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NVIDIA Tesla Technology
November 14, 2007 - By Gabriel Torres
Everything you need to know about Tesla, a series of ”video cards“ from NVIDIA that are used to process regular programs and not video under a concept called GPGPU.

Penryn Core New Features
March 29, 2007 - By Gabriel Torres
Learn about the new features brought by the forthcoming Penryn core, which is a 45 nm core that will be used on Core 2 and Xeon CPUs in 2008. Includes a small peek on the next Intel microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, and also the latest Intel roadmap up to 2010.

Details on Intel’s Forthcoming 45 nm Manufacturing Technology
January 29, 2007 - By Gabriel Torres
An overview of Intel’s 45 nm manufacturing technology and Penryn core.

AMD Quad FX Platform
January 26, 2007 - By Gabriel Torres and Cássio Lima
Everything you need to know about AMD’s new "four-core" Quad FX platform.

Intel Quad-Core CPU Overview and Roadmap
September 26, 2006 - By Gabriel Torres
A quick look at the forthcoming Intel quad-core CPUs.

AMD Turion 64 X2 Prototypes
March 8, 2006 - By Gabriel Torres
Some pictures of the reference boards for the dual-core version of Turion 64 based on chipsets by ATI (Xpress) and NVIDIA (SLI Power).

IDF Spring 2006 Coverage
March 7, 2006 - By Gabriel Torres
Highlights of the opening keynote given by Justin Rattner, Intel’s CTO, with the latest announcements by Intel on the CPU arena, including Intel’s new microarchitecture, called Core.

Interview With Phil Hester, AMD’s Corporate VP and CTO
February 9, 2006 - By Gabriel Torres
Exclusive interview with Phil Hester, AMD’s Corporate VP and CTO, discussing AMD’s plans, strategies, new CPUs and a little bit of his professional life and experience.

Intel Fab18 Factory Tour in Kiryat Gat, Israel
November 25, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres
Have you ever wondered how is like a CPU factory from inside? We visited Intel’s Fab18, located in Israel, where Pentium 4 CPUs, chipsets and flash memories are manufactured.

IDF Tel Aviv 2005 Coverage
November 3, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres
Our coverage of the first IDF held in Israel, home of the design team that created the Pentium M and the forthcoming Merom, Conroe and Woodcrest CPUs. Read our coverage to learn more about the new CPUs from Intel.

VIA C7-M Processor
September 12, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres
Learn about the new CPU from VIA targeted to the mobile market, C7-M.

IDF Fall 2005 Coverage
August 26, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres
Learn about the new Intel CPU architecture and the latest advancements in mobile computing in our IDF Fall 2005 coverage.

Intel Dual Core Technology
May 17, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres
Learn about the new dual-core processors from Intel, Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition, and the new chipsets i945 and i955.

Dual Core AMD Processors
May 9, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres
Learn about the new dual-core Athlon 64 X2 and the new dual-core Opteron processors from AMD.

64-bit Xeon MP and Intel E8500 Chipset
April 28, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres
Learn about the new 64-bit Xeon MP CPU and the new Intel E8500 chipset.

The New 64-Bit Pentium 4 Processor
March 1, 2005 - By Gabriel Torres
Learn about the main features of the new 64-bit Pentium 4 processors (6 series) that were just released.

AMD 64-bit architecture (x86-64)
October 27, 2004 - By Ricardo Zelenovsky and Alexandre Mendonça
Learn in depth how the 64-bit architecture from AMD works.

Intel 64-bit architecture (IA-64)
October 27, 2004 - By Ricardo Zelenovsky and Alexandre Mendonça
Learn in depth how the Intel IA-64 architecture works.