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The most exciting processor today, AMD Barcelona, is on the shelf now.

Despite the mixed review, AMD’s new K10 remains quite mystery for normal users, AMD seems to have problem in producing enough chips to feed the enthusiasts.  Anyway, Newegg manages to stock some and here you can get one for less than $800.

This is definitely something you can brag about for some time, just FYI, its a premium, and the Egg gouges like crazy for it. According to AMD, the price should be $316 for a retail box.

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Advanced Micro Devices is looking to jump back into the embedded chip market, the latest addition to the company’s embedded portfolio offers customers new low-watt, single-core options.

The company will announce the addition of three single-core Athlon 64 processors to its embedded chip portfolio. All three chips, the Athlon 64 2000+, 2600+ and the 3100+, will have low thermal envelopes of between eight and 25 watts and fit within AMD’s AM2 socket. The clock speeds on these embedded chips range from 1.0GHz to 2.0GHz and all are built on the company’s 65-nanometer manufacturing process. Each also offers 512KB of L2 cache.

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Gordon Moore, the unassuming billionaire co-founder of Intel, says the end of the technology maxim bearing his name is drawing to a close, perhaps as soon as 10 years from now.

“In 1965 Gordon Moore — Intel’s co-founder — predited that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would double every two years. Moore’s Law has been with us for over 40 years, but it seems that the limits of microelectronics are now not that far from us. Moore has predicted the end of his own law in 10 to 15 years, but he predicted that end before, and failed.”

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Intel’s largest architecture overhaul in decades is less than a year away, “Nehalem”, the next-gen 45nm native quad-core is still in Socket 775.

It wasn’t that long ago that predictions of doom and gloom pinned Intel between a rock and a hard place.  The company’s NetBurst architecture didn’t scale and its Itanium architecture didn’t sell; it looked as if for the first time in history, Moore’s Law was in serious jeopardy. 

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AMD next week will announce its latest effort to add new instructions to the x86 architecture, although just what is a bit of a mystery. A company spokesperson would only acknowledge that there will be news surrounding enhancements to the x86 instruction set on August 30, but that was all.

AMD has added its own clones of Intel extensions, such as the SSE instructions, plus its own, 3DNow! Its biggest and most successful effort was the x86-64 extensions, which made the architecture 64-bit while retaining backwards compatibility. Intel initially dismissed the idea of 64-bit x86 extensions but embraced them soon after.

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Anandtech tested Intel’s new 45nm processor, codename Penryn today. On average, Wolfdale ends up being just under 5% faster clock-for-clock than Conroe. It will simply make competing more difficult for AMD’s Phenom, but not impossible. The test is based on an Engineering Sample Penryn running at 2.33GHz(333×7) and Anandtech manages OCing it to 3.22GHz(460×7) on default 1.152v voltage.

After Intel’s price cuts, CPUs had gotten too affordable to pass up building a system now if you needed. Now that we have a general idea of clock-for-clock performance differences between Conroe and Wolfdale, we’re not nearly as worried about recommending that you build systems today as we once were. There’s no doubt that Wolfdale is faster clock-for-clock, but keep in mind that you won’t see Wolfdale until Q1 of next year and the performance advantage simply isn’t great enough to justify delaying a purchase by 6+ months if you need a system now.

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X-Bit lab claim that the new AMD processor can compete successfully with Intel processors working at the same clock speed in a large number of applications and win the competition.

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