This site contains miscellaneous links to various bits of computer hardware information which I find interesting. Most of the links are related to CPUs. I made this list primarily for my own reference, but feel free to have a look yourself. Be warned that you may find this list uninteresting, incomplete, silly, ridiculous, ugly, hard to read, or all of the above. I do not claim that all of the information contained in the links is 100% accurate or completely unbiased. Viewer discretion is advised. There are no scheduled updates to this site, although I expect new links to be added in the future.
-eRacer 4/20/06
CATEGORIES: AMD only, Intel only, CPU - General, Video Cards, Other
Intel only
| Nehalem | Anandtech | June 5, 2008 | Nehalem performance preview. |
| Atom | Anandtech | June 3, 2008 | Intel Atom benchmarks. |
| Core 2 Duo | Tom's Hardware | October 24, 2007 | Impact of cache size on benchmark performance. |
| 45-nm | HKEPC | September 25, 2007 | Intel desktop 45-nm launch models, prices, and volumes. |
| Roadmap | Tom's Hardware | June 22, 2007 | Intel server and workstation roadmaps through Q2 2008. |
| CPU | Beyond3D | April 11, 2007 | Intel presentation reveals the future of the CPU-GPU war |
| Roadmap | EETimes | March 20, 2007 | Intel plans 45-nm UMPC CPU launch for later in 2007. |
| Interview | EETimes | March 19, 2007 | Paul Otellini Intel will maintain performance lead for the next 12-18 months. |
| Presentation | Intel | February 21, 2007 | Intel server PDF presentation. |
| Roadmap | PC Watch | February 2, 2007 | Intel roadmap suggesting first 45-nm CPUs will be clocked and named the same as 65-nm Core 2. |
| Clovertown | TG Daily | January 31, 2006 | Clovertown to make up 30% of 2-way server CPU shipments in Q1 07 and ramp to 70% by Q4 07. |
| 45-nm | Real World Tech | January 27, 2006 | Intel 45-nm process details. Anandtech also covers story. |
| Roadmap | HKEPC | January 26, 2006 | Intel desktop shipments through Q4 2007. Some Yorkfield and Wolfdale specs included. |
| Sales | CNET News.com | January 25, 2006 | Intel creates server design customized for Google's needs. |
| Roadmap | HKEPC | December 19, 2006 | Planned Intel desktop shipments Q4 06 through Q3 07. |
| Pricing | HKEPC | December 18, 2006 | Q2 price cuts for Core 2 desktops. |
| Penryn | Reuters | November 27, 2006 | Intel Penryn samples in production. |
| Roadmap | VR-Zone | November 18, 2006 | HyperThreading to return with Bloomfield in Nehalem generation. |
| Clovertown | 2CPU.com | November 11, 2006 | Clovertown review. |
| DDR3 | HKEPC | October 23, 2006 | Intel DDR3 info for 2007 and beyond. |
| Roadmap | HKEPC | October 21, 2006 | Intel desktop market share projected from Q4 2006 through Q3 2007. |
| Roadmap | VR-Zone | October 20, 2006 | Nahelem to get two new sockets. |
| Yorkfield | VR-Zone | October 4, 2006 | Rumored quad-core Yorkfield vs. Altair specs. Yorkfield clocks listed as 3.46-3.73GHz. |
| Caneland | TechWeb | September 29, 2006 | Caneland platform slide with specs. |
| Quad-core | heise online | September 29, 2006 | Cost estimates of true quad-core versus dual die dual-core. True quad-core would cost several dollars more per CPU. |
| Yorkfield | DigiTimes | September 28, 2006 | Yorkfield planned for Q3 2007 launch. |
| SSE4 | Anandtech | September 27, 2006 | SSE4 will contain 50 instructions and be introduced in the Nehalem family of processors. |
| Roadmap | CNET News.com | September 26, 2006 | Intel targets 80-core CPU production within five years. |
| Production | Yahoo! Finance | September 26, 2006 | Intel claims to have shipped 5 million Core 2 Duo CPUs in less than 60 days after launch. |
| Tulsa | DigiTimes | September 22, 2006 | Tulsa to account for 85% of 4-way server CPU shipments from Intel in Q1 2007. |
| Quad-core | DailyTech | September 21, 2006 | Intel Clovertown and Kentsfield specs listed through early 2007. |
| Conroe-L | DigiTimes | September 19, 2006 | Specs on new Pentiums and Celerons based on single-core Conroe-L due to launch in 2007. |
| BTX | HEXUS | September 10, 2006 | BTX fading away. Intel plans no new BTX launches in 2007. |
| Kentsfield | Tom's Hardware | September 10, 2006 | Full performance preview of 2.67GHz Kentsfield versus several other popular processors. |
| CSI | ZDNet | September 8, 2006 | Intel expecting to use CSI and integrated memory controller in 2008 for Tukwila and 2009 for Xeon. |
| Core 2 Duo | The Inquirer | August 25, 2006 | New Core 2 Duo stepping on the way. |
| Production | DigiTimes | August 16, 2006 | Intel phasing out production of almost all 90-nm CPUs by end of 2006. |
| G965 chipset | The Inquirer | August 2, 2006 | C1 stepping buggy. Graphics performance of C2 stepping poor, possibly worse than the 945G. |
| Production | Yahoo! | July 27, 2006 | Otellini says Intel plans to ship 1 million Core 2 Duos in less than seven weeks. |
| Production | CRN | July 27, 2006 | Intel claims Core 2 Duo fastest ramping chip in Intel history, shipping 1 million processors in a little less than 10 weeks. |
| 64-bit performance | PC Watch | July 18, 2006 | Hiroshige's Goto analysis on CMW 64-bit performance limitations. |
| Tulsa | HKEPC | July 16, 2006 | Tulsa to launch August 27th. |
| 965 chipset | The Inquirer | July 6, 2006 | 965 chipsets are scarce due to lack of IDE controller. |
| RAID problems | The Inquirer | July 5, 2006 | Conroe problems using RAID. Here is a followup story on Woodcrest RAID problems. |
| Conroe launch | The Inquirer | July 4, 2006 | Conroe launch moved up to July 14th. |
| Conroe performance | Hardware.fr | June 22, 2006 | Excellent Conroe preview with benchmarks showing the effects of latency, bandwidth, FSB, L2 cache size and 64-bit versus 32-bit on performance. |
| Kentsfield performance | XtremeSystems | June 19, 2006 | Kentsfield sample at 2.4GHz benchmarked and significantly outperformed Conroe in Cinebench and TMPGEnc 3.0 Xpress. |
| Intel FB-DIMM performance | Phoronix | June 16, 2006 | Many benchmarks of FB-DIMM performance. |
| Conroe performance | Digit-Life | June 16, 2006 | Tests 4MB 2.13GHz and 2.67GHz Conroe against FX-62, FX-60 and PEE 965. |
| Quad-core | eWeek | June 13, 2006 | Intel possibly planning future CPUs with integrated memory and/or graphics controller. |
| Pricing | Bloomberg | June 9, 2006 | Intel to cut prices up to 60%. AMD's Dirk Meyer says "Price competition doesn't scare us." |
| Roadmap | bit-tech | June 8, 2006 | Core 2 Duo may not launch until September. |
| Woodcrest performance | Anandtech | June 7, 2006 | First complete Woodcrest review. Compares 3GHz Woodcrest performance to Opteron, Sun UltraSparc T1, Irwindale. |
| P965 chipset | The Inquirer | June 6, 2006 | The P965 chipset is expected to use more power than the 945P and 975X. |
| Conroe Extreme performance | Anandtech | June 6, 2006 | Anandtech compares 2.93GHz Core 2 Extreme X6800 performance to AMD FX-62. |
| Chipset performance | ZOL.com.cn | June 6, 2006 | Intel 975X, 965G, 946G and 945P chipset performance compared using 1.83GHz Conroe. |
| Conroe performance | Hardware Upgrade | June 4, 2006 | Conroe 2.67GHz performance compared to FX-60 @ 2.8GHz. bit-tech also reviews the Conroe E6700. |
| Roadmap | HKEPC | May 26, 2006 | Bear Lake chipset to support 1333MHz FSB in Q2 2007 for Conroe XE. |
| Conroe-L roadmap | HKEPC | May 26, 2006 | Single-core Conroe-L due in Q2 2007. |
| Pricing | HKEPC | May 25, 2006 | Intel CPU pricing roadmap. |
| Woodcrest | tecCHANNEL | May 23, 2006 | Woodcrest review with benchmark comparisons to Opteron, Dempsey, and older Xeons. |
| Conroe performance | Hexus | May 23, 2006 | Conroe at 2.4GHz and 2.6GHz dominate FX-62, FX-60 and PEE 965. |
| Woodcrest | Real World Technologies | May 23, 2006 | Woodcrest previewed and performance compared to Dempsey. |
| Woodcrest | Tech Report | May 23, 2006 | Woodcrest previewed and performance compared to Opteron 285. |
| Woodcrest performance | The Inquirer | May 19, 2006 | Woodcrest dominates in Linpack performance. |
| Woodcrest | The Inquirer | May 18, 2006 | Woodcrest power use better than expected (65W instead of 80W), and a bit faster as well. |
| Conroe info | Tom's Hardware Guide | May 14, 2006 | Thread with summary of Conroe benchmarks and info in the THG forums. |
| Interview | TGDaily | May 11, 2006 | David Tuhy talks about the future of Intel desktops. |
| Conroe review | PConline | May 9, 2006 | Many Conroe benchmarks from various benchmark categories. Included 2.13GHz 4MB and 1.83GHz 2MB engineering samples. |
| Tukwila / CSI | Real World Technologies | May 5, 2006 | Specs listed for Tukwila and CSI. |
| Yonah performance | Anandtech | May 4, 2006 | Intel Core Duo: AOpen i975Xa-YDG to the Rescue. Yonah meets or beats Opteron performance in every benchmark. One of the first Yonah reviews using a performance chipset (975X) and low latency DDR2-667 (3-3-3). |
| Merom performance | XtremeSystems | May 3, 2006 | Coolaler compares overclocked 2.16GHz Merom to overclocked 2.16GHz Yonah in several benchmarks. |
| Mobile specs | HKEPC | April 28, 2006 | Yonah vs. Merom specs with TDPs listed. |
| Roadmap | X-bit labs | April 28, 2006 | Intel expects new architecture every two years. Nahalem and Gesher listed. |
| Presentation | Intel | April 27, 2006 | Intel Spring 2006 Analyst Meeting PDF slides. Lots of Woodcrest, Conroe and Merom info. |
| Roadmap | The Inquirer | April 27, 2006 | Intel Woodcrest to ship in June, Conroe July, Merom August. |
| Conroe performance | XtremeSystems | April 24, 2006 | Conroe @ 2.72GHz sets Aquamark 3 record, beats 3.6+GHz Athlon 64 FX-60. |
| Conroe performance | XtremeSystems | April 23, 2006 | Conroe @ 2.67GHz scores in 3DMark 2001, 3DMark05 and 3DMark06. |
| Woodcrest performance | Coolaler | April 20, 2006 | SuperPi 1M 17.375s score of 3GHz Woodcrest. |
| Conference call | Seeking Alpha | April 19, 2006 | Intel Q1 2006 earnings conference call transcript. |
| Pentium/Celeron power | HKEPC | April 19, 2006 | Pentium 6xx and Celeron D to get new stepping and use less power in Q3 2006. |
| Yonah performance | BeHardware | April 20, 2006 | Desktop Intel Core Duo. Full Core Duo review and benchmarked against Pentium M, Pentium D, Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 X2. |
| Yonah performance | Tech Report | April 18, 2006 | Yonah 2.16GHz compared to Turion, A64 X2, A64 FX, Opteron, Dothan, Pentium D and Pentium EE. |
| Quad-core ramp | X-bit Labs | April 18, 2006 | Analyst expects slow quad-core ramp. Includes Pentium D, Paxville and Pentium EE unit sales in 2005. |
| Conroe roadmap | DailyTech | April 17, 2006 | Conroe To Account for 40% of Intel Desktop in Q1'07. |
| Clovertown performance | HKEPC | April 13, 2006 | Dual socket quad-core Clovertown system running 64-bit Cinebench. |
| Merom performance | XtremeSystems | April 12, 2006 | Repost of 2 GHz Merom versus 2.16GHz Yonah benchmarks. |
| Celeron-M performance | XtremeSystems | April 9, 2006 | One of the earliest known overclocks of Yonah-based Celeron-M. Celeron-M 430 (1.73GHz stock) runs SuperPi beyond 3.2GHz. |
| Pentium D 805 performance | Anandtech | April 7, 2006 | First full review of Pentium D 805 performance. |
| Conroe performance | Victor's blog | early April 2006 | Some of the earliest independent Conroe benchmarks are here set 1 set 2 set 3 set 4. Results also posted in this XtremeSystems thread. |
| Woodcrest performance | HardwareZone | March 16, 2006 | Intel compares 3GHz Woodcrest performance and energy-efficiency to Sun 2.4GHz Opteron system. |
| Conroe performance | Anandtech | March 7, 2006 | Many Conroe previews from Intel Conroe vs. 2.8GHz FX-60 demo including: Anandtech-Part 1 Anandtech-Part 2 Tech Report Hot Hardware Hexus |
| Woodcrest performance | Tweakers.net | March 3, 2006 | Anticipated Woodcrest SPEC scores compared to current processors. |
| Pentium specs | Intel | March 2, 2006 | PDF with info on new C1 stepping specs including lower power consumption. |
| Conroe price list | Overclockers Forums | February 27, 2006 | Expected Conroe prices and frequencies through 2006. |
| Tulsa | Real World Technologies | February 19, 2006 | Article on Intel Tulsa with 16MB L3 cache. |
| Conroe roadmap | Anandtech | February 16, 2006 | Intel 2006 desktop roadmap and percentage Conroe shipments for Q3 and Q4 2006. |
| Core Duo | ZDNet UK | January 30, 2006 | Vendors struggle to ship Core Duo laptops due to launch date being moved up from March to January. |
| Intel roadmap | Tom's Hardware Guide | December 4, 2005 | Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered: Lots of code names and launch times listed for Intel's 65-nm and 45-nm CPUs. |
| Dempsey performance | Real World Technologies | November 29, 2005 | Dempsey performance preview comparing to Nocona. |
| Dempsey performance | tecCHANNEL.de | November 8, 2005 | Dempsey benchmark preview. |
| Production | The Inquirer | August 18th, 2005 | Charlie hears rumors that Intel's 45-nm process features very low leakage/excellent power consumption. |
| Montecito | MPR Online | January 18, 2005 | MPR Online awards Montecito the MPR Analysts' Choice Award for Best Server Processor of 2004. |
| Prescott launch | EE Times | December 15, 2003 | Analyst claiming Prescott speeds lowered from 2.8+ GHz to 2.2 - 2.4 GHz. |
| Intel roadmap | PC Watch | December 2003 | Unofficial Intel CPU roadmap through 2006. |
| Intel presentation | Investors Hub | November 24, 2003 | Intel fall analyst presentation. |
| Prescott benchmarks | OCHeaven | October 3, 2003 | First Prescott benchmarks (2.8 GHz). |
| Itanium | ZDNet UK | April 23, 2003 | Itanium's 32-bit emulator to fight AMD. |
| Itanium | X-bit labs | February 26, 2003 | Only 3500 Itanium Processors Sold in 2002. But HP Bets on Itanium. |
| Roadmap | The Inquirer | January 29, 2003 | Tejas to reach 9.20GHz, Prescott 5.20GHz. Nehalem to start at 10.2GHz. Hard Tecs 4U published similar roadmap in July 2003. |
| Itanium | Silicon Investor | September 28, 2002 | Reference to NY Times article on Itanium costs and delays. |
| Roadmap | The Register | September 25, 2002 | Intel eases up in race to 10GHz. |
| Prescott architecture | Tweakers.net | September 22, 2002 | Prescott: the answer to AMD's Hammer? |
| Northwood | Electronic News | January 7, 2002 | Northwood $55 per die, Willamette $100, and PIII $40. |
| Pentium 4 architecture | EE Times | December 14, 2000 | Intel muted ambitious Pentium 4 design. |
| Itanium | Computing Canada | July 6, 1994 | New HP-Intel pact could hit PC clones hard. |
