core Barcelona chip will become generally available in April, but Intel plays trump with a 6-core processor (Dunnington) to come in 2H 2008.

"We've gone from dual to quad-core while maintaining the same thermal envelope," says AMD. "This is more than just quad-core. It is a significant re-architecture of Opteron, the most significant since we've introduced it."

Intel disclosed several multi-core projects: "Tukwila," world's first 2 billion Continue reading...

Intel’s Atom Line of Mobile Processors

11 March 2008 Bob Snyder CPUs and Coolers

Intel's Atom Video Intel officially renames two chips targeted at small, portable computers. "Silverthorne" and "Diamondville" are now part of the company's Atom line.

With Atom, Intel is feeding demand for a new category of low-cost, e-centric mobile computing devices and thin-client desktops will grow substantially over the next several years.