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The article features the dual-core central processing units developed by AMD and Intel. The 3.2 GHz Pentium Extreme Edition 840 from Intel is initially sold for $1100. Intel's cheapest dual-core processing is the 2.8 GHz Pentium D 820. AMD launched its 2.4 GHz Athlon 64 X2 4800+ processor in August 2005 which costs $900. Following this, AMD has launched several more-affordable dual-core chips, including the Athlon 64 X2 3800+. The dual-core processors were compared and contrasted and the results showed that the processors developed by AMD posses superior performance over other processors. INSET: HIGH-END VS. LOW-END DUAL-CORE SYSTEMS.

The article reports on the evolution of x86 microprocessor which was introduced by Intel Corp. The x86 family has progressed from desktop personal computers to servers, portable computers and supercomputers. The term x86 refers to the set of machine language instructions that certain microprocessors from Intel and a few other companies can execute. X86 processors beginning with the 8086 and including the 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486 and various Pentium models right down to today's multicore chips and processors for mobile applications have incorporated a growing x86 instruction set.

This article reports that Apple Computer Inc. was moving away from International Business Machines (IBM) Corp.'s PowerPC chips, which had powered every Mac model for years is moving toward Intel processors from Intel Corp. It was announced by Steve Jobs, an official from IBM in June 2005. It was a big deal and the fact that he gave the speech at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in front of the very people who write the programs that make the Mac what it is. Developers would need to invest some time and effort in making Universal binaries for the latest Mac transition. By making his announcement when Jobs was giving developers a head start, he promised that the first Intel Macs would be out by June 2006. To help developers with their work, Apple offered to rent them a Developer Transition Kit, a Pentium-based Mac system. Many of the developers who have already released Universal applications are reaping the benefits of heeding Steve Jobs's advice. When outlining the plan to move to Intel processors, Jobs urged the developers who had not adopted Apple's Xcode programming tools to do so.

The article evaluates several laptop computers using Pentium M microprocessors from Intel. The Pentium M microprocessors come in 1.7, 1.8, and 2 gigahertz speeds, and boast several improvements over the prior generation of Pentium M chips. The laptop computers tested were Inspiron 8600C from Dell, Compaq Business Notebook Nc6000 from Hewlett-Packard (HP), 450XL from Gateway, and ThinkPad T42 from IBM. As expected, the Inspiron 5600C and Compac Nc6000 notebooks, which had the fastest processors, earned the top scores on PC WorldBench4. The four new laptops completed both the AutoCAD and Photoshop tests in about three-quarters of the average time that three Pentium M laptops tested earlier took on the same tests. Battery life is good. Three of the new units lasted between 4 and 5 hours, and the HP over 6 hours. The Dell and Gateway are desktop replacements with big screens. The Dell weighs 8.3 pounds, and the Gateway 7.5 pounds. For their part, the mainstream HP and IBM units have 14.1 inch screens, and with their AC adapters, they weigh 6.6 and 5.7 pounds, respectively. The latest crop of Pentium M systems offers a terrific blend of performance and battery life for a $100 to $200 premium over previous models.

Focuses on Rise Technology, a central processing unit (CPU) manufacturer located in Santa Clara, California. Efforts of Rise Technology to build low cost CPUs and sell them at low prices; Competition with Intel Corp.; Details of Rise Technology's MP6 computer chip; The competitive aspects of the chip.

The article reports that Apple Inc.'s recent purchase of microprocessor design firm P.A. Semi Inc. has triggered a wave of speculation over what the computer maker plans to do with its newly acquired asset. Apple bought the 150-person company to utilize its engineering expertise and experience in developing low-power chips, in order to better work with suppliers such as Intel Corp. In other words, members of the team that created the PWRficient processor to appear in Apple's future ventures with Intel and other component suppliers has contributed significantly. As Apple has proven with previous acquisitions, it is the engineers that count.

This article offers news briefs related to the computer industry. The European Commission has accused Intel Corp. of abusing its dominant position in the micro-processor market to exclude its rival Advanced Micro Devices, in breach of European antitrust rules. According to an announcement by Quark Inc., students worldwide who acquire their desktop publishing software QuarkXPress under educational licenses can continue to use the software commercially after they've graduated.

The article reports that several computer makers are overclocking personal computers at their factories and covering them with a standard warranty. The move is prompted by Intel's Core 2 Duo processor which makes overclocking safer. An overclocked personal computer can provide better performance than one left at its factory settings. Companies such as ABS, Falcon Northwest, and Voodoo offer over-clocked personal computers with warranties, and say demand for them is rising. Gateway has reportedly discussed such an offering.

The article features the 64-bit computing systems launched by AMD and Intel in the summer of 2005. Sempron central processors which are developed by AMD range from $60 to $129 each unit. While the Celeron processors manufactured by Intel range from $145 to $351. Tests were conducted to assess the performance of the processors installed on two machines developed by Polywell. The test results indicated that these processors will not significantly improve the performance of personal computers, especially the low-end computers.

This article looks at the plans of Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) in the 64-bit desktop processor market in 2005. Intel will make its foray into the 64-bit desktop processor arena by May 2005, with a new line of high-end Pentium 4 central processing units (CPU) based on the company's Extended Memory 64 Technology, according to Bill Kirby, the company's director of desktop marketing and strategic planning. The new product line, which will come with several silicon-level enhancements, including a larger L2 cache, will carry the 64-bit capabilities to its existing 500-series Pentium 4 CPU, as well as to its 300-series budget Celeron D processors. Though Intel expects to offer a top-to-bottom desktop lineup of 64-bit CPU this year, it has no plans to market a 64-bit-capable mobile processor. AMD, which began selling its Athlon 64 desktop CPU in September 2003 and later added the Mobile Athlon 64, is set to launch a new, second-generation 64-bit notebook CPU called the Turion by midyear. AMD plans to roll out its first dual-core desktop processors in the second half of the year. The company does not expect to offer a dual-core mobile CPU this year, however. Intel intends to launch its dual-core desktop processors sometime after midyear, and it expects to begin rolling out mobile products by year's end with a full-scale launch in early 2006.

Presents news briefs on the computer industry in the U.S. as of July 2004. Microsoft Corp. is offering a 64-bit version of Windows for AMD and Intel desktop central processing units. It will offer nearly all the features of the Windows XP Pro when it ships at the end of the year. However the 64-bit operating system will be available only pre-installed on computers and through system builders. In a separate news, Intel intends to ship its first dual-core desktop processor in 2005. The company recently stopped plans for Tejas, which was to replace the Pentium 4, to focus on an unnamed dual-core chip first slated for 2006. Industry analyst Kevin Krewell says that dual-core processors should offer substantially better performance than single-core chips.

Evaluates the 1.7 GHz Intel Celeron processor. Contention that personal-computer users should avoid the processor; How the 128 KB cache hinders the speed of the 1.7-GHz Celeron system tested; Advice for consumers.

The article reports on the development of x86 family of microprocessors, designed by Intel Corp. Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, cites advancements such as hardware support for memory management and virtualization that have been added to the chip and refined over the years. According to Todd Mowry, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and an Intel research consultant, one of the most promising approaches today to exploiting the parallelism in multicore chips is the use of something called software transactional memory.

The article presents trends in microprocessors in 2006. The year marked the growth of green central processing unit, the trickle down of multicore and an industry-altering merger that put coprocessors and the marketing of AMD back in business. The x86 dominated the year, with Intel delivering microarchitecture for desktop and mobile computers. The improvement in funneled bus design allowed Intel to raise its bus clock to 1066MHz and to adopt a new serial memory interface called Fully Buffered DIMM. Intel has also become the first to market with hardware-assisted virtualization. AMD has coined a term megatasking, to describe a working style enabled by its massively parrallelized architecture.

The article reports on several developments relevant to the computer industry in the U.S. as of July 25, 2005. Intel Corp. has taken the wraps off two new Itanium 2 processors that should tide the company over until the expected launch of its first dual-core Itanium processor later in 2005. International Business Machines returned to financial form in the second quarter of 2005, reporting income growth and solid revenue after scaring financial analysts by falling short of expectations in its first quarter in 2005.

Presents news briefs on the computer industry as of October 25, 1999. Plans of Intel Corp. to release its Coppermine Pentium III microprocessor; Contract received by AT&T Corp. and VeriSign Inc. from the Access Certificates for Electronic Services of the General Service Administration; Planned integration of the bill management service of Cyberbill Inc. into the Quicken.com Web site of Intuit Inc.

The article offers world news briefs related to computer industry in 2009. At the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, China, Intel Corp. launched a variant on its Nehalem server processor, code-named Jasper Forest. Michael Manos was appointed as senior vice president of technical services of Digital Realty Trust Inc. Cisco Systems Inc. will acquire Tidal Software Inc., an application management software developer.

The article offers news briefs related to the computer industry in the U.S. Microsoft Corp. patched a security hole in its Server Message Block protocol which was first reported in 2001. Spam volumes have declined by more than 40 percent after Internet service providers' cut off the hosting company McColo Corp. from the web site. Intel Corp. released its Penrym processors, a high-end line of Xeon and Core 2 chips.

The article offers news briefs concerning the computer industry in the U.S. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has already started its investigation with chip maker Intel Corp. concerning antitrust issues. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has launched Turion X2 Ultra, a processor designed for laptops. Sun Microsystems Inc. announced to market 2.5 inches of solid-state disk drives in 2008 and a 3.5-inch by 2009.

The article offers news briefs in the United States. Intel Corp. slashed more than half of the prices of some desktop microprocessors which raised its battle with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. A missing government laptop containing personal data of more than half a million New York state workers was found. Microsoft Corp. closed its acquisition of Whale Communications Ltd. and established its plan to integrate Whale's products into its security programs. A computer system glitch that connects Northwest Airlines Inc. airport systems and Worldspan Technologies global distribution system delayed more than 200 flights in the United States.

The article analyzes the strategy of Dell for dealing with the possible collapse of the price support system of Intel, its supplier of processors. The author thinks the reason AMD and Intel processors are so expensive is that Intel has partnered with original equipment manufacturers (OEM) to support prices and margins by means of incentives and discounts. But Intel will have to deal with customers on a simple and transparent tiered mark-up system as AMD and the attention drawn to Intel by the antitrust case between AMD and Intel pushes along the PC market's slide toward commoditization. When an OEM is afforded disproportionately favorable pricing, the whole price support system will collapse. Dell would be greatly affected if the incentives provided by Intel disappears. Because of this, Dell plans to position itself more firmly within the services sector.

This article reports on the release of relabeled versions of Intel Corp.'s Pentium M mobile processors by unauthorized distributors in China. These distributors are trying to pass them off as chips with better performance and higher prices. But Intel Corp. contended that the problem is not widespread. The processors had been distributed to computer makers as engineering samples and were not intended to be sold to end users.

This article reports on the plan of the hardware and software vendors regarding Intel Corp.'s Itanium microprocessors. The vendors plan to announce the formation of an industry group that will work to broaden the processor's adoption. The Portland, Oregon-based Itanium Solutions Alliance (ISA) includes systems vendors such as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Unisys Corp., as well as Intel and software vendors such as Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., and SAP AG. The ISA wants to expand the use of Itanium by helping other vendors port their applications to the chip's EPIC architecture.

This article reports on the plan of Intel Corp. (IC) to release new dual-core chips for desktops, notebooks, and servers based on a common power-saving architecture. The architecture carries forward some of the technologies found within the Pentium 4's Netburst architecture, such as 64-bit technology and virtualization features. However, the design laid out by IC has much more in common with the Pentium M processor family and its focus on saving power.

This article presents news briefs related to the computer industry. Red Hat Inc. said it will create an independent foundation to oversee its Fedora open-source software initiative. Red Hat will still provide financial and engineering support for Fedora, but it hopes the Fedora Foundation will attract broader participation in projects. Electronic Data Systems Corp. may be forced to write down as much as $166 million in its second fiscal quarter due to problems with an undisclosed project. The ERP market continues to consolidate with Lawson Software Inc.'s acquisition of Intentia International AB for $480 million in stock. Intel Corp. has shed more light on its forthcoming dual-core mobile chip, confirming that the Yonah processor's two cores will share a single bank of cache memory. Yonah, the dual-core version of Intel's Pentium M processor, is slated to ship in the first quarter of 2006. Intel said Yonah has an integrated design that shares storage and power management resources within the chip.

Intel unveiled the next generation of its Xeon processor, the company's first chip to include Extended Memory 64 Technology, which allows the processor to run both 32-bit and 64-bit software. A number of hardware vendors, including Dell and Hewlett-Packard, have thrown their weight behind the chip by detailing plans to support it in forthcoming servers and workstations. Intel in July 2004 also released a chip set for workstations based on the Xeon processor. The E7525 includes a faster 800 megahertz system bus, DDR2 memory, and Intel's next-generation PCI Express interconnect. The Xeon, which had been codenamed Nocona, comes more than a year after Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices issued its Opteron processor. Extending Intel's 32-bit x86 processor instructions so they can handle 64-bit computing, Xeon's approach is similar to Opteron's. Although Opteron and Nocona are expected to run the same software, they have significant differences. Intel have taken a different approach to how they balance the system overall. Intel chose to go with a faster front-side bus, faster subsystem and PCI Express. Nocona and Opteron systems will have different designs and use different chip sets, but for most users, the difference between the two processors will not be visible.

The article presents news briefs related to the computer industry in the U.S. as of June 7, 2004. The Jboss application server and MySQL database both got a boost from Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) last week, when HP began offering technical support for the two open source projects. HP has entered into partnership agreements with TheJboss Group and MySQL, the companies behind the two open source efforts. Meanwhile, Intel Corp. expanded its roster of mobile processors by unveiling its first 90-nanometer chips designed specifically for large notebooks that offer greater performance at the expense of mobility. The Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processors are designed for notebooks that feature large screens, full-size keyboards and multiple drives. Intel also released a new Celeron M processor for budget notebooks. In another sign that personal digital assistants (PDA) have lost the buzz they once enjoyed, Sony Corp. has decided it will not launch any new Clie PDA in the U.S. market for the rest of the year. According to Sony officials, the company is reassessing the direction of the PDA market. Product development and sales of Clie handhelds will continue, however, for the Japanese market.

The article deals with the development of 64-bit central processing units (CPU) by microprocessor vendors in the U.S. as of April 2004. Intel has been the microprocessor industry's leader from the beginning. The company began 64-bit development in 1991, and the first systems with 64-bit Itanium CPU shipped in 2001. Unfortunately, Intel developers early on opted for an architecture that is completely different from the common x86 standard. The resulting platform has to resort to an inefficient emulation mode to run 32-bit applications. The industry-leading vendor has misread what the market wanted, and the lack of true 32-bit compatibility caused the Itanium to languish. Approximately 5.3 million servers were shipped worldwide in 2003, and of those 4.67 million had the 32-bit x86 architecture. A breakthrough came in April 2003, when Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) introduced its AMD64 platform and the Opteron series of 64-bit server CPU. AMD followed up the Opteron in September 2003 by announcing the Athlon 64 processor family for desktops and mobile computing. In response, Intel announced in February 2004 that within a few months it would ship new versions of its Xeon server CPU that could handle 64-bit applications and operating systems.

Discusses the competition between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices in the microprocessor market. Sales of the two companies in 2002; Description of the Opteron processor from AMD; Benefits of competition for buyers.

Reports on the efforts of several computer companies to launch high-end corporate systems based on microprocessors. Development of Itanium 2 chip from Intel Corp.; Itanium 2 servers of Blue Bell that delivers mainframe-class performance at a lower cost; Key features of Orion server lines by Unisys.

Presents an update on the computer industry as of October 15, 2001. Result of the performance testing made on the processors of Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.; Inclusion of Kevin Mitnick, a computer hacker to the television program 'Alias.'

Presents news briefs from the computer industry as of July 24, 2000. Release of the upgraded version of the iMacs and Power Macs from Apple Computer; Delay in the launching of the Itanium processor from Intel Corp.; Availability of software and consulting assistance for the Corporate Yahoo electronic services portal announced by Hewlett-Packard.

Presents news briefs from the computer industry as of May 1, 2000. Decision of Intel Corp. to phase out processor serial numbers; Approval of the pending merger of MCI WorldCom with Sprint Corp. by MCI shareholders; Employees dismissed by Cisco Systems in connection with a kickback deal.

Presents news briefs from the computer industry as of February 7, 2000. Microprocessor for mobile computers to be unveiled by Intel Corp.; Move of Palm Computing to reduce prices on its lineup of handheld computers; Features of the open-source sendmail 8.10 software unveiled by Sendmail.

Expects Intel Corp. to emerge as a leader in the computer industry, with or without the blessing of its most familiar partner, Microsoft Corp. Establishment of key relationships with Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Digital and Sequent; Release of the hybrid 64-bit Merced chip; Goal to have Intel chips inside high-end Web sites, data marts and thin clients; Approach to integrating television with data.