Today Intel's Atom line occupies a prominent place in Intel's best client chips. Atom cores are also going into Intel's upcoming Sierra Forest server CPU, where they'll similarly aim to deliver area efficient multithreaded performance. But a few generations ago, Intel's Atoms were stuck in low power devices where they were nearly forgotten as people…
Recently a set of Skymont slides were published, apparently without any embargo or confidentiality marks. I have no proof that the slides are genuine. However, I think they're worth analyzing because there's a lot of detail visible. Faking a large set of slides with many points would be very difficult. It's hard to come up…
CPU-Z is a hardware information tool from a company called CPUID, not to be confused with the CPUID instruction. Besides showing basic CPU, motherboard, and memory information, CPU-Z features a built-in benchmark. While the benchmark isn't its primary function, it has made its way into some reviews, as well as AMD's slides. Its free, accessible…
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