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RSS chip amd opteron10 GbE Rising Factors Driving the Emergence of 10 Gigabit Ethernet
White Paper Industry trends such as Chip Multithreading (CMT), multicore CPUs such as CoolThreads, Intel Xeon, and AMD Opteron, blade computing, and virtualization are just a few of the significant... [04 Jul 2008]
Virtualisation - a CIO's best friend?
News Speaking at the launch of AMD's new Opteron quad-core server processor in Barcelona - which is touted by the chip-maker as very virtualisation-friendly by enabling more virtual machines... [14 Sep 2007]
The Benefits of Dual-Core Processors in High-Performance Computing
White Paper This paper examines the real-world advantages of dual-core processors; specifically how the new dual-core AMD Opteron processors benefit users in a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment. Typical... [29 May 2007]
Intel, AMD fight it out for market share
News In 2006, AMD won over Dell, the last of the four major server sellers to use Opteron servers. AMD fared better in desktops and laptops than it did with its Opteron... [31 Jan 2007]
Sun set to bring back Intel's Xeon for servers
News Sun pushed Intel out of its x86 server line in favour of AMD's Opteron in early 2005, saying Intel's chips were slower and more power-hungry, but Intel's new dual-core Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" and quad-core... [22 Jan 2007]
Intel confirms 10,500 job cuts by mid-2007
News AMD now owns 26 per cent of the server market, compared to virtually nothing before its Opteron processor arrived in 2003, and it thinks it can reach 40 per cent of that market by the end of the decade. [06 Sep 2006]
Intel poised to unleash high-end Xeon
News AMD's Opteron includes a built-in memory controller, while Intel systems require a separate chip that takes longer to fetch data. Last week, Intel said Tulsa boosts performance about 70... [29 Aug 2006]
Intel flaunts Xeon mark two
News AMD this week announced its new "Rev F" line of dual-core Opteron processors, which in 2007 will be supplanted by quad-core models that plug into the same "Socket F". Linux is popular chiefly on servers,... [17 Aug 2006]
AMD to buy ATI for $5.4bn
News AMD's Opteron family of processors has taken market share from Intel in some areas, though Intel still dominates the overall market and offers chipsets with integrated graphics capabilities. Beginning in... [24 Jul 2006]
Intel unveils 'lean, mean, AMD-busting' Xeon
News The Opteron processor has vaulted rival AMD from the hinterlands of the server market to a more than 20 per cent share, with its superior performance and power consumption. Pixar has both... [27 Jun 2006]
Dell does AMD deal
News Dell has agreed to use AMD's Opteron chip in multiprocessor servers by the end of the year, ending a long-standing policy of sticking exclusively with Intel. Ever since... [19 May 2006]
Google warns of spiralling hardware energy costs
News AMD's Opteron server processor consumes a maximum of 95W, while Intel's Xeon consumes between 110W and 165W. Power has also become an issue in the years-old rivalry between Intel and... [12 Dec 2005]
HP picks up blade guru RLX
News HP has its own array of blade servers, including dual-core models based on the Opteron chip from AMD. HP is adding to its server arsenal with the purchase of blade pioneer RLX... [04 Oct 2005]
Major tech firms back Itanium push
News Faced with steadily improving x86 processors such as its Xeon and AMD's Opteron, Intel has redefined Itanium as a chip chiefly for high-end servers. But Intel and its allies remain... [27 Sep 2005]
Longhorn Server to support Intel's Itanium
News The processor family's debut was marred by delays, poor performance and software incompatibility with servers using x86 processors such as AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon. And HP, which began the... [05 Sep 2005]
