Revolutionary microchip uses 30 times less power

Scientists have created a microchip that uses 30 times less electricity while running seven times faster than today's best technology. PCMOS was announced today at theInternational Solid-State Circuits Conference, a premier forum for engineers working at the cutting edge of integrated-circuit design.

Conceived by Rice University Professor Krishna Palem, PCMOS sits on top of the CMOS, complementary metal-oxide semiconductor technology.

A significant achievement here is the validation of Rice's probabilistic analogue to Boolean logic using PCMOS. Coupled with the significant energy and speed advantages that PCMOS offers, this logic will prove extremely important because basic physics dictates that future transistor-based logic will need probabilistic methods. - Shekhar Borkar, an Intel Fellow.

If a PCMOS microchip can slash energy use in embedded devices, the implications are enormous.

SAMSUNG Develops World's Highest Density DRAM Chip

Samsung just announced the development of a low-power 4Gb DDR3 DRAM chip, using 50 nanometer process technology.

This is great news for the new generation of Green data centers as the 4Gb DDR3's high density will require lower levels of power consumption and along with quad-core low power microprocessors help facilitate server consolidation.

We have leveraged our strength in innovation to develop the first 4Gb DDR3, in leading the industry to higher DRAM densities. By designing our 4Gb DDR3 using state-of-the-art 50-nm class technology, we are setting the stage for what ultimately will result in significant cost-savings, for servers and for the overall computing market - Kevin Lee, VP, technical marketing, Samsung Semiconductor.

The 4Gb DDR3 can be produced in 16 gigayte registered dual in-line memory modules RDIMM for servers, as well as 8GB unbuffered DIMM UDIMM for desktop PCs, and 8GB small outline DIMM SODIMM for laptops

Designed to be low-powered, the 4Gb DDR3 DRAM operates at 1.35 volts improving its throughput by 20 percent over a 1.5V DDR3. Its maximum speed is 1.6 gigabits per second.

World’s First Entirely x86-based Supercomputer to Achieve Petaflop Performance

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Cray XT5 "Jaguar" Supercomputer

World's Most Powerful Computer. For Science!

The Jaguar petaflops Supercomputer will make it possible to address some of the most challenging scientific problems in areas such as climate modeling, renewable energy, materials science, fusion and combustion.

With more than three times the memory of any other computer and incredible bandwidth the Jaguar is powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors as the first supercomputer to uses the X86 instruction set with all it's applications, compilers, and tools. Jaguar has hundreds of applications that have been ported to the Cray XT system and many have been scaled to run on up to 150,000 AMD Opteron cores.

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Burned Once, Intel Prepares New Chip Fortified by Constant Tests

Intel is launching a new desktop microprocessor today containing 731 million transistors spread among four cores. The Core i7 is the most powerful chip Intel has ever produced and it's also the most power efficient, when running a program with two threads only two cores will perform the task as integrated power switches turn cores on or off.  Zero power for inactive cores corresponds to billions of dollars in energy savings after all the Pentium 4 chips are replaced around the world.  

You recover from a recession with tomorrow's products, not today's - Sean Maloney VP Intel

I agree with Sean, innovation is the only way we're going to get our economy rolling again. Sure, people will not be rushing-out to upgrade their PC's today, but over the next two years all those P4's will be replaced.                    Intel Launches Fastest Processor on the Planet

In these turbulent economic times as Banks, Insurance and Automobile companies are crying for bailouts, AMD Engineers have rolled-up their sleeves to help lead us back to better times through innovation. 

Today AMD is announcing  it's first 45 nanometer Quad-Core Opteron Server processor, it will require a third less power then the previous generation Opteron and with a larger cache enable advanced virtualzation capabilities.

The Quad-Core Opteron is optimized for high speed DDR2 memory creating more efficiency with less power in the Data Center for a welcomed decrease in the overall cost of cooling.  

Partners HP, IBM, SUN and Cray are shipping servers today with the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron.

AMD is the processor provider for Windows Azure cloud services. 

AMD Stream Processor First to Break 1 Teraflop Barrier

AMD FireStream 9250 breaks the one teraflop barrier for single precision performance at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.

AMD FireStream occupies a single PCI slot with power consumption of less than 150 watts, delivering an unprecedented rate of performance per watt efficiency of up to eight gigaflops per watt.

Just last week IBM announced the Roadrunner Project the worlds fastest computer with 1,000 trillion operations per second. Roadrunner is powered by 6,562 dual-core AMD Opteron processors networked with 12,240 Cell chips.

Can you even begin to imagine the speed capabilities of leveraging AMD’s latest FireStream offering with third generation Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors..?

AMD Delivers World’s First TeraFLOPS Graphics Chip 

ATI Radeon HD 4870 introduces GDDR5 performance, pushes 1.2 teraFLOPS
The ATI Radeon HD 4870, available immediately represents an unprecedented 1.2 teraFLOPS of visual compute power. It features a stock GPU core clock speed of 750 MHz, 512 MB of GDDR5 memory rated at 3.6 gigabits/second, and comes in a dual-slot PCI Express 2.0 configuration with a maximum board power of 160 watts.

ATI Radeon HD 4850: one teraFLOPS of visual compute power
The ATI Radeon HD 4850, immediately available received an enthusiastic welcome from global graphics reviewers. The ATI Radeon HD 4850 is the world’s first teraFLOPS graphics chip, with 800 stream processing cores (identical to the ATI Radeon HD 4870), a stock GPU core clock speed of 625 MHz, 512 MB of GDDR3 memory rated at 2 gigabits/second, and comes in a single-slot PCI Express 2.0 configuration with a maximum board power of 110 watts.

It wasn't long ago that global climate models were created with mainframes comprised of hundreds of CPU's and today all you need is a quad-core Opteron or Phenom and two ATI Radeon HD 4870 running in CrossfireX