This site contains miscellaneous links to various bits of computer hardware information which I find interesting. Most of the links are related to CPUs. I made this list primarily for my own reference, but feel free to have a look yourself. Be warned that you may find this list uninteresting, incomplete, silly, ridiculous, ugly, hard to read, or all of the above. I do not claim that all of the information contained in the links is 100% accurate or completely unbiased. Viewer discretion is advised. There are no scheduled updates to this site, although I expect new links to be added in the future.
-eRacer 4/20/06
CATEGORIES: AMD only, Intel only, CPU - General, Video Cards, Other
CPU - General
| Via Nano | Legit Reviews | June 2, 2008 | Centaur Technologies Tour - Making The Via Nano CPU. Via Nano info and benchmarks. |
| Market share | eWeek | April 23, 2008 | AMD and Intel x86 CPU market share. IDC numbers. |
| ASP | Investor Village | July 25, 2007 | AMD and Intel ASPs for desktop, mobile, server and overall from Q1 06 to Q2 07. |
| OLPC | 60 Minutes | May 20,2007 | Critical comments from Negroponte about Intel's interference in the One Laptop Per Child program. |
| Market share | Reuters | April 24, 2007 | Intel CPU market share rebounds to 80.5% in Q1 07. |
| Market share | TG Daily | April 10, 2007 | AMD loses dominance in U.S. retail channel to Intel |
| Market Share | InvestorVillage | January 27, 2007 | Mercury Q4 06 x86 CPU market share percentage and units. |
| Pricing | InvestorVillage | December 10, 2006 | AMD and Intel ASPs for Q3 2006. |
| Platform | EETimes - Asia | November, 16, 2006 | AMD Hypertransport vs. Geneseo. |
| Quad-core | PCLab.pl | December 14, 2006 | AMD FX-74 and Intel Kentsfield performance in Windows Vista. |
| Quad-core | Hardware Upgrade | November 30, 2006 | AMD 4x4 and Intel Kentsfield performance in Windows XP and Vista RC2. |
| Market share | X-bit labs | October 31, 2006 | AMD and Intel grew market share in Q3 2006. Bloomberg has more detailed numbers. |
| Market share | PC Advisor | September 27, 2006 | AMD holds 16% of laptop market and Intel 82% in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. AMD's share down slightly in Q2 06 compared to Q1. |
| Quad-core | DigiTimes | September 20, 2006 | Article claims that AMD has already shipped revision H quad-core samples. |
| Market share | IDC | August 23, 2006 | A lot of info on Q2 server market share. |
| Market share | News.com | July 31, 2006 | AMD reaches 26% server market share. |
| Market share | International Business Times | July 27, 2006 | AMD gains market share in Q2 on Intel. Unit shipments at 22% market share. |
| Market share | CNET News.com | July 10, 2006 | Intel takes back lead in U.S. retail |
| NVIDIA CPU | nForcersHQ | June 8, 2006 | NVIDIA looking to enter CPU market? |
| Server market share | Investor's Business Daily | May 24, 2006 | AMD has nearly 26% of U.S. x86 server market, and 48.1% in the U.S. x86 multi-processor server market. |
| Interview | nV News Forums | May 11, 2006 | Tim Sweeney interview where he disses P4, praises Conroe and Intel's direction on quad-core. |
| CPU architecture | Anandtech | May 1, 2006 | Intel Core versus AMD's K8 architecture. |
| Oblivion CPU performance | FiringSquad | April 25, 2006 | Comparison of single- and dual-core Athlon 64 performance at different resolutions in Oblivion. Anandtech has a review up as well which also includes Intel CPUs. |
| Server performance | Anandtech | April 24, 2006 | Quad-socket dual-core performance comparison between Opteron 880 and 3GHz Paxville Xeon MP. |
| Performance | Tom's Hardware Guide | April 5, 2006 | Spring 2006 Interactive CPU Charts. Compares performance of many CPUs in a variety of benchmarks. Clicking on chart results shows benchmark test setup. |
| AMD market share | CNET News.com | March 3, 2006 | AMD retail desktop market share 81.5% in first seven weeks of 2006. Intel notebook share down to 63%. |
| Quad-core | The Inquirer | February 8, 2006 | Intel to demo quad-core publicly. AMD first quad-core demo behind closed doors back in October 2005. |
| Market share | internetnews | January 26, 2006 | AMD 21.4% x86 market share, 15.1% mobile, 16.4% server. |
| Desktop performance | The Inquirer | December 29, 2005 | Charlie expects Conroe to outperform Athlon 64 by the end of 2006 with Athlon 64 predicted at 3.2GHz and Conroe at 3GHz. |
| Performance | c't | September 2005 | Expected SPEC performance and TDP of upcoming processors including K9. |
| Performance | Tom's Hardware Guide | December 21, 2004 | The Mother of All CPU Charts Part 2. Huge variety of CPUs benchmarked including everything from 100MHz Pentium to 3.46GHz P4EE and Athlon 64 FX-55. |
| Windows x86 performance | Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows | May 11, 2004 | Microsoft VP Bob Muglia talks about Intel and AMD x86-64 performance. |
| Manufacturing costs | ZDNet | May 16, 2002 | Pentium 4 vs. Athlon XP manufacturing costs. |
