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- Are the new Apple iMacs a better deal than Dell and HP can offer?
- Are the new Apple iMacs a better deal than Dell and HP can offer?Maybe just maybe you're biased against Macs?The difference between the 2.66 GHz dual core and and the 2.33GHz quad core in benchmarks is small but the price difference is big, plus that Windows uses more cores than...
- Tags: Desktops, Processors, Operating systems, Apple Inc., new Apple iMac, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Macintosh, Hewlett-Packard Co., quad-core, Apple iMac, dual-core
- Discussion threads 2009-03-04
- Intel moving to six-cores this year; What will you do with them?
- Intel outlined plans to produce six-core chips in the fourth quarter. The move is that latest salvo in a game to out-core AMD on everything. AMD finally gets its quad-core chip out the door and Intel moves to six. The future looks like this: Four cores, six cores, eight cores,...
- Tags: Performance, Intel Itanium, Core, Intel Corp., Chip, Dunnington, Nehalem, Performance Management, Processors, Semiconductors, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Virtual Machine Benchmarks
- A press release crossed my desk on September 6, 2007 from Virtual Iron concerning some very strong benchmark results. Here's a segment of their release.Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com), a provider of enterprise-class server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management software, today announced its support for the latest Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor...
- Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, Processors, virtual machine, Dan Kusnetzky, Virtual Iron, Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7300, virtualization performance, virtualization, quad-core
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Intel Tigerton and AMD Barcelona price list
- Intel has launched the Xeon 7300 platform codenamed "Caneland" and the Core micro-architecture Xeon MP Processor codenamed "Tigerton". Since AMD is set to launch "Barcelona" quad-core Opterons next week and DailyTech leaked the Barcelona price list, we can now compare the prices for the new MP (multi-processor platform) CPUs. ...
- Tags: Performance, Quad-core, Barcelona, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Intel launches Caneland MP platform and Tigerton CPUs
- Intel has announced the launch of the "Caneland" 7300 series MP (multi-processor) 4-socket chipset and the Tigerton XEON MP 65nm CPU. The clock speeds for the new chip are 1.6, 1.86, 2.40, and 2.93 gigahertz and they are based on Intel's Core Micro-architecture which launched last summer with the Core 2 Duo desktop and Xeon 5100 series dual processor server platform. The 50...
- Tags: Chipset, Server, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., IBM Corp., X4 DDR2, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Will AMD Barcelona kill off high-margin AMD CPUs?
- Will AMD Barcelona kill off high-margin AMD CPUs?Holy Cow!It's outta the ballpark.It wasa stream of conciousness--conversational in tone.Ouddda the ball park. Good.Nothing I can pick at though so I am moving on. ;)Hopefully AMD can get back in the game.The competition between AMD and Intel has been great for us...
- Tags: Performance management, Processors, Servers, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Intel Xeon, performance, SPECint_rate, CPU
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- Sun packs big bang in tiny 2U Intel 7300 16-core server
- One of the servers previewed at Intel's Caneland/Tigerton launch yesterday was Sun's full-blown 4-socket 16-core Intel Xeon MP 7300 series server. What was unique about this server is the fact that it was the only 2U server shown yesterday with all the amenities you'd expect from...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Sun Microsystems Inc., SAN, Server, Virtual Machine, Intel Corp., George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Sun packs big bang in tiny 2U Intel 7300 16-core server
- Sun packs big bang in tiny 2U Intel 7300 16-core serverIsn't that where Intel's solution falls down?16 cores all competing for the same FSB?AMD's press release pointed out that the memory intensive nature of VM's would prove the downfall of Intel's approach of adding more and more cores onto a...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, Sun UltraSPARC T2, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel Corp., SPECint_rate2006, FSB, T2, tiny 2U Intel 7300, server
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Intel Tigerton and AMD Barcelona price list
- Intel Tigerton and AMD Barcelona price listwhat about 2XXX BarcelonaWhy dont you show the entire list ?,WOW AMD by all estimates will dominate, I cant believe you said that! Make sure the PPW is with power saving ONAMD silences quad-core criticshttp://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2195086/amd-silences-barcelona-criticsAMD's "Estimated Benchmark Scorestm" are [i]EVIL![/i] X-(.AMD's clearly labeled "Estimated...
- Tags: Performance management, IBM Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., performance, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Counting the roots of growth: BSD vs Linux vs Solaris
- Counting the roots of growth: BSD vs Linux vs SolarisSecretive about the disaster.Quoting the quote:"Sun has been tight-lipped about what the conversion rate for Solaris shipments to Solaris paid support contracts is, but if the number was high, you can bet Sun would say something. That said, with nearly 9...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Linux, BSD, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- Intel's plan for Penryn
- Intel wants everyone to know that Penryn, its forthcoming family of 45nm processors, is more than just a shrink or adaptation of its Core Microarchitecture. Today the company unveiled some additional the details behind the new processor family, which will populate desktops, notebooks and servers during 2008. While Penryn is...
- Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, Penryn, Intel Corp., processor, quad-core, chip, notebook
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Is AMD's business model 'fundamentally broken'?
- Is AMD's business model 'fundamentally broken'?Betting the Farm on Barcelona?I blog about Oracle-related topics and am a keen Opteron fan, but I submit the following link to my Oracle/Barcelona related blog entries:http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/t/oracle-on-opteron-numa-etc/Answering a rhetorical question:"Does market share at the expense of profits really make sense?"Yes. Ask the Japanese car...
- Tags: Network technology, Semiconductors, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-24
- Sun servers to get Intel inside
- Sun Microsystems has once again joined forces with Intel. After a hiatus of a little over two years, the computer maker will begin offering Intel-based servers and workstations again, starting in the first half of this year, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz said during a press conference today. Sun has pledged...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Intel Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- xpesp2_via_machineinf_v290a_v50.zip 2006-10-12 (Windows)
- Click on the following links for the driver package readme info:.../XPesp2_VIA_MachineINF_V290A_V50/Readme.txt This package supports the following driver models:VIA K8 CPU to AGP Controller VIA Standard Host Bridge VIA I/O APIC Interrupt Controller VIA Security Device VIA PCI to PCI Bridge Controller VIA Standard PCI to ISA Bridge VIA1 Standard PCI...
- Tags: Processor, I/O, ISA, AGP, Microsoft Windows, CPU, Intel Corp., EISA, Play, RCC, PCI, Storage, Hardware
- Software downloads 2006-10-12
- Dempsey, Woodcrest, and the G5 Mac
- Last week I reported on what I thought was a simple comparison between Apple's high end desktop competitive position two years ago and its position now. Unfortunately a lot of readers thought was I doing something else - either comparing system performance and ignorantly equating Intel's latest "Woodcrest" CPU line...
- Tags: HyperThreading
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
- Dell on AMD through the years
- Dell on AMD through the yearsDELL and AMDI cannot believe DELLS Resistance to AMD through the years. My first AMD 200 MHZ Processor ran circles around my pentium 200 with never a problem. I don't think they even did any testing at all. Intel was padding someones...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Dell Technical Support, Dell Computer Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-08-18
- AMD dominates 4 and 8 socket at Linux World
- AMD dominates 4 and 8 socket at Linux WorldIntel's fake quadcore is unsuitable for serverWoodcrest is a chip that has no place in the market.For massive clustered environment, people needs floating point performance and AMD's Opteron leads by 38% over Woodcrest in SpecFp_rate2000 (see SUN's press release).For transactional performance, you...
- Tags: Processors, Core 2, Linux, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., quad-core, Woodcrest
- Discussion threads 2006-08-17
- AMD dominates 4 and 8 socket at Linux World
- Quad-core computing can cut server hardware costs and software licensing in half At Linux World 2006 in San Francisco, AMD flexed its muscle in the four and eight socket server market in the IBM and HP booths in addition to its own booth. Both HP and IBM were showing...
- Tags: quad-core, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., socket configuration
- Blog posts 2006-08-17
- Things aren't all that rosy at Intel
- Things aren't all that rosy at IntelWhat if they held a price war... and nobody came?Price saber-rattling is more like it. Intel has to flush its bloated stock of NetBurst chips, and if that happens to hurt AMD I'm sure Paul won't lose any sleep.On the other hand, AMD...
- Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, Servers, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., socket system
- Discussion threads 2006-07-20
- Intel to tout new dual-core Xeon at IDF
- Intel to tout new dual-core Xeon at IDFEnd of the road for AMDIt was a great couple of years for AMD. Competing with Intel's old Netburst architecture gave them a much needed kicker. Well, like all good things, it must now come to and end - the empire strikes back.That...
- Tags: Processors, Investment, dual-core, HyperTransport, Bensley FSB, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-01
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