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Intel® Software Development Products provide great application performance on Intel architecture, and enable access to the advanced features of the Pentium® 4 processor; Pentium M — a processor component of Intel® Centrino™ mobile technology§; Intel® Xeon™ and Intel® Itanium® 2 processors; and Intel® XScale® microarchitecture. All tools purchases include one year of free product upgrades (including major releases) and access to Intel® Premier Support.

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AMD Athlon™ X2 Dual-Core Processors for Desktop

AMD Athlon™ X2 Dual-Core Processors for Desktop


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Do more in less time with true multi-tasking Increase your performance by up to 80% with the AMD Athlon™ X2 dual-core processor. Work or play with multiple programs without any stalling or waiting. Dual-core technology is like having two processors, and two working together is better and faster than one working alone.

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology

Performance on demand

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology is one of the many exciting new features that Intel has built into latest-generation Intel® microarchitecture (codenamed Nehalem). It automatically allows processor cores to run faster than the base operating frequency if it's operating below power, current, and temperature specification limits.
Dynamically increasing performanceAs an independent and complimentary feature, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) along with Intel Turbo Boost Technology increases performance of both multi-threaded and single threaded workloads. Intel Turbo Boost Technology is activated when the Operating System (OS) requests the highest processor performance state (P0).
The maximum frequency of Intel® Turbo Boost Technology is dependent on the number of active cores. The amount of time the processor spends in the Intel Turbo Boost Technology state depends on the workload and operating environment, providing the performance you need, when and where you need it.
Any of the following can set the upper limit of Intel Turbo Boost Technology on a given workload:
Number of active coresEstimated current consumptionEstimated power consumptionProcessor temperature
When the processor is operating below these limits and the user's workload demands additional performance, the processor frequency will dynamically increase by 133 MHz on short and regular intervals until the upper limit is met or the maximum possible upside for the number of active cores is reached. Conversely, when any of the limits are reached or exceeded, the processor frequency will automatically decrease by 133 MHz until the processor is again operating within its limits.
Learn more about Intel Turbo Boost TechnologyView the Intel Turbo Boost Technology demoDownload the whitepaper

Intel® Atom™ Processor

The Intel® Atom™ processor is Intel's smallest processor, built with the world's smallest transistors and manufactured on Intel's industry-leading 45nm Hi-k Metal Gate technology. The Intel Atom processor was purpose-built for simple, affordable, netbooks and nettops.
Intel Atom processor-based netbooks and nettops offer both an easy-to-use mobile device with simple interfaces and targeted performance for a good online experience. They are rugged and compact in design, and offer the freedom and flexibility of wireless connectivity¹.
Great for Internet, these devices are an affordable option for education, photo and video viewing, social networking, voice over IP, e-mail, messaging, browsing, and numerous other Internet activities and basic applications

Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series

Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series

Extending today's lead in virtualization performance with built-in hardware assisted features and breakthrough gains in performance and energy efficiency²

Built for data-demanding enterprise applications with up to 6 cores and a large shared 16MB L3 cache per processor, enabling more transactions per server

More headroom, improved reliability, and the highest scalability available for large scale server consolidation and business-critical virtualization

Intel Xeon processor 5000 sequence

Intel Xeon processor 5000 sequence

Designed for robust high-performance computing

Ideal for e-mail, database, and Web servers

Outstanding price/performance and broad 64-bit industry support

Available high-density, low-power options

Intel Xeon processor 3000 sequence

Great for e-mail and file/print services

Enhanced Intel® Core™ microarchitecture for exception performance and power efficiency

High-density entry-level configurations and high-performance computing

Intel® Itanium® processor 9000 sequence

Intel® Itanium® processor 9000 sequence
Large-scale databases, data warehouses, ERP, business intelligence, and data analytics
Scales up to 512 processors and an incredible full Petabyte (1024TB) of RAM
Ultimate scalable performance, flexibility, and reliability

Intel® Core™2 Duo processor

The power to perform. With power-optimized enabled dual-core technology and exceptional energy efficiency, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor excels running the most intense applications.

Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor

Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor
For extreme computing. Enjoy revolutionary levels of performance enabling vivid, high-definition experiences and multi-tasking responsiveness from state-of-the-art Intel dual-core and quad-core technologies.

Intel® Core™2 Quad processor

Multimedia enthusiasts, prepare to enthuse. Bring quad-core performance to your desktop with the Intel® Core™2 Quad processor. It's the ideal engine for highly threaded entertainment applications and highly productive multitasking.

Intel® Celeron® processor

Intel® Celeron® processor
With the Intel® Celeron® processor, you can now take basic computing to new levels.

Intel® Celeron® processor

The Intel® Celeron® processor-based desktop platforms offer a robust computing experience together with the outstanding quality and reliability you expect from Intel

ntel Xeon processor 5000 sequence

Designed for robust high-performance computing
Ideal for e-mail, database, and Web servers
Outstanding price/performance and broad 64-bit industry support
Available high-density, low-power options

Intel® Centrino® 2 processor

Push the limits of mobile computing with Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology, enabling blazing performance, amazing battery life, and up to 2X greater range and up to 5X better wireless performance³, you can count on to deliver intensive hi-def multimedia, games, and more

Intel® Centrino® 2 with vPro™ technology ›

With security and manageability built right onto the chip, Intel® Centrino® 2 with vPro™ technology provides hardware-assisted remote isolation, diagnostics, and repair, so you can manage your mobile workforce remotely, even if the system's OS is unresponsive.¹ And with exceptional dual-core performance, 5X better wireless performanceΩ and the longest possible battery life.²
Now you can also get notebooks with Intel Centrino 2 with vPro technology in astonishingly thin and light packages. As the smallest version of Intel® Centrino® processor technology yet-50 percent smaller-you're most mobile workforce can enjoy the sleekest full-featured and performance packed notebooks³ along with improved energy efficiency and power savings.°

Intel® Pentium® processor

The Intel® Pentium® processor delivers great desktop performance, low power enhancements, and multitasking for everyday computing.

Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition

Conquer the world of extreme gaming with the fastest processor on the planet: the Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition.¹ With faster, intelligent multi-core technology that responds to your workload, it delivers an incredible breakthrough in gaming performance.

Intel® Core™ i7 processor

With faster, intelligent multi-core technology that automatically applies processing power where it's needed most, new Intel® Core™ i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in PC performance. They're the best desktop processors on the planet.¹

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Cable Clingers

Cable Clingers

These devices (see Photo) are clamped to the road-support cables running down from the main suspension cables of the Severn Bridge, which links England and Wales. Each of the curiously shaped masses is about 20 centimetres long. What are they for and why are they shaped so strangely, positioned at seemingly random angles and fixed where they are?

Ocker stopper

In Australia, the loud, shrill call of "Cooee!" is often used over long distances in rural and mountainous areas to draw attention to oneself. What is it about this word that makes it more audible over distance and is there a word more suited to drawing attention to myself should I be lost in the outback?

Do you have it in green?

Is it more damaging to the planet to buy a new, greener car than it is to use my old, more-polluting car until it finally falls to pieces? I've heard that producing a new car would consume more resources - and so is actually more environmentally harmful. Is this true?

Counter-taserism

At the recent conference of the Police Federation of England and Wales there was a call for the increased use of tasers (and, of interest to etymologists, the appearance of the verb "to tase"). Purely in the interests of research, what could be done by an individual to lessen the effect of being tased? What happens if the tased person grabs the officer who has fired the taser? If the tasee is wearing rubber-soled shoes, will that help? Alternatively, if they are standing in a puddle, will that worsen the effect? And what would a master criminal need to become invulnerable to tasing - a full-body rubber suit?Adil Hussain, Birmingham, UK

Inflation theory

If a balloon were inflated with helium and released into space, what would happen to it?

Shell suit

One of my solar-powered garden lights has become home to a colony of snails. Typically about 20 congregate there every day, mainly on the north face of the light (see Photo), but none on the solar panel. Are they adapting to 21st-century technology and using solar power to extend their periods of access to warmth and light?Roger Bloor, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, UK
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Wheels of death

I heard the car is the deadliest weapon created by humans and that the number of lives it has claimed exceeds the death toll from atomic weapons, guns or bombing. Is this true? And what are the grisly figures involved?

Net rage

When a thread or topic is started on a user-generated forum on the internet, it isn't long before one of the contributors makes a seemingly unprovoked attack on a total stranger. What is it about non-face-to-face contact of this kind that makes this more common than it would otherwise be?John Anderson, Warsaw, Poland

Monkey business

My son has a game in which you hang small plastic monkeys and gorillas from a plastic network of tree branches. The branch network is attached to an overhanging trunk by a magnet. As more monkeys are hooked on, the network becomes more unsteady until the magnet can hold it up no more. The player who breaks the bond is declared the loser.The game depends on a magnet of a clearly defined strength. But how is this strength determined so accurately during manufacture that it can hold almost all the monkeys (but not quite)?

Dirty business

In James Bond films a gun with a silencer is used to dispose of bad (and good) guys. How does the silencer work?
Jeremy Charles, Chesham, Buckinghamshire

Rain imminent

During the Monaco Grand Prix, I was watching the drivers battle with the damp conditions when the commentator said that rain was expected at the track in 6 minutes. How can forecasting be so accurate? If such technology is available, why isn't it offered to the public? Incidentally, the rain didn't arrive on this occasion, but was predicted with such confidence that presumably the forecasting must be accurate most of the time.

Dead in space

During long voyages in space it is possible that people will die, either from illness or because of an accident. What plans are there for disposal of the corpses?

Point the way

When the Apollo and other similar space capsules were returning to Earth, it was important for the larger end of their bell-shape to face downwards. This is because the protective shield, that resisted the intense heat created on re-entry by atmospheric friction as the spacecraft slowed, was positioned there.How were the capsules designed so that they would always keep the larger, protective face towards the Earth and not flip over so that the pointed end faced earthwards? It seems to me that this would be likely to happen as this orientation would minimise air resistance. Or is my grasp of space flight a bit flimsy?

Touchy feely

In Olympic swimming events, the winner is the first person to touch a pressure-sensitive wall at the end of the pool. How does this pad know that a person has touched it, rather than just registering the pressure of splashing water? If a swimmer just brushed it, would it fail to register their finish?I know that in the men's 100-metre butterfly event, the equipment was called into question when Michael Phelps of the US won his seventh gold medal of the games. How did officials know it had operated successfully?And finally, it's easy to judge the victor in a race taking place out of water - such as running - because a sensor beam can scan the finish line. But in the pool how can they ensure that all the wall pads are exactly in line at both ends of the pool? Are they aligned before water is added to the pool, and if so, how?

On the blink

When I watch digital TV channels from terrestrial transmitters, I have to endure periodic disruptions during which the audio and images start stuttering. I recently realised that the disturbances occur every time motorbikes - and particularly scooters - pass my house. It doesn't happen with cars. How do scooters disrupt my TV?

Thinking person's crumpet

A little while ago we froze a packet of those pancake-like products that in these parts we call crumpets. At the time, the sealed plastic packet seemed to contain a lot of air, but after four months in our freezer it had contracted tightly against the crumpets, which had also shrunk. After two more months at room temperature, the whole package appeared to have shrunk still further, though with no sign of mould or decay (see photo, left).The ingredients are listed as flour, water, yeast, raising agents, E450, E500, salt, sugar, preservative, calcium propionate. What's going on?

Fat chance

During a recent health check, the scales I was weighed on also gave a read-out of the percentage of my weight that was body fat. The scales had a pair of metal plates which I had to stand on with bare feet while gripping an electrode in each hand. How do they work?

A matter of timing

When I use a stopwatch to time events, I know that the accuracy of the result is subject to my ability to stop the watch at the correct instant. I am also aware that I must often be at least a few hundredths of a second out.Before the advent of electronic timing, world records such as those in athletics or swimming were measured with manual stopwatches. How accurate were these timings? Was more than one watch used and how did officials ensure they were as accurate as possible?

What happens when silicon can shrink no more?

Silicon has become synonymous with microelectronics, but now any number of pretenders are waiting to take its place, says Joerg Heber

Search for alien engineering comes up dry – so far

No 'Dyson spheres' – solar energy collectors around other stars– have yet been found, but future searches could be more sensitive

Hunting new Earths and the edge of the universe

The next generation of telescopes will allow us to peer into other galaxies, to look for Earth-like planets and supermassive black holes

Phillip Porras, a computer security expert at SRI International, a science and technology research group.
With vast resources from stolen credit card and other financial information, cyberattackers are handily winning a technology arms race.