CPUs

Packing servers with multiple CPUs is like throwing a team of day laborers at building a house.

Hybrid Computers Will Hide in the Cloud 2009

Either way it will come back to haunt you because the performance gain of adding CPUs is far less than adding additional servers.

8 Way Dual Core opterons with 128GB/ram. « The Paradigm Shift 2006

A major problem with CPUs is that you have a limited number of metal planes, and so you can’t just arbitrarily stack one connection on top of another — given an initial collection of nodes and connections, you have to arrange these in 3D space so that they conform to as few metal planes as possible.)

Matthew Yglesias » The Minerva Initiative 2010

But make no mistake: the company’s intent for one branch of Atom CPUs is to offer solid performance with low power consumption, much like ARM has done for some time.

Intel’s Netbook OS Plans Hint Smartphone Aspirations 2009

Obviously gamers and game developers want the absolute fastest graphics hardware and CPUs, which is why game machines have the highest ASP of any category.

AppleInsider 2010

Oddly enough their CPUs are the ones that are slower per clock now and there is no end in sight.

TweakTown News RSS Feed 2009

That simple sentence best explains Intel's brand-new series of CPUs, which is sure to please budget users everywhere while confounding power users.

Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

T licensed UNIX primarily to universities and researchers, along with the source code, for teaching purposes as well as internal use, but in the latter case, such use was limited to specific Central Processing Units ( "CPUs").

LXer Linux News bob@lxer.com 2010

There is a parameter used for most high-dissipation ICs (such as CPUs and GPUs) - It's called "thermal design power".

"MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader 2010

Both Athlon II and Phenom II are socket AM3 CPUs, meaning that they can be installed on socket AM2+ or socket AM3 motherboards, depending on whether you want DDR2 or DDR3 memories on your computer, respectively.

OCTools 2010

She doesn’t zoom through glowing datascapes; instead, having suffered from “too much exposure to the reactor cores of fashion,” she practices a kind of semiotic hygiene, dressing only in “CPUs,” or “Cayce Pollard Units”—clothes, “either black, white, or gray,” that “could have been worn, to a general lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000.”

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