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Intel's upcoming Haswell CPUs

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Intel's upcoming Haswell CPUs are expected next month.<br />
This will include 6 new Core CPUs along with 2 Celeron CPUs and 3 Pentium CPUs.<br />
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The Core CPUs are Core i7-4790, Core i5-4690, Core i5-4490, Core i3-4360/4350/4150.<br />
The Pentium CPUs are G3450, G3440, G3240.<br />
The Celeron CPUs are G1850 and G1840.<br />
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Source :- <a href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20140324PD213.html" target="_blank">Digitimes</a>.

Intel Logo Intel's upcoming Haswell CPUs are expected next month. This will include 6 new Core CPUs along with 2 Celeron CPUs an...

NVIDIA Project Denver: 8-core 64bit ARM and 256 Kepler CUDA cores

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The information we have at hand is that Project Denver CPU core is looking to be very much aligned with T40, i.e. "Tegra 4" i.e. Wayne. According to internal schedule, Wayne silicon is going to be taped out in the next couple of weeks, with developers getting their hands on prototype silicon in December 2011.Wayne silicon is consisted out of four ARM cores (NVIDIA is not disclosing the core type, teasing that it might be either A15 or PD) and up to 64 GPU cores. <br />
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During the same month (December 2011), NVIDIA plans to tape out the  first silicon based on Project Denver, which combines up to 8-core  custom NVIDIA-ARM 64-bit CPU with a GeForce 600-class "Kepler" GPU. The company  had a lot of issues in development of a CPU and the general consensus is  that NVIDIA is take a conservative approach with a single 28nm PD CPU  design and the 28nm Kepler-based GPU. <br />
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The interesting bit that we heard is that  Project Denver is geared towards "full PhysX support". <br />
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Unlike AMD's APU design, where CPU and GPU parts connect to the memory controller at the speed of DDR3 memory, Project Denver is looking for a more direct communication between CPU and GPU cores, i.e. relying on the best GPU design can offer: high-bandwidth connection. NVIDIA is not taking the conventional route with L1, L2 and L3 cache design, since the GPUs have 1TB/s+ connections to its cache memory, similar approach is rumored for Denver core design as well. Just like in the GPUs, memory controller takes the larger portion of the die and connects CUDA cores with CPU cores and CPU will have priority access to the bandwidth needed.<br />
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NVIDIA doesn't want to clock it to heavens' high, but rather to squeeze each IPC (Instruction Per Clock) as possible. Still, it is realistic to expect 2.0-2.5GHz for CPU and similar clock for the GPU part, with memory controller and the rest of the silicon working at a lower rate to keep everything well fed. However, NVIDIA needs around 10%-25% of the total bandwidth available for the CPU portion, keeping the GPU well fed with system memory.<br />
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The design for the motherboards for notebooks, desktops and servers is also under way, with PCIe 3.0 being touted as the main connectivity feature, alongside USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps. According to the information given, nV is going to attack all remaining fronts - light notebooks will be covered by lower-scaled Tegra 3 and 4 (smartphone/tablet/netbook/t'n'l notebooks), more powerful silicon will be used for lighter-use notebooks and desktops, while the server play is probably the most interesting strategy.<br />
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From one side, within one generation of PD CPU designs, NV wants to enter the blade market and offer a powerful GPU, but from another, the company wants to get rid of the demands for Intel or AMD x86 cores in their Tesla business (one Tesla GPGPU requires one x86 CPU - Xeon or Opteron for "feeding"). Removing X86 from that equation will significantly boost the profit outlook, just like AMD and Intel are enjoying charging an arm and a leg for the same silicon used in their desktop/notebook computers.<br />
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Source <a href="http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2011/7/18/1st-silicon-with-nvidia-project-denver-is-an-8-core-arm2c-256-cuda-core-apu.aspx">here</a>.

Nvidia The information we have at hand is that Project Denver CPU core is looking to be very much aligned with T40, i.e. "Tegra 4...

AMD launches lLano APU A8 and A6-3850-3650 for the Desktop

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After releasing their APU market for laptops , AMD has introduced its first 2 APU (Accelerated Processing Units) of A-Series family computer market for desktop models A6 and A8-3850-3650, which promise high performance integrated graphics on the same processor.<br />
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Although the A-Series family includes more models and their specifications and features and we have detailed in previous notes, it is not until June 30 now that AMD officially introduced and initially these two models.<br />
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The A6 and A8-3850-3650 are manufactured in a 32nm GPU and incorporate quad-core x86 with support for DirectX 11 GPU for Integrated controller, dual channel DDR3 memory with support for graphics technology combined (Integrated + discrete) Dual AMD Graphics Technology <br />
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 These APUs are for new plates FM1 socket (905 pin) we have detailed in previous notes and incorporate the AMD A75, next to the APU same part of the AMD platform for desktops Lynx midrange as come for the high ground FX-8000/6000/4000 AMD (Bulldozer).<i></i><br />
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The A8-3850 is priced at $ 135 , has four cores at 2.9GHz with Radeon HD graphics 6550D (400 Stram Processors) at 600MHz, 4MB L2 cache and a TDP of 100W. For his part, A6-3650 model will cost $ 115and has a design with four cores to 2.6GHz with Radeon HD graphics 3530D (320 Stream Processors) to the GPU to 443Mhz, 4MB L2 cache and TDP of 100W the same.<br />
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These APU today released to the press (reviews), but will be available in stores on July 3. Later A8 models launched AMD-3800 (2.4GHz / 2.7GHz CT) and A6-3600 (2.1Ghz/2.4 CT) have support for Core Turbo and have a TDP of just 65W, the model will then A6-3500 (2172 TC 0.4) .<br />
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Are also scheduled dual-core models A4-3400 (2.7Ghz/65W) A4-3300 (2.5Ghz/65W) that come with graphics Radeon HD 6410D with 160 Stream Processors with 600Mhz and 443Mhz GPU A respectively.<br />
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Not to miss<br />
<ul><li>A8 = 4 CPU-cores, 400-core GPU (Radeon HD 6550D)</li>
<li>A6 = 4 CPU-cores, 320-core GPU (Radeon HD 6530D)</li>
<li>A4 = 2 CPU-cores, 240-core GPU (Radeon HD 6410D)</li>
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Nvidia Tegra 3 to launch Soon

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In an exclusive interview with <a href="http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=28540">Hexus.net</a>, General Manager of Tegra products Mike Rayfield shed some interesting info on the immediate future of Tegra, i.e. Tegra 3.<br />
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While Rayfield did not give a concrete date, he left plenty of clues by saying “I'm going to come pretty close to my cadence of a launch every year. It will be in production around the same time as my competitors' first dual-cores will."<br />
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Bearing in mind that Tegra 2 was launched only recently, this would mean that we’ll see Tegra 3 pretty soon. It is said that it will most likely see the light of day on the Mobile World Congress, and it would indeed make sense.<br />
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This tempo will help Nvidia put pressure on Qualcomm and TI which usually take more than a year to launch their SoCs. Rayfield refused to shed light on the number of cores or the process.

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Ivy Bridge 22nm to use socket 1155

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The Ivy Bridge 22nm story gets even better. The new chip is socket LGA 1155 and it is socket compatible with the existing Sandy Bridge processors and Sugar Bay 2011 platform. Unfortunately we are quite sure that Cougar point PCH chipset of Sandy Bridge won’t support the new 22nm Ivy Bridge.<br />
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We are afraid that you will still need a new board. Even the Panther point PCH chipset is pin compatible with Cougar Point chipset of Sandy Bridge, but again this might help board manufactures to make boards faster, but end users will need to buy a new board.<br />
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The new platform officially supports USB 3.0 and its graphics can deal with DirectX 11. One additional news is that Maho Bay platform graphics now supports three independent displays, something that might come handy to a few, i.e. users in the financial business. Let's not forget the enhanced media performance as well as much better performance in both graphics and CPU area.<br />
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Sounds good, and the new platform comes roughly in a year's time, Q1 2012, most likely January 2012 if Intel doesn't hit any delays.

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