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| AMD Brings More Power to Its Opterons Lineup |  | Although AMD has a lot of ground to recover in the high-end and high-performance consumer market, the company still holds a strong position in the energy-efficient processor market. To be more exact, its Opterons account for a high number of server systems, as they provide the necessary performance with a minimum of energy requirements. Recently, AMD has updated its quad-core Opteron server processors with four new models.
Wit ... [read more >>] | | 09 June 2008, 10:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sun Adds AMD Chips to Its Quad-Core Server Offering |  | Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems has just announced the availability of new server systems equipped with Advanced Micro Devices' quad-core Barcelona chips. The AMD-based servers are the result of a long collaboration between the two manufacturers and aim at giving a cost-effective alternative to the Intel-powered counterparts.
According to Sun, the three new servers in the Fire family come with hardware configurations ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2008, 06:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Goes Greener with New Energy-Efficient Quad-Core Opteron Lineup |  | AMD might have lost the race with Intel in terms of processor performance and core count, but it still rules on the energy-efficient CPU market. The company has just unveiled a new highly-efficient quad-core Opteron line-up, primarily targeted at data center and corporate servers.
According to the company, the new CPU offerings are the industry's first energy-efficient x86 server processor running on four cores. The chip sports an ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 05:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Another AMD Executive Flees Away From the Sinking Boat |  | AMD has lost yet another key executive, as Stephen DiFranco, the company’s corporate vice president of consumer sales and marketing resigned. The chip manufacturer silently announced its departure from the company, and it is alleged that DiFranco was rushed out on the back door mostly because of the company's poor performance during the first quarter of 2008.
DiFranco's job was to promote AMD's processors on the ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dell: Back In Business With Four Opteron Server Configurations |  | Computer manufacturer Dell has just added four new Barcelona-powered offerings to its server portfolio. The new servers are part of the PowerEdge SC1435 family, built around AMD's quad-core Opteron chips in the B3 silicon stepping.
The company's new products include four different Opteron 2300 series processors to power its PowerEdge SC1435 system. The chips are alleged to work at frequencies of between 2.0 GHz and ... [read more >>] | | 16 April 2008, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's Supercomputers Shape Formula 1 Cars |  | High-power computing solutions provider Appro announced that it has started deploying a new supercomputer at Renault's formula 1 headquarters in Enstone. According to the company, the new supercomputer will be exclusively built with AMD's Barcelona server processors with the B3 silicon revision.
Although Formula 1 high-performance computing is an extremely small niche, the new supercomputer might tighten the competit ... [read more >>] | | 12 April 2008, 06:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Sees Eight-Core Processors Coming in 2009 |  | Advanced Micro Devices has just unveiled its new series of quad-core server chips, and rumors about eight-core processors have already started to pop up. According to Randy Allen, corporate vice president of server and workstation division at AMD, the eight-core chips are slated to arrive in 2009.
Before the wight-core behemoths arrive, AMD will release its 45-nanometer quad-core line-up, codenamed Shanghai. The chips will arr ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's Barcelona Chips Hit the Shelves in Eight Distinct Models |  | Chip manufacturer Advanced micro Devices has just announced public availability of its Barcelona quad-core server processors. The chips have finally arrived at the local retailers, after six months of continual delays because of the crippling TLB erratum bug affecting its silicon.
"We're off to the races now, and the product is out," said John Fruehe, worldwide market development manager at AMD. "All of the ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 08:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Confirms Tri-Core Phenom Processors Roll-Out |  | Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices has started shipments of tri-core processors in the Phenom family. According to company officials, the first to get the new chips are, as previously reported, system integrators and AMD's OEM partners.
The f ... [read more >>] | | 14 March 2008, 11:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The B3-Stepping Opterons Are Now Available |  | AMD has just started shipping Opteron and Phenom processors in the long-awaited B3 silicon revision. After more than five months of continuous delays, the chip manufacturer has started shipping the first B3 processors to system integrators and its OEM partners.
The B3 silicon revision of the Opteron family can be easily identified by the "GH" branding, rather than B2's "GD" value stamped at the end of ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 05:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| CeBIT 2008: AMD Introduces 45-Nanometer Chips |  | Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices has introduced its 45-nanometer Opteron chips with Shanghai core and the 45 Phenoms in the Deneb core family at yesterday's public conference. The company is still far from releasing the chips for mass-availability, yet this is a proof that AMD is still in track with the 2008 release.
The AMD officials refused to detail upon any of the chip's technical specifications, such as ... [read more >>] | | 05 March 2008, 08:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's Tolimans to Arrive This Week |  | Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices will introduce its newest tri-core processors in the Toliman family later this week. The first PC vendors to grab the units are, of course, Hewlett-Packard and Dell. Dell has already announced a new series of low-end computers based on AMD's Tolimans, while HP will introduce its computers later this week.
Dell has announced new computers in the Optiplex family. Designed to aim at t ... [read more >>] | | 19 February 2008, 03:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Kyoto University Has Ordered an AMD-Based Supercomputer |  | The Japanese University of Kyoto has just placed an order for an AMD Opteron-based supercomputer. The machine will be built using 416 HX600 high-performance computers built by Fujitsu. Each computer is powered by four quad-core Opteron processors, which means that the cluster totals 1,664 processors and 6,656 Opteron cores.
"This new supercomputer system upgrade represents a significant departure from our past procurement ... [read more >>] | | 16 February 2008, 07:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Montalvo Cooks Opteron and Cell Hybrid Processor, Takes Intel Down |  | Montalvo Systems is secretly designing a new breed of energy-efficient multicore processor. The company has finished the design of a chip aimed at mobile computing. When it gets finished, it will be compatible with all the x86 software that can run on both AMD and Intel chips.
Despite the software compatibility, the chips built by Montalvo systems will be radically different from any existing chip design. For instance, its cor ... [read more >>] | | 15 February 2008, 03:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's Storage Systems Continue to Sell Well |  | AMD has just announced that its storage systems product line continues to face strong demands on the market. The 20 storage systems that bear AMD's brand are built on the company's Direct Connect Architecture. The latest addition to the series is the Sun Microsystems StorageTek™ 5800 "Honeycomb" system.
The storage platforms are available worldwide (except for Iran and Irak, who are under the US trade restr ... [read more >>] | | 23 January 2008, 09:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Xeons vs. Opterons: the Benchmark Clash |  | The eternal confrontation between Intel's and AMD's processors has been sanctioned by an independent benchmark lab situated in the outskirts of Chicago. The object of attention was the CPU manufacturers' server line of processors, namely Intel's Xeons and AMD's Opterons.
The lab's manager, Neal Nelson, has run an extensive test on quad-cored Xeons and compared them to the Opteron benchmark result ... [read more >>] | | 15 January 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD to Spread Barcelona Misery Equally to All Partners |  | Earlier this month, AMD has stopped all the shipments of quad-core Opteron processors due to a product glitch. The company has issued a workaround that heavily affects the system performance, but, at least, gave it the opportunity of delivering "tens of thousands" of processors to HPC builders and to some other select customers. The vast majority, however, will have to wait for the redesigned version, due to arrive in t ... [read more >>] | | 20 December 2007, 02:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dirk Meyer and AMD's Achievements List |  | The achievements AMD has been enjoying in the last year have been shaded by the launch and delivery pit stop because of their quad-core lines. These issues prevent AMD from keeping their promise to their customers and force the company to delay the shipment of several products until the first quarter of 2008.
The most affected lines are Phenoms and Barcelonas, the long-awaited and the extremely hated, at the same time. The company even ... [read more >>] | | 13 December 2007, 10:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Iranian Illegal Supercomputer, Missing in Action |  | Not long ago, I have talked about the Iranian High Performance Computing Research Center (IHPCRC) having built an AMD Opteron based supercomputer. Having a high performance computer may not look like a criminal act, but, when applied to this specific country, it ... [read more >>] | | 12 December 2007, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Fiddles Violin for 504 GB of Memory per System |  | AMD and memory producer Violin Memory are working closely on what can be called Opteron servers stuffed with memory. Complains about lack of memory creating bottlenecks have become an international sport. Well, on the opposite, what would happen if users had plenty of RAM and they could not find any use for it anymore? AMD and Violin are in such a position and they are walking hand in hand for achieving interconnectivity between huge DRAM ... [read more >>] | | 11 December 2007, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Iranians Have Confirmed Owning an Opteron Supercomputer |  | An Iranian computer research center in Tehran claims to have built a supercomputer out of AMD's Opteron processors. This is alleged to be the Middle Eastern country's most powerful supercomputer. Many people would rush to congratulate the Iranians for the new technological achievement but there is a big "but" regarding this: the United States has imposed federal antiterrorism trade regulations that strictly prohibit the ... [read more >>] | | 07 December 2007, 04:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's Barcelonas, no Pit-Stop, but Ship-Stop |  | If you ever thought that things can not go worse, AMD is the exception that can confirm the rule. The more time passes, the more processors AMD discovers to suffer from the infamous TLB errata. The four-core Opteron chips are apparently available on the market, but they seem to benefit from customer-proof protection, since they are not to be found in any retailers' store. More than that, simply asking the personnel would bring you the ... [read more >>] | | 06 December 2007, 03:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Quad-Core Opteron to Sweep the Floor With Intel's Xeon, Says AMD |  | The dual-core Opteron line from AMD is alleged to be up to 15 percent more efficient than Intel's Xeon division under the newest SPECcpu2006 benchmarks. AMD have started boasting their benchmark testing results, that show a 50% increase in integer and floating-point performance in the quad-core line, compared to the dual-core Opterons. Moreover, AMD's website is full of buzzing advice regarding correct benchmarking pro ... [read more >>] | | 28 November 2007, 03:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Joins the Eclipse Foundation |  | The Eclipse Foundation is one of the most important groups that are aimed at providing developers with a comprehensive set of tools and software development kits and frameworks in order to simplify the creation and deployment of open source applications based on popular and widely spread programming languages like Java and C. This group just gained an important ally as the second largest central processing unit manufacturing comp ... [read more >>] | | 10 October 2007, 08:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD vs Intel: The Performance War Continues |  | Which is better, AMD or Intel? This question is the driving force that led to the recently consumed price war and now it leads to a whole new series of benchmarks and comparisons between the newest quad core Advanced Micro Devices processors aimed at servers and their Intel made counterparts. In order to come up with a unified way of measuring processors' performance under controlled conditions, the latest offerings from AMD and Intel ... [read more >>] | | 28 September 2007, 10:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Scali Announces High Benchmark Result for AMD's Quad-core CPUs |  | Almost immediately after the official launch of the quad core server intended central processing units from Advanced Micro Devices, a number of rumors started circulating about their performance level relative to similar solutions from Intel. While the general consensus was that AMD's products are offering better performance when reported at the energy consumption level or at the pricing policy, hard numbers were sadly lacking.
Unt ... [read more >>] | | 14 September 2007, 07:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's K10 Family to Support DDR3 Memory |  | While Advanced Micro Devices promised a central processing unit architecture that will revolutionize computing experience for both the server and the consumer segments thanks to a larger number of cores and some innovative technologies, it looks as if the manufacturing company did not mention to its clients one important aspect of the hardware makeup that is to be found on these processors. The new generation of Advanced Micro Devices proc ... [read more >>] | | 13 September 2007, 10:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microway Starts Shipping AMD Based Servers |  | As the central processing unit manufacturing company Advanced Micro Devices announced this week the launch of its quad core based generation of processors, many server producers announced entire lines of products that are based on the new and improved AMD CPUs. Among those server producers there is the Microway company which just announced the release of its line of Navion-QQ server systems which are all based on the new Opteron chips. Whi ... [read more >>] | | 13 September 2007, 08:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gateway's Servers Meet AMD's Opterons |  | After Advanced Micro Devices officially announced the launch of its new quad core central processing units which are designed to offer a high level of performance in an enterprise environment, a number of server manufacturers and system integrators also announced their intentions of adding the new hardware platform to their product offerings. Among those server manufacturing companies, there is Gateway, the third largest United States supp ... [read more >>] | | 12 September 2007, 10:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD to Launch 2.5GHz Quad Core Opterons in December |  | When Advanced Micro Devices officially launched their quad core central processing units two days ago, most of the server manufacturers felt just a little bit cheated as the company presented only processors with a low clock speed, which tops at 2.0GHz. AMD stated that higher clocked quad core processors based on the Barcelona architecture are going be become available in about two months and they will sport frequencies of around 2.5GHz as ... [read more >>] | | 12 September 2007, 08:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's Quad Core Processors Are Finally Here |  | Advanced Micro Devices, AMD for short, today officially launched its native quad core processors under the codename Barcelona and the commercial name of Opteron. This launch is of utmost importance for the small company as it marks the day when it regains competitive status against Intel, as its quad core processors intended for server use are finally here. According to the manufacturing company, the Quad Core AMD Opteron processor product ... [read more >>] | | 10 September 2007, 06:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's Quad Core Processors Starting at $206 |  | With only days to go before the official launch of its first line of central processing unit that are built using a quad core design, AMD releases pricing information for two of the incoming series of processors, the Opteron 2300 and 8300 families. The 2300 and 8300 series will be officially launched this month and they will come with running frequencies between 1.7 and 2.0GHz.
The long awaited quad core processors codenamed B ... [read more >>] | | 05 September 2007, 02:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Barcelona CPUs Shipping Since August |  | The launch of a new computer hardware part is always a pretty tense moment as the manufacturing company can not really know how its product will be received by the market and the tension is going even higher when a lot of things are depending on a single line of products. This is exactly the case with the next generation of AMD processors, the Barcelonas, which are the first monolithic "true" native quad core processors in the wo ... [read more >>] | | 03 September 2007, 06:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Expands Its Dual Core Line |  | Even as days go by and the Barcelona class of processors is just around the corner, Advanced Micro Devices thinks that the dual core processors intended for use in servers and the like are still having a future ahead, so the company announced the launch of a new line of Opteron class processors with running frequency of 3.2GHz.
The new Opteron processors are part of the high performance Special Edition, SE for short, family of products ... [read more >>] | | 01 September 2007, 06:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Talks About Barcelona Processors |  | There were a lot of rumors flying on the World Wide Web about the next generation of AMD processors, the Barcelonas and to the delight of the competing company, most of them pointed to low clock speeds and equally low performance marks alongside with development problems and so on. Now, with only a few days before the much awaited launch, AMD steps up and talks about the first native processor quad core design in the world releasing a numb ... [read more >>] | | 31 August 2007, 03:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Will Launch 2 Barcelona Processors |  | After the official announcement that the Barcelona based quad core processors will be launched on the 10th of September, several server makers said that the manufacturing company, AMD, will launch two and not one processor. The server intended Barcelona will arrive with the established name of Opteron in the form of a pair designed for two slot machines. Another server intended Barcelona is expected to see the market in October.
... [read more >>] | | 13 August 2007, 04:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's New Prices for CPUs |  | AMD is trying hard to keep its market share despite increasing pressure from Intel and the company does this by slashing the prices of an entire line of processors designed for the server market segment. These price reductions will affect both single and dual core Opteron processors based on the 740 and the F sockets. All in all, seven Opteron models based on the 940 socket will soon be cheaper: the dual core models 290, 285, 280 ... [read more >>] | | 07 August 2007, 04:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Processors Are More Energy Efficient Than Intel's |  | There is a war going on. A war between AMD and Intel that started just as soon as the first AMD designed and produced x86 compatible processor came on the market. For a long time, Intel was the undisputed leader in the processor market and the driving force of innovation in the entire computer hardware industry. Then with the first Athlon series processors from AMD the situation changed dramatically and Intel was finally forced to take a d ... [read more >>] | | 21 July 2007, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's Quad Cores are Running Late |  | Lately the CPU world has been suffering from some serious architectural changes. While that happens pretty often, such a change generally ends up as a new technology ready to be integrated in a future CPU. Well it seems that not everything can go as smooth as it should since it seems that AMD has suffered from some serious failures that could affect the shippings of the new K10 cores.
A quick tour of the K10 architecture rev ... [read more >>] | | 13 June 2007, 09:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Updates Barcelona Specifications |  | On the brink of evolution/extinction, AMD is releasing some interesting performance updates for its Barcelona series of processors. Today is the 23rd of April, the day AMD is going to unveil the R600 graphics chipset and corresponding graphics cards and a new series of x86 processors. This may also be the beginning of the end, for if their marketing strategy doesn't pay off, they would be left in the gutter and Intel will on ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2007, 03:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Brings Out the Big Guns |  | In today's economy, in order for an action to succeed, it must be backed-up by solid facts, or better said, by a large enough pocket to sponsor the desired action. Therefore, taking action will result in progress (hypothetically speaking in the best-case scenario), and progress has a number of factors which define it; bigger is considered better, faster means more, cheaper also means more, and looking at progress with intell ... [read more >>] | | 06 April 2007, 10:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New AMD Opterons for Intel's Disliking |  | Sometimes it makes me wonder why would Intel go to so much trouble to take out a company such as AMD, which, after all, doesn't have the same market share or influence as the power hog. Maybe it's just the way it's got to be between giants, like McDonalds and KFC, or Mercedes and Audi. And if by any chance when or if AMD will flood the market with superior quality products, the way it has done in the past, there is ... [read more >>] | | 05 April 2007, 11:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| SUN Introduces AMD Opteron Based Rack Server |  | Adding to their long line on products, Sun Microsystems has introduced the Netra X4200 M2 server, the first Network Equipment Building Standard (NEBS) Level 3 Certified rack server that Sun has built. It uses AMD Opteron processors with an estimated price of $9.845 for the 2-socket version of the Netra X4200 server and $6.145 for the 1-socket version.
Mark Butler, Netra systems product line director, Sun Microsystems said: &qu ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2007, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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