Apple recently made available the Developer Notes for the new PowerBook models. This documentation reveals that the 15" and 17" models (but not the 12" model) support processor/bus"slewing." Slewing ...
A computer motherboard's bus speed has no effect on the installed CPU's speed. In a computer, the motherboard and the CPU are two separate components and do not impact the performance of one another.
A Spymac thread posted this weekend reveals some screenshots and information about a feature of the new PowerMac G5's called "Slewing". Details on the various modes are provided in Apple's Developer ...
SUNNYVALE, Calif. &#151 Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Thursday (June 1) said it will license its processor bus, the coherent version of the HyperTransport interconnect. Other chip makers can use the ...
The new C269 Equinox from General Micro Systems is a hot-swappable industrial CompactPCI CPU board based on Intel's new Xeon-LP Pentium IV processor (Picture). Featuring dual 3-GHz Xeon-LP CPUs, the ...
Striving to deliver solutions for maximum overall system performance, embedded board vendors are now offering multiprocessor products featuring the most recent generation of DSP and RISC processors.
When AMD released the first Athlon processor in August 1999, we were already told that its point-to-point processor bus, Alpha’s EV6, supports multi processor configuration. It took almost two years ...
Due to its weakness in latency, the specific performance balance of Rambus DRAM does not seem to favor current generation uniprocessor desktop PC platforms running traditional applications. But, we ...
For many years, the 8-bit microcontroller has been the workhorse of embedded systems. Design teams favor the size and power benefits that a tightly coupled processor, such as the 8051 microcontroller, ...