Intel Launches New Xeon CPUs, Mac Pro Refresh Next

Intel has unveiled the world's first chip capable of reaching one teraflop - one trillion calculations per second - although it does so with the help of "more than" 50 cores, Intel didn't say exactly how many. It is amazing - and...

Intel has announced the first large-scale deployment of its Many Integrated Cores - MIC - architecture devices, with the University of Texas taking delivery of the first production run to build a 10 petaflop supercomputer.Dubbed...

Intel has officially announced its next-generation product for the high performance computing crowd: Knights Corner, the latest implementation of the company's 'Many Integrated Cores' architecture. We caught up with Intel at the...

Intel has already started sweeping the path for the entrance of its new six-core Xeon X5690 chips, as sample CPUs have just started surfacing.  In particular, an engineering sample has already found its way it into the...

24 hours after AMD Launched its 12-core processor, archrival Intel has unveiled its new Xeon 6500 and 7500 processor series that's build on the updated Nehalem EX architecture. The processors, which have up to eight cores, will...

Intel today introduced the eight-core Xeon 7500 server chip, based on its Nehalem EX chip and built on a 45nm process. Intel said the chip represents the "biggest performance jump" its Xeon line has yet seen. The firm claims an...

Leading technology vendor IBM has updated its Intel-based server portfolio by dishing out seven new servers under its System X line of enterprise servers based on the memory enhancing eX5 chipset. The server roll out by the Big...

We've seen integrated graphics from Intel for several years, integrated into the chipsets of value-priced desktop and notebook PCs. Intel's 3D rendering capability has never been superior to that of discrete GPUs such as Nvidia's...

Apple has quietly added a few components to its Mac Pro which could make the fastest x86 compatible workstation in the world although prospective customers are likely to be paying well over the odds for the privilege of owning...

In a bid to take on AMD's new “Istanbul” Opteron six-shooter processor, Intel on Tuesday announced that it will come up with a new a server chip that includes up to eight processor cores by the end of this...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc. has spruced up its Opteron processor range with the addition of a new server processor, tagged as “Istanbul”, which will include both six cores as well as a direct connect...

It seems that in order to make the most out of the Intel’s newly released Xeon Series 5500 processors, Sun Microsystems has decided to extend the features of its Solaris operating systems.  The company has announced...

Apple has introduced an updated Quad Core Mac Pro model as well as a dual socket, Octo-core Mac Pro workstation, both with Intel's new Xeon Nehalem Processors. The firm claims that the new processors will provide nearly twice...

As a part of its initiative to reduce the environmental impacts of its products, Intel has launched a new range of Xeon processors which the company claims are free of halogen. These new processors incidentally use Hafnium based...

Mac Pro completes Apple's transition to Intel processors and offers a system that is up to twice as fast as previous G5 desktop products; and one of the fastest desktop computers on the market. This refurbished Mac Pro is...