"processors" news, interviews, and features

Slideshows about processors

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  In Pictures: 7 days, 7 futuristic technologies

  Amazing advances in computing technology revealed themselves at small events around the globe this week. Catch up on Hybrid Memory Cubes, super-speedy processors, and more.

  In Pictures: 7 days, 7 futuristic technologies
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  MIT guitar combines acoustics and electronics

  A prototype guitar built by US student Amit Zoran combines the natural acoustics of wood with the power of electronic processing

  MIT guitar combines acoustics and electronics

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News about processors

• Intel crowns a new PC chief

  Michelle Johnston Holthaus will lead Intel's Client Computing Group as Gregory Bryant departs.

• Intel's next monster 24-core chip is made for high-performance computers

  Intel's 24-core Xeon E7-8890 v4 chip could help protect against bank fraud, the company says

• Intel's fastest 22-core Broadwell chip comes to new servers

  Lenovo, HPE and Dell roll out new servers with Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 v4 chip

• Quantum computing is now a big step closer thanks to Australian breakthrough

  For the first time ever, scientists have found a way to build a quantum Fredkin gate

• Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 could yield big camera gains

  The new 'Specter' image processor will capture sharper images in low light, the company says

• Intel pushes 10nm chip-making process to 2017, slowing Moore's Law

  Intel's 'tick tock' cadence is becoming 'tick tock tock'

Interviews about processors

• Competing on multiple fronts helps Broadcom, CEO McGregor says

  In LTE phones or enterprise data centers, Broadcom sees its silicon in many places

• Mobile chip speed wars have to end, Broadcom chairman says

  Battery life will win out over ongoing performance upgrades, according to Henry Samueli

Features about processors

• Moore's Law at 50: The past and future

  Moore's Law, which has provided a guideline to maker cheaper, smaller and faster computers, endures even after 50 years

• The 8080 chip at 40: What's next for the mighty microprocessor?

  It came out in 1974 and was the basis of the MITS Altair 8800, for which two guys named Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote ...

• Tested: Which PC upgrades offer the biggest performance boost for your buck?

  We took a mainstream PC and individually upgraded it's processor, graphics card, memory, and storage

• Intel vs. ARM: Two titans' tangled fate

  Intel has barely made a dent in the mobile market, while ARM has been wildly successful

• Mindspeed acquisition fuels Intel's hopes for bigger network role

  The company's wireless access technology will it play across mobile networks, Intel said

• Bringing brains to computers

  Silicon brains will create new computers that can use the human brain as a model to make decisions