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AMD's 8-Core Bulldozer CPU Is Here At Last 
AMD Brings Its A-Game To Battle Sandy Bridge Laptops Despite reports that Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors would be delayed until June, CNET now says that Intel will start rolling out the highly anticipated processors on April 23.
The Barcelona Supercomputer Center is building one of the greenest, high-performance computers on the planet, but if Alex Ramirez gets his way, it could also be the most powerful.
There have been a series of hold-ups with Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processor line, but according to CPU World the wait is almost over; some of the new mobile and desktop quad-core chips will be launched before the end of April.
Johannes Kepler once wrote, “Nature uses as little as possible of anything.” Nvidia’s latest GPU, code-named Kepler after the German mathematician, looks to be inspired by that quote, as much as by the original Kepler’s mathematical prowess. The new GPU — the GTX 680 — offers superb graphics horsepower but requires only two 6-pin PCI Express power connectors. It’s a big departure from the last-generation GTX 580, which was fast but power hungry.
Apple’s unapologetically selling a new iPad that’ll get very hot in your hands while playing a game. Maybe they should have done something about that, yeah. But the tablet’s new processor is so massive, we shouldn’t be surprised.
With processors, it’s easy to get caught up in gigahertz and petaflops and the top-end specs. But blazing fast speed doesn’t mean all that much for, say, your refrigerator. ARM’s says its Cortex-M0+ chip will connect your dumb appliances to a smart grid, and offer “years” of battery life on some of them.
We’ve been hearing for years that integrated graphics — meaning your computer doesn’t have its own, separate graphics card — won’t catch up to the beefier cards, but it’ll be good enough some day soon. Hasn’t happened yet. But these reported benchmarks of Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors from CPU World look pretty promising.
In the ongoing quest to push processor performance, the key is being able to effectively shrink their component parts. A new transistor, based on a single atom, may go further than helping speed things up: it could shatter Moore’s Law.
