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US firm vies for Opteron packaging excess crownOpen in New Window
"The Register excessive packaging monitoring sub-committee is obliged to Jay Coleman who earlier this week sent photographic evidence of how US firm CDW has made its..." read more »
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Intel denies Core i7 glitchOpen in New Window
"Intel was tilting at the internet rumor mill this morning as word circulated that its newly-launched Core i7 chips suffer from a technical glitch similar to the one that previously dogged AMD's Ph read more »
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HP Offers AMD Shanghai-Based WorkstationOpen in New Window
Antone Gonsalves of Information Week writes on HP's new offering the xw9400 incorporating AMD's new quad core Opteron release known as Shangai."The HP xw9400 is built for creative professionals, d read more »
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AMD grabs for the data centre with low-power server chipOpen in New Window
AMD is releasing a new HE (high efficiency) Opteron quad-core chip. It is being marketed towards cost efficient data centers as it fits within a 50 watt thermal envelope. read more »
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PS3's Cell CPU tops high-performance computing benchmarkOpen in New Window
A UC Berkley paper recently ran an analysis of Cell's, Niagara2, Opteron, Xeon and Itanium. The purpose was to evaluate for High Performance Computing. Conclusion: Cell won, Xeon bombed on bandwidt read more »
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four-core Opteron servers arriveOpen in New Window
Quadcore servers based on AMD's Barcelona architecture are finally arriving. Up this month are Dell, Fujitsu, and soon Sun, Super Micro, Rackable Systems. read more »
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Iranian computing center removes photos of Opteron system from Web siteOpen in New Window
The Iranian High Performance Computing Research Center (IHPCRC) has removed photos from its website which showed Iranian researchers building a supercomputer that utilizes AMD Opteron CPUs. This has read more »
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