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Pentium 4 loophole could let in hackers

News Intel is acting to calm fears that technology in its Pentium 4 processors will enable hackers to steal passwords by reading 'footprints' in the cache. The attack, revealed on Friday in a paper delivered at the BDSCan conference in Ottawa, relies on...

17 May 2005, 9:27

Dell Core Duo laptops inadvertently revealed

News Dell's future laptops were briefly exposed by Google's search engine on Tuesday, before the spreadsheet was removed from a Dell FTP site and from Google's cache. The search engine keeps a cache of pages from the last time it crawled the Web, but...

2 February 2006, 10:28

AMD releases back-to-school dual-core Athlon

News The Athlon 64 X2 3800+ will run at 2GHz and each core will have a 512KB secondary cache for rapid data retrieval. The Athlon 64 X2 4200+, for instance, has the same size cache but runs at 2.2GHz. AMD has released a new version of its dual-core...

1 August 2005, 9:17

Photos: Intel boasts six-core chip

News It contains a 16MB L3 cache, is socket compatible with the Caneland platform, and is made for virtualisation.Credit: Intel Intel says its new quad-core Tukwila chip will have 2 billion processors and a 30MB cache.

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19 March 2008, 9:28

Alternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuths

News They know the location of the IE browser cache, cookie files and history and know how to read those files. Lewis, who works for risk consulting company Kroll, gave attendees more tips on how to read the cache, history and cookie files that Firefox...

1 September 2005, 8:36

Intel spills beans on Yonah, the next laptop chip

News Current dual-core desktop chips from AMD and Intel come with similar-sized caches, but each core accesses only 1MB of cache memory dedicated to it. Sharing the cache will significantly boost performance.

3 June 2005, 9:47

Vista may require hybrid drive tech

News Hybrid hard drives save power, as they use solid-state flash memory as a large cache, so the hard drive only spins up when the cache is full or needs refreshing, a useful feature with early betas of Vista criticised for draining batteries too fast.

19 June 2006, 10:11

Google speed bump draws scorn

News Web Accelerator does not cache secure Web sites in the programming language "HTTPF" such as banking or credit card pages, however, so data such as financial transactions are not at stake. Mayer said the problem happens only on a small number of...

9 May 2005, 9:02

Intel strikes back with next-gen chips

News And chips built on that microarchitecture will also share the unified cache introduced with the Core Duo processor, Eden said. Chips built with NGMA will use 4MB of cache memory, Eden said. Cache memory stores frequently used data on the chip...

20 February 2006, 11:02

Intel prepares massive multicore CPUs

News Early indications show that improved cache management could improve overall chip performance by 10 to 20 per cent, according to Intel. As is the case with the look and feel of technology for heterogeneous chips, programmers won't, ideally, have to...

15 June 2007, 9:21

Intel's Yonah chip is hungry for power

News One change will include a 4MB cache. The T1600 Yonah -- which runs at 2.16GHz, comes with a 2MB cache and a 667MHz bus -- will sell for $637 (£365). That's the same as the top-end 2.26GHz Pentium M, which has a 2MB cache, or reservoir of memory...

12 October 2005, 10:04

Driving Vista in the fast lane

News It might help on a 128MB system that flushes the cache away very fast, but on a 1GB system I doubt it can make a significant difference, and at first glance, it doesn't seem to be worth the complexity it would introduce," the Imola, Italy-based...

9 August 2005, 10:51

IBM details new PowerPC chips

News What's novel about the 970MP's design is that each of the two 64-bit cores has its own dedicated 1MB of level-two cache memory. IBM has released details about two new PowerPC chips designed for entry-level servers and PCs.

11 July 2005, 11:17

PS3 component prices fuel debate

News Cache is typically cheaper to manufacture than logic transistors, which own more of the real estate on Cell. A greater percentage of the real estate on the Xbox 360 chip, also from IBM, is given up to cache memory.

24 February 2006, 9:45

PlayStation 3 stats spotlighted

News CPU: Cell Processor• PowerPC-base Core @ 3.2GHz• 1 VMX vector unit per core• 512KB L2 cache• 7 x SPE @ 3.2GHz• 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs• 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE• 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy• total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPSGPU...

18 May 2005, 9:27