In this Intel Chip Chat podcast with Allyson Klein, Leslie Xu, a technology manager for the sever group, talks about Intel QuickPath Architecture, a high-speed packet-based point-to-point serial interconnect that evolved from the front side bus. Also discussed is the [See the full post…]

Providing point-to-point high-speed links to distributed shared memory, Intel QuickPath technology unleashes Nehalem’s parallel processing performance.

In this audio podcast, Nehalem lead architect Ronak Singhal discusses the significant performance and power improvements of Intel’s latest leap in microarchitectural design. The technology has significant implications for dynamic scalability, design and performance scalability, simultaneous multi-threading, scalable shared memory [See the full post…]

Intel is now shipping Xeon processors built via a 45nm manufacturing process. These chips exhibit some of the best performance per watt characteristics on the market. Later in 2008, however, Intel plans to advance its silicon again via a new [See the full post…]