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Video of  a pre-release Nehalem-EX Processor shows its capabilities running an NYSE trading simulation.

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The new Atom platform for netbooks/nettops is called Pine Trail. Pine Trail refers to the combination of CPU and chipset. The CPU in this case is the next version of the Atom core. Still based on Intel’s 45nm process, this new Atom (codenamed Pineview) brings both the memory controller and GPU core on-die. The current [...]

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“Developers of low latency trading and market data applications are likely to benefit from new Intel Xeon 5500 Series microprocessors introduced today. Based on Intel’s new Nehalem architecture, the chips are expected to offer much improved performance and less power consumption compared to current chips, especially in the areas of multi-threading, memory access, interconnect technology [...]

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Aaron Tersteeg from Intel has posted some extensive links on the topic of threading for multicore. If you at all are involved in programming for multicore I would urge you to check this out.

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It’s like Ali V Frasier the all over again except neither opponent seems to be able to deliver the knockout blow. AMD and Intel get set for battle again with the latest in the chip wars. 
“If Istanbul is introduced in the early part of H2 2009, AMD will have a small window of opportunity of [...]

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Through January ‘09 GigaSpaces  conducted a joint project with Sun and Intel. This was to investigate A Scale-Up Benchmark on the Sun Fire X4450 multi core servers which use Intel Xeon 7460 processors (4 CPUs with six cores each) and the GigaSpaces XAP middleware. Focus was on on application scalability and latency. The testing concentrated on  mission [...]

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On Tuesday 10th Febuary Intel demonstrated its first 32 nm processors.The desktop and mobile Westmere chips integrate a 45 nm graphics die on the same package and will ship late this year. This ia a year ahead of the equivalent AMD chipset. AMD plans to ship its first 32 nm CPUs in 2011

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In a scoop for Intel, it looks like the next generation games consoles will have Intel Larrabee and not Nvidia. This means that whole host of programmers will get up to speed in programming for the Larrabee which is exactly what Intel no doubt intended. This is just one more step on the road to Intel [...]

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Intel has plans to talk about  their eight-core Xeon processor  in San Francisco at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference next month. This will be the first insight into Intel’s  first eight-core chip. The processor may well be the Nehalem EP processor,which is designed for dual-socket servers and workstations.

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This looks interesting. Intel have announced QuickThread, a run-time library for writing multi-threaded applications. It works in 32 bit and 64 bit environments and with Fortran as well as C++. QuickThread* is affinity capable supporting thread affinity, data binding affinity and NUMA support.

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