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RSS core quad in newsAMD chips into business market
News The Business Class desktop CPUs unveiled include the quad-core Phenom X4 9600B, the triple-core Phenom X3 9600B, the dual-core Athlon X2 4450B and the single-core Athlon 1640B. AMD has released a series of chips which it claims has the stability... [29 Apr 2008]
Broadband summit: Speed is the key
News Q is for Quad-play Companies including BT - which has invested billions in overhauling its core network to an all-IP network known as the 21CN - and Virgin Media, which has announced plans to roll out an up to 50Mbps broadband service by the end of... [27 Nov 2007]
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 to be run per server - Ingle said: "This is all about data. [14 Sep 2007]
AMD's quad-core chip to launch next month
News AMD is set to officially launch Barcelona in September, six months behind schedule due to the quad-core server processor's "complicated" design, according to CEO Hector Ruiz. The company claims that this will deliver better performance than Intel's... [21 Aug 2007]
Microsoft strips features from 'Viridian'
News And it will only support computers with a maximum of 16 processing cores-for example, eight dual-core chips or four quad-core chips. Microsoft said on Thursday it is pulling features out of the initial version of its 'Viridian' hypervisor to avoid... [11 May 2007]
Sun burned brighter than server rivals last year
News He attributed the change to slowed purchases from customers, who were anticipating new models with quad-core processors. Sun Microsystems, bruised by years of trying to recover from the dot-com bust, saw revenue gains that beat server rivals in... [23 Feb 2007]
Intel, AMD fight it out for market share
News Intel's 'Clovertown' processor, which squeezes two Woodcrest chips into a quad-core package, "made a meaningful contribution to their business in the fourth quarter. Quad core is starting to happen fairly quickly", McCarron said. [31 Jan 2007]
Intel's Xeon back in the Sun
News John Fowler, Sun's executive vice president for servers, said: "Woodcrest and Clovertown are substantially improved technology," referring to the dual-core and quad-core Xeon processors geared for dual-processor servers. [23 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 Xeon 5300 "Clovertown" processors have... [22 Jan 2007]
BT hooks up first 21CN customers
News Q is for Quad-play The 21CN project is BT's plan to switch its copper circuit-switched networks to a single IP-based core infrastructure, with a price tag of £10bn over five years. Broadband from A to Z [28 Nov 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". Tulsa, a dual-core processor, is the last of the ill-fated NetBurst lineage of... [17 Aug 2006]
Dell to crank up the heat on AMD love-in
News All Rev F models have dual processing cores; systems built for Rev F chips will also accommodate quad-core successors due in 2007. Intel's Woodcrest processors are dual-core chips but Intel in 2006 plans to release an upgrade which packages two in... [17 Aug 2006]
Intel unveils 'lean, mean, AMD-busting' Xeon
News Right now, Pixar is planning to purchase systems based on Woodcrest and Cloverton, a quad-core processor scheduled to emerge next year, he said. The features of Intel's new Core micro-architecture, such as a larger and more sophisticated cache... [27 Jun 2006]
Apple boosts G5 line-up
News The new Power Mac G5 Quad has two 2.5GHz dual-core PowerPC G5 processors. Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said in a statement: "With quad-core processing, a new PCI Express architecture and the fastest... [20 Oct 2005]
