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AMD's Barcelona not a savior, yet

September 10, 2007 After a delay, Barcelona is here, but is it the clear winner AMD promised it would be? That's uncertain. TAGS: Barcelona, AMD Opteron, quad-core, AMD, high-performance, power consumption, server, workstation, category, Intel

Secret recipe inside Intel's latest competitor

February 15, 2008 Montalvo Systems has a multiple-core chip, but not all of the cores are the same. That in part explains why investors have put money into it. TAGS: Transmeta Corp., portable computer, multi-core processor, AMD Opteron, high-performance, AMD, Intel, IBM Corp., CEO, Toshiba, notebook computer, Sony Corp.

Loss of momentum for feisty AMD

January 12, 2007 While Intel stumbled, underdog AMD had quite a run. Now a profit warning may have it back on the defensive. TAGS: Intel Xeon, AMD, Citigroup Inc., profit, PC company, high-performance, Intel, quad-core, dual-core, server, ATI Technologies, PC

ClearSpeed boosts IBM cluster performance

June 27, 2006 IBM's System Cluster 1350 is getting a floating-point boost from a specialized co-processor developed by ClearSpeed. TAGS: coprocessor, IBM Corp., high-performance computing, clustering, high-performance, AMD Opteron, server, AMD, motherboard, Intel

Intel boosts virtualization with quad-core Xeons

August 14, 2007 Two processors launched this week are designed for high-performance server and workstation applications. TAGS: quad-core, Intel Xeon, virtualization, VMware, Intel, AMD, supplier, high-performance, workstation, server

Sun frowns on HyperTransport expansion

February 27, 2006 A leading AMD proponent rejects technology that could increase the importance of communication tech built into AMD chips. TAGS: HyperTransport, Sun Microsystems Inc., AMD Opteron, x86 server, AMD, high-performance, PCI, PCI Express, adapter, motherboard, server

AMD gains, Intel fights back on supercomputer list

November 13, 2006 Some joy for both chipmakers in the latest Top500 supercomputer list, which rates high-performance computing systems. TAGS: supercomputer, supercomputing, teraflop, AMD Opteron, high-performance computing, two-processor, x86 processor, Sun Sparc, AMD, chip company, Intel, Sun Microsystems Inc., high-performance, IBM Corp.

Sun releases smaller blade chassis

November 14, 2006 New Blade 8000 P is a smaller model than its predecessor and is geared for high-performance technical computing.Photo: Sun's latest blade TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., blade, four-processor server, business computing, Silicon Graphics Inc., Sun Blade, AMD Opteron, high-performance, AMD, server, Intel

Sun Grid to launch this week

March 21, 2006 After struggling to release public version of computing infrastructure, Sun says it's ironed out the wrinkles. TAGS: Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., high-performance computing, grid, high-performance, blog, AMD, U.S.

Liquid Computing launches high-end server

October 31, 2006 Ottawa-based start-up begins selling flexible machines that house dozens of AMD Opteron processors. TAGS: AMD Opteron, high-end server, high-performance computing, x86 server, Ottawa, high-performance, server, AMD

Fujitsu aims for North American growth

April 18, 2006 Japanese tech giant Fujitsu hopes to more than double its North American revenue in the next four years. TAGS: Fujitsu, subsidiary, high-performance computing, storage system, mobile computing, Intel Itanium, AMD Opteron, high-performance, acquisition, Japan, AMD, server, U.S., Intel

Intel's chips taking on new work

April 17, 2007 Chipmaker wants to get PC tech into places it currently doesn't dominate: consumer electronics and telecommunications equipment. TAGS: Pat Gelsinger, consumer electronics, Intel x86, telecommunications, Intel, Beijing, Intel XScale, I/O, high-performance, GPU, electronics, project, AMD, work, server, PC

A peek at faster Power6, Cell chips

December 29, 2006 At a chip show, IBM to tout 5GHz-topping Power6 and next-gen 6GHz Cell. Intel to detail a 4GHz, 80-core prototype. TAGS: transistor, IBM Corp., clock speed, manufacturing, Intel, high-performance, conference, Sony Corp., Toshiba, AMD, server

IBM's blade agenda: Cell chip, InfiniBand

February 3, 2006 Big Blue plans to demo the Cell blade, which is expected to to be used in high-performance technical computing. TAGS: IBM eServer BladeCenter, blade, blade server, InfiniBand, backplane, IBM Corp., IBM PowerPC, computing, chassis, Intel Xeon, high-performance, server, engine, networking, AMD, Toshiba

IBM to build Opteron-Cell hybrid supercomputer

September 5, 2006 AMD chips in Los Alamos lab's Roadrunner system to be augmented with the PlayStation's processing brains. TAGS: supercomputer, supercomputing, AMD Opteron, IBM eServer BladeCenter, IBM Corp., high-performance computing, blade, Sony Playstation, high-performance, U.S., AMD, Sony Corp., server

Sun sells second low-end 'Niagara' server

April 12, 2006 Company begins selling lower-end UltraSparc T1-based servers and completes design of T2 successor. TAGS: Sun UltraSPARC, T2, T1, Sun Fire, Sun Microsystems Inc., multiprocessor, high-performance computing, Sun Sparc, server, high-performance, design, AMD, Intel, hard drive
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