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IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Roadrunner runs on 6,948 dual-core AMD Opteron chips on IBM Model LS21 blade servers, and 12,960 Cell engines on IBM Model QS22 blade servers. Cell broadband engines, used in the Play Station 3 (PS3), work in conjunction with AMD x86 processors. [11 Jun 2008]
AMD chips into business market
News AMD has released a series of chips which it claims has the stability and performance required for machines aimed at business users. The new line-up of business chips will include AMD Athlon and AMD Phenom processors for desktop machines. [29 Apr 2008]
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Solving the Dilemma of 32-Bit Versus 64-Bit Server Architecture
White Paper Many traditional IT shops now face a variant of the very same question posed by The Clash: to stay with RISC chips, or go with new 64-bit Intel AMD processors delivering almost equal or better computational power. [28 Mar 2008]
Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation
News Fowler said: "We got a special run of chips from AMD to make our commitments. First, AMD delayed the Barcelona processors that go inside the computer. But it wasn't all AMD, Fowler said. Sun will later release more standard Barcelona servers when... [14 Feb 2008]
Minority Report: MacBook Air - slim chance of success?
Comment All three featured the G4 chips, which lagged badly behind Intel and AMD chips at the time. But then the MacBook Air arrived. Hit or miss? Seb Janacek assesses its chances. In July 2000 Apple launched the G4 Cube, a ground-breaking desktop computer... [06 Feb 2008]
Beep beep! Move over for IBM's super Roadrunner
News Processor manufacturer AMD still ranked number two but saw the number of computers with its chips decline from 105 six months ago to 78 today. The company is working on a computer nicknamed 'Roadrunner' that will combine Cell processors - a family... [13 Nov 2007]
Virtualisation - a CIO's best friend?
News Asked why a CIO should buy AMD's chips, Giuseppe Amato, director, technical marketing at AMD, pointed to server virtualisation and server consolidation as a means for IT chiefs "to be sure of the trajectory on the costs" for running server farms. [14 Sep 2007]
AMD makes friends in the Linux community
News The initial driver will support AMD's ATI Radeon X1000 and HD 2000 graphics chips, the company said, and AMD will release new details to help open source work as new products come to market. AMD will still develop the proprietary graphics driver as... [07 Sep 2007]
AMD's quad-core chip to launch next month
News The delay, along with Intel price cuts, forced AMD to significantly discount the prices of its dual-core server chips to compete and eroded its profits. AMD is set to officially launch Barcelona in September, six months behind schedule due to the... [21 Aug 2007]
Intel signs up to $100 laptop
News Intel will become the 11th member of the OLPC's board, joining other companies such as eBay, Google, Nortel and Intel's bitter rival AMD. At the moment, AMD is the silicon supplier for the XO laptop. As a result, both AMD and Intel see a huge... [16 Jul 2007]
Intel: 'Software must learn to do Moore'
News Already, chipmakers such as AMD and Intel are delivering processors that have multiple brains, or cores, rather than single brains that run ever faster. After years of delivering faster and faster chips that can easily boost the performance of most... [29 May 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 processors chips contain one processor core... [29 May 2007]
AMD Uses Customization Technology to Personalize Windows Vista User Experience
White Paper AMD had become successful in the market for high-end video graphics chips and cards by taking a low profile - and letting its OEM and other customers customize the products with their own distinctive identities. [22 May 2007]
AMD touts lean, mean 'Centrino-busting' chip
News Griffin will go into mass production towards the end of the year and Puma-based laptops sporting the chips will hit in mid-2008, according to AMD fellow Maurice Steinman. The chip maker sells chips tweaked for laptops now but these products are... [18 May 2007]
Oracle Unbreakable Linux: An Overview
White Paper The support program, which is available for any customer whether or not they're running Oracle, currently supports two architectures, x86 and the latest Intel and AMD chips, such as Xeon and Opteron (x86-64) as used by most of the Linux users. [11 May 2007]
