Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: In-Stat
Published: January 2005
Product Code: R97-1922Description This report spotlights the most innovative processors of 2004 in the Desktop, Mobile PC, and Server categories. To be selected as a nominee, products must have been available in sample or production quantities during 2004. The nominations were based on the best public information available to our analysts in December 2004.
Each of the three sections begins with a year-in-review article naming the winner of the Microprocessor Report Analysts' Choice Awards for 2004 in that category. What follows is a gathering of Microprocessor Report articles focused on the processors nominated in the each category.Table of Contents Table
of Contents
- Introduction
- Desktop Processors
- Best Desktop PC Processor of 2004
- Close Race, but One Stands
Above the Rest
- Desktop
Goes Dual Core in 2005
- IBM Takes
the Lead
- Performance Is Close to x86
Rivals
- System Interface Sets Speed
Record
- AMD vs.
Intel in Dual-Core Duel
- Sempron?
What’s a Sempron?
- Getting
the Message Out
- Intel Launches Grantsdale Chipset
- PCI
Express Modifies the System Architecture
- Migration
to DDR2 and Enhanced RAID
- Integrated
Graphics Supporting DirectX 9.0
- Audio
and Wireless Features for the Home
- Good
Without the Hype
- Mobile PC
Processors
- Best Mobile
PC Processor of 2004
- More
Exciting Mobile Processors to Come
- Intel Beats
Intel for Mobile Crown
- Last-Minute
Controversy Is Par for the Course
- Intel’s
PC Roadmap Sees Double
- Hitting
the Power Wall
- Did
AMD See “The Right-Hand Turn” Signal?
- How Is
Intel Really Doing?
- Intel
Still on the Leading Edge of Technology
- Intel
Makes Some Visible Mistakes
- What
Does This Mean to the World’s Largest Chip Vendor?
- The
Future: What Should We Expect From Intel?
- AMD Revises
’05 Processor Roadmap
- Server Processors
- Best Servers
of 2004
- ISSCC Promises
Progress
- Memory
Density Rises, Power Plummets
- Application-Specific
Processors Flourish
- Apple Debuts
90nm G5 in Xserve
- Sun Rolls
Forward With Rock
- Intel Addresses
the 64-Bit Question
- Itanium
Roadmap Presages Xeon Conflict
- A
Bright Spot in Intel’s Future
- AMD and
Intel Harmonize on 64
- Deciphering
the Nomenclature
- Comparing
64-Bit Instruction Sets
- Faster
Context Switching in x86-64
- Deleted
Instructions and Strange Differences
- Register
Files Are Fully Compatible
- Memory
Becomes Bigger and Flatter
- 64-Bit
Compatibility Good for Industry
- Intel
and AMD Manuals Sing Similar Tunes
- A Tale
of Two Instructions
- SAHF
and LAHF: Never Say Die
- Can’t
We All Just Get Along?
- SPARC’s
New Roadmap
- Rock
Gets a Push
- If SPARC
Fizzles
- Sun’s
Niagara Pours on the Cores
- Gulliver vs.
the Highly Threaded Lilliputians
- Double
Your Opterons; Double Your Fun
- Building
the First Dual-Core AMD Processor
- The
Cores Get Enhancements As Well
- Performance
Scaling
- AMD
Still Has More Work to Do
- The
CMP Story Continues to Unfold
- SPARC Turns
90nm
- Fujitsu
Doubles Cores and Threads for APL
- Bringing
Power to the People
- Fifteen
Companies Join IBM’s Bandwagon
- The
China Connection
of Tables
- Table 1.Top desktop processors for 2004.
- Table 2. Summary of Intel chipsets.
- Table 3. Latest generations of mobile processors
available in 2004.
- Table 4. Intel’s new 2H05–1H06
processor roadmap.
- Table 5. Power consumption for different
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