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Chips with six cores may be arriving as early as 2008. Sun leaked some slides featuring Penryn-based “Dunnington” a processor that will feature three cores on each side of the die with 16MB of shared L3 cache. Intel has previously talked about their Nehalem chip which will feature 4-core and 8-core models. Dunnington seems like it will be a bridge to Nehalem as perhaps the 8-core chips will just be a little bit too expensive and hot to …
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Chips are verified for logical correctness before being sent to foundry. The process is called ASIC verification. Verilog and VHDL are typical hardware description languages used for verification. With growing complexity of chips, hardware verification languages like SystemVerilog, SystemC, e, and OpenVera are used. The bugs found in the verification stage are reported to the designer. Traditionally, 70% of time and energy in chip design life cycle are spent on verification.
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Chips based on a new architecture known as Isaiah could help little-known Via Technologies gain some ground in the industry. by CNET News.com Tags: news, via technologies, chips, TechRepublic Inc., Architecture, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Strategy, Hardware, Networking, Management, CNET News.com Image galleries 2008-01-24
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[M]od chips aren't just for gamers. A coalition of hackers across the world is using mod chips to run something perfectly legal: Linux on the Xbox. Andy Green, cofounder of the Xbox Linux Project, says the project is, in part, an act of protest against Microsoft's continued attempts to lock out alternative operating systems. "The Xbox is not a gaming console," Green contends. "It's a Windows-only PC." Michael Robertson, head of Lindows.com-developer of a Linux version called Lindows-even put up $200,000 for the first person who could accomplish the task.
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The firm’s mobile WiMax chipset worked with Alcatel, Alvarion, Motorola, and Navini equipment at a plugfest: Beceem is working towards embedding its chips in client devices. Intel and Samsung are major investors in Beceem, which would likely lead to these chips being part of equipment delivered to Sprint customers for its mobile WiMax service next year. The chips are already used in South Korean WiBro networks.
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When you compare chips, you have to be very careful. Judging from the table, a Radeon 9800 may seem slower than a Radeon 9600 Pro, since its clock is inferior, and a Radeon X700 Pro seems faster than a Radeon X800 since it uses a higher clock rate.
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