Is Intel Or AMD CPU Better?

Are Intel or AMD processors better? This is one of the most popular questions asked by people buying a new computer. It's no wonder that choosing the best CPU might seem like a complicated process. You can't tell which one is faster by simply looking at the clock rate (raw GHz) anymore! A quad core processor won't necessarily be faster than a dual core one, either. How can you know which CPU will have the best performance then?

About 10 years ago, things were more simple. The "MHz wars" between AMD and Intel were in full swing, and a consumer knew that the CPU with a higher clock speed would be the faster one. It all changed, however, with the release of Intel Pentium 4 and AMD's answer to that, the Athlon XP. The two processors had vastly different microarchitectures which meant that the P4 could achieve much higher clock speeds, even though Athlon XP was usually significantly faster on a per-MHz basis.

For example, a 1.8 GHz Athlon XP could easily outperform 1.8 GHz (and sometimes even higher) Pentium 4. AMD was losing buyers due to their supposedly "slower" CPUs - which in reality were faster, even though they had lower clock rate. They decided to start using a Performance Rating system to compare the processor speed instead of advertising the raw MHz. Funnily enough, Intel soon hit the limit on the P4 architecture and followed AMD's example. Nowadays all CPUs use some form of PR system as a performance measure.

New Intel 3 Chip Makes For Quality Life

The new Intel 3 chip is out. This is the newest chip in the world of Intel computer processors. This is going to be a chip that will be used to power some of the world's fastest and most powerful computers and will be used to help make a computer more efficient. Now that the new Intel 3 chip is out let's take a look at all of the different things that will work with this new chip.

The reason why the Intel 3 chip has the three in its name is that the speed and strength of the chip is incredibly powerful at three gigahertz or higher. This is one of the strongest chips that is available on the market and will be impressive for high end products in terms of how well they will work on a computer.

One of the best things about the Intel 3 chip is how it performs in certain display technologies. Image technology is one of the newest technologies in computers, and the new Intel 3 chip works very well with this technology. It also performs incredibly well in integrated illustration display.

The audio quality of the programs that are run with the Intel 3 chip is impressive. 7.1 channels of ambient sound can be produced on programs that are run with the Intel 3 chip. This is the best sound technology that is available on the market and it can make computers that run with the Intel 3 chip work like a home theater system with its unbelievable sound quality.

One of the most notable things to see now that the new Intel 3 chip is out is that the chip supports HDMI technology. This is High-Definition Multimedia Interface technology. It works to transmit fully uncompressed video and audio streams in high definition quality. This is found to be one of the newest technologies and is expected to replace coaxial cable based technologies in the 

In View of Intel's 2010 Laptop Computers

The latest laptop models have ensnared the interests of the many notebook fanatics as the year 2010 commenced. One of these interesting models is manifested by Intel's 2010 laptop computer innovation.

Introducing Intel's Arrandale Chip: Promising great news on the processors obverse is the potential released of the company's mobile translation of the Westmere line - the dual-core 32nm. Such chip seizes 2 cores, which would be capable of supporting 4 threads. This is made possible by the company with the chip's hyper-threading attribute. This attribute is one of the components of Intel's very own platform known as the Calpella, which supported a five-series chipset.

Prospect brands for the Arrandale would be dubbed as Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 trademarks. Each of these brands may differ in terms of available cache amount and turbo boosting capacity of each chip.

What more to expect from the Arrandale chip? A common user's perception about latest brands or product released is the integration of newly added advanced features and functionality. As for Intel's Arrandale, is the inclusion of a 45nm graphics die, likewise, is a 32nm die for processor. This is somehow contrary to AMD's and other laptop's embedded graphics system, which obviously is much more faster than Intel's.

The Clarksfield Chip:Nevertheless, Intel business continues to find ways to level with or even surpass AMD's laptop innovation. Evident of this effort is the release of the Clarksfield chip. It is so far, the most recent chip that is described as an 8-thread chip, also known as quad-core. This then will fall under the Core i7 brand category, which still belongs to the Cappella OS.

Acer Aspire AS5251 Laptop Review - A Sub $400 Laptop

Acer has recently skyrocketed in the list of the best selling laptops with their Acer Aspire AS5251. At under $400, the price cannot be beat. But does this inexpensive laptop pack enough punch to be considered among the best?

Of course, what first interests us about this AS5251 Acer laptop is the price. We are accustomed to seeing the top rated netbook come in at prices around $400, but not laptops. Laptops, typically, do not have the compromises and concessions that we find on netbooks. These compromises are found in the form of limited memory, smaller hard drives, less-powerful processors, and much smaller laptop screens.

So, let's look at what, if any, compromises that Acer had to make to deliver us this AS5251 laptop under $400 (the current asking price is $379 at many locations).

The first thing that I noticed when I received this laptop was the look and feel of the machine. It's quite similar to the ASUS UL80Vt-A1, which I currently rate as the best price/performance laptop on the market today. The machine is black and comes with a 15.6-inch widescreen laptop monitor that provides solid quality with a built web cam, easily enabling you to video-chat with all of your friends.

Intel's Main Advantage - Speed of Having New Products

Intel China Research Center is working on Model-based Computing to optimize the use of its multi core microprocessor technology. Hint, Microsoft is currently looking closer into virtualization software. It seems that virtualization it's more related to server technology. The virtualization strategy combined with utility computing that uses virtual machines, & the third most important factor; the multi core chip's scalability, performance & power efficiency to reach high levels of work load consolidation in data centers.

Tera-scale computers which are based on 10 to 100s of integrated processor cores perform 3 workloads in Model based computing: "Recognition object or pattern in a database, data mining (source the data base to find identical objects or related patterns that match the target object), & information synthesis (you mine out data, different patterns & objects, put together in a way that user can digest; user can derive useful solutions)" quoted from Vived De; fellow of Intel.

Let us briefly compare side by side, the main offerings from both Intel & AMD quad core microprocessors. You can see that AMD's strategy is taking the competitors weakness as its strength. AMD keeps mentioning about its superior 2mb L3 cache; touted as better than any of its competitors while Intel is in a competition with its own past achievements. Intel is staying away from a head to head "chicken play" with AMD by producing new products much faster than its nearest competitors even though it misses a few innovative hits like a new L3 cache.