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Jun
11
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Stanford talk
Pat Gelsinger discusses motivations that drove the development of the Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture, some of its most important features and the challenges that face microprocessor designers in the future.
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Mar
28
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Intel Developer Forum – Keynote Webcasts
Intel Developer Forum
Steve Pawlowski and Ofri Wechsler: Intel® Core™ microarchitecture and Usages
Paolo A. Gargini: Intel’s Silicon R&D Pipeline
The keynotes of Pat P. Gelsinger (Digital Enterprise), Sean M. Maloney (Mobility), Donald J. MacDonald (The Digital Home) and Justin R. Rattner (Opening Keynote)
Dec
13
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DigiTimes.com‘s Chris Hall inteviews AMD’s Raghuram Tupuri, GM in the Microprocessor Solutions Sector – Design Engineering at AMD.
Q: The consensus within the industry is that AMD64 has clearly been a tremendous achievement for AMD and to a large extent has re-defined the competitive landscape in microprocessors. What was the design approach – if you like, the design …
Nov
19
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Slava Ocks, a developer working on SQL Server 2005 within Microsoft, reported similar problems in a blog posting earlier this month.”Our customers observed very interesting behaviour on high-end HT-enabled hardware. They noticed that in some cases when high load is applied SQL Server CPU usage increases significantly but SQL Server performance degrades,” wrote Ocks.Ocks then detailed testing which showed this behaviour where a system thread — in this case one cleaning out blocks of disk cache memory — is running …