The software side of Intel | CNET News.com

The software side of Intel | CNET News.com: "Best known for processors that have been at the heart of the PC industry for more than 20 years, Intel has quietly amassed an army of more than 8,000 software engineers, according to sources familiar with the company. "

Ars Technica: The Future of Prescott - Page 1 - (6/2004)

Ars Technica: The Future of Prescott - Page 1 - (6/2004): "IBM's POWER5 uses hyperthreading, and it certainly doesn't have the outrageous 31-stage pipeline length of Prescott. In fact, the POWER5's 16-stage pipeline isn't much longer than the Pentium M's speculated pipeline length of 12 to 14 stages. I say this only to illustrate the point that there's nothing in the lower number of pipeline stages that somehow magically makes the Pentium M a poor candidate for hyperthreading."

LinuxDevCenter.com: Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting [Jun. 03, 2004]

LinuxDevCenter.com: Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting [Jun. 03, 2004]: "Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting"

NewsForge | Analysis: New Fujitsu deal looks like smart long-term move for Sun

NewsForge | Analysis: New Fujitsu deal looks like smart long-term move for Sun: "The key point regarding Tuesday's news is that Sun and Fujitsu also have collaborated for years on the design and production of the carrier-grade UltraSPARC chip architecture they each use in their enterprise servers. This is part of the technology foundation they will use to create the new product line, which could boost the fortunes of Sun in a big way. McNealy said the APLs will provide 10 to 20 times the throughput and storage capacity of the older servers.
Sun needs to offload this new work because it wants to focus more resources on a couple of even more advanced enterprise projects: the new multithreaded Rock and Niagara chips, which are expected to be introduced in 2006. "