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IBM is right back into spotlight. Ibm research lab scientists have been inspired by the self assembling proes pattern found in the formation of tooth enamel seashells and snowflakes. Applaying the principle behind these scientists there have built a next generation computer chi p using a special polymer.

IBM might not be in the microchip war but is has a legacy of its won . the y have always been show stoppers with their breakthrough . ibm has made at least 10 significant breakthroughs in the past few years . recall the cell processor integrating ibm’s power architecture. The industry wide problem of transistor leakage in chips was solved by ibm in January 2007 . a special material with superior electrical qualities was used in the primary on/off switching portion of the transistors which made them more power efficient. Ibm worked with amd . sony and thshiba in partnership for this development.

In february they replaced sram with the speedy edram on the 65nm microchip to be able to increase the on processor memory using about 33 % lesser space on the chip . in April ibm with their 3d chip stacking technique showed that stacking semiconductor components vertically instead of horizontally gave performance boosts and energy efficiency.

Processors the very word brings to mind numerical crunching monsters that eat a few thousand floating points for breakfast. This is one dominion of computing that enjoys big increments in performance every year of so Ever shrinking fabrication processes bring the all significant advantages of reducing costs and power saving .

The two giants intel and amd are locked in a struggle for top market dog. we’ve witnessed the fallout courtesy amd’s athlon64 a few years ago. More recently intel’s core 2 duo fuelled retaliation it came as a shock even to industry experts. the Gigahertz battle is a thing of the past and parallelism is the new order of things.

Intels’s core 2 duo desktop and notebook range will soon be replaced by a derivative of the same architecture code named penryn.

Penryn gets a die shrink from 65nm to 45nm. Code named wolfdale the duall core penryn features 6mb of l2 cace . the quad core penryn code named yorkfield ads 4mb over the core 2wuad’s 8mb l2 cache.

Besides minor architectural changes like reduction in processor instruction latency improver ipc and tweaks to the cache and memory management subsystems penryn’s improved thermal efficiency allows it to enjoy higher colcks thatn core 2. improvements have also been made in power management but this is restricted to the notebook space where thermal envelops are more restrictive.

Intel’s benchmarks indicate nearly 25% performance increments over core 2 . while such a large boost is exciting there’s even more…Nehalem a radical new architecture as intel pitches it takes the term multithreading to a whole new level. With native support for eight cores on a single die Nehalem has the industry salivating . although details of power management are sketchy intel’s quotes dynamic management which could mean independent power management for each core.

While talking about the fastest processors high bandwidth low latency memory and the newest batch of direct z10 cards we often forget the component that brings all these products together under a single roof . the motherboard is very little more than the sum of its chipsets with a hunk of silicon thrown in to hold everything. It ‘s this motherboard that dictates compatibility by allowing or restricting use of certain processors memory and other components. It may seem therefore that the motherboard dictates the choice of the other components. Wrong !

Motherboard chipsets have been evolving leading to improved products supporting newer processors primarily a well as other allied technologies. However made no mistake it’s been the processor industry that has largely dictated terms t chipset vendors even memory vendors for that matter.

YOUR HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF ARE THESE NEW CHIPSETS MERELY PLATFORMS TO HOUSE FASTER PROCESSORS?

This was due to thermal issues in particular. This brought about a major change in chipsets intel’s very own 875.865 gave way to their 935.965 chipsets emerge from 955.945 chipset based beards because of their incompatibility with the core 2 duo.

AMD has seen its share of changes and upheavals too . The move to DDR2 initiated by intels to complement its then latest Pentium d processors forced and to shift to a new platform as well am2 which brought ddr2 compatibility to and systems.

With their latest generation of processors amd and intels will be leaping to yet another platform . intel has lots of 45nm plans based around penryn their core 2 duo successor . This involves a new chipset code named bear lade aka th p35 . that will support these processors. This is the mid range offering replacing the p965 .There’s support for ddr2 and ddr3 memory 1333mhz fsb support a spanking new southbridge and more