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I would like to know more about the Ct technology and the products that are going to support this new programming language / extensions....

Gastón C. Hillar
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3,181
Status Points:
3,181
Black Belt
June 25, 2009 9:23 PM PDT
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Why do 64-bit mode integer division is less performant on core i7 than in 32-bit mode?During participating in Intel contest I've discovered that optimising code for 64 bit mode not always gives us per...

eustas
Total Points:
1,625
Status Points:
1,125
Brown Belt
June 25, 2009 11:56 PM PDT
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I would like to know at what level is Intel's involvement with future technologies. If you take a look at the press release involving Microsoft's vision of 2019, these are some of the technologies I a...

decessus
Total Points:
106
Status Points:
56
Green Belt
June 27, 2009 12:02 AM PDT
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Tell me more about what Intel software is working on to reduce the energy consumption and improve energy efficiency for Intel products....

Rishi
Total Points:
98
Status Points:
48
Green Belt
July 1, 2009 11:52 AM PDT
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My question is simple - how is Intel striving to put computing power to the next level: 128 bit or above?...

geekazine
Total Points:
76
Status Points:
26
Green Belt
July 9, 2009 12:41 AM PDT
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wonder when intel will offer some concurrency related optimization tools or libraries for Java. Also I guess hardware assisted GC diagnosis or performance profiling is possible. IBM just published a n...

Bernd Eckenfels
Total Points:
59
Status Points:
9
Green Belt
July 14, 2009 10:04 PM PDT
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I want to know what algorithms used in floating-point unit to calculate the values of transcendental functions (sin, cos, exp...)...

ksili
Total Points:
4,113
Status Points:
3,613
Brown Belt
July 22, 2009 7:58 PM PDT