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- Strong chip sales boost AMD results
- Strong chip sales boost AMD resultsNot to sound like a fan-boy butAMD's dual-core Opteron 280's do rock.We've upgraded a number of boxes out our work with them and the speed-up is remarkable. (Almost linear.)Good to see AMD's market share is upfor the server market.The performance of the AMD dual...
- Tags: Processors, Network technology, NetBurst Architecture, HyperTransport, sales, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., dual-core, chip
- Discussion threads 2006-01-18
- Intel's dual-core Xeon makes Dell debut
- Intel's dual-core Xeon makes Dell debutSOS, DD !ANNOUNCE the availability of a product YOU DO NOT HAVE now, and pretend like it may be available in a few months.SOS, DD.Why does ANYONE bother to print these BOGUS PRESS RELEASES ???? Pretty IRRESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR by the media, I would suggest...AMD's 4P...
- Tags: Servers, Processors, OPEN SOURCE, NetBurst Architecture, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Exchange Server, Sun Microsystems Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Intel Corp., dual-core, server
- Discussion threads 2005-09-26
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- Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.3 billion transistors, very cool!
- Nehalem-EX - 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.3 billion transistors, very cool!Um, that should be good enough I guessntIntel needs to spec a backplaneIt would be nice if Intel would speck out an 8x backplane that processor modules could plug into. That way multiple manufactures could build compatible modules and backplanes.With...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, Servers, Network technology, Nehalem-EX, transistor, processor, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-27
- Most influential tech of 2007
- Most influential tech of 2007Ironic to pick VistaA product that actually lowered MSFT's influence in the tech world. I guess if you look at it through the fat end of the telescope it was influential in a negative way. Wii wins hands down in my book, then Ubuntu...
- Tags: Processors, Games, IBM Corp., quad-core, Nintendo Wii, processor, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2007-12-27
- Google's warehouse-size power problem
- Power to the internet!Beginning 5 years ago, Google took the lead in making a power consumption an issue for IT vendors. No one cared that much before that because no one else was building 100,000+ server data centers using free software and cheap PC hardware. Google wasn't the only...
- Tags: Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Motorola falls to 3rd in world market share, but why is Nokia still so dominant?
- Motorola falls to 3rd in world market share, but why is Nokia still so dominant?I used to be a Motorola guyMy current $30 Nokia is really, really, really well done though. In many ways, it is far more usable and feature rich than the iPhone and 20 times less expensive!Their...
- Tags: Motorola Inc., world market share, Nokia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-20
- RAM to avoid: hot, expensive and slow
- RAM to avoid: hot, expensive and slowJEDECFB-DIMM was proposed by Intel back in 2003 (March, to be specific) to the JC-42 memory committee. The reason for it, as they explained in their slideware, was that server performance had more to do with total amount of memory than with either...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Memory, Servers, RAM, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., FB-DIMM
- Discussion threads 2007-05-21
- RAM to avoid: hot, expensive and slow
- Has Intel ever met a technology they couldn't make hotter, costlier and slower? The latest victim: DRAM. Here's what you need to know.Intel is pushing something called Fully Buffered DIMMs (FB-DIMM). You see them on some servers and high-end PCs like the Dell 690 and the Apple Mac Pro that...
- Tags: RAM
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- AMD's Barcelona summer
- AMD's Barcelona summerAMD shipping FUD in high volumePowerPoint slides are shipping in high volume. The latest Powerpoint stepping shows Barcelona nearly 60% faster than anything from Intel - ever! Tier 1 customers like Enquirer.Net are measuring remarkable benchmark results as follows:BS2007 - 1210Loopdaloop - 1320Hectormark - 10,000MultiplyThat - 1512Uselessmark...
- Tags: Processors, POWERPOINT Slide, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., processor
- Discussion threads 2007-05-08
- Intel's plan for Penryn
- Intel's plan for PenrynUseless for apps that don't use SSESSE is great for desktop apps like games and video processing, but is useless for most commercial server apps.Penryn will have a much bigger cache, which will help some business apps.For commercial workloads, Penryn looks like Intel applied similar concepts to...
- Tags: Servers, Penryn, SSE, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-29
- Who is worth more, you or AMD?
- Who is worth more, you or AMD?This, ladies and Gentlemen...Is competition in the computer world.Intel drug its feet and laid dormant at the top for quite some time. Along comes AMD, literally following in their shadows, and tears by Intel the likes of which they've never seen.David made Goliath mad.Now...
- Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-23
- Strike 3 for AMD hypocrisy on benchmarking
- Strike 3 for AMD hypocrisy on benchmarkingAMD is strugglingThis is a hot topic for sure but AMD takes the cake.What we have seen AMD do in the last year is this dismiss benchmarks altogether as a relevant because they are losing them all! Now, they won one that serves...
- Tags: Processors, benchmarking, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
- Intel's Nehalem processor: Biggest leap since the Pentium Pro
- Intel's Nehalem processor: Biggest leap since the Pentium ProMan, Intel just keeps dumping on AMDGlad I don't have any AMD stock...Yet another vaporware 'release'...Intel is yet again trying to freeze the market in anticipation of losing more market share in the 4 socket market. Octal core? They keep...
- Tags: Processors, Intel Pentium, Intel Core Duo, Intel Corp., memory controller, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., integrated memory controller, IMC, Intel Nehalem, processor, Intel Pentium Pro
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
- Pentium 4, we hardly knew ye
- Intel’s Pentium 4 is on borrowed time. The chipmaker, which was first unveiled the Pentium 4 at Comdex in 2000, is preparing a retirement party for the processor.Intel’s Product Change Notification service has, for example, has told its customers they must place their final orders for Pentium 4 600 chips...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Intel Pentium
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- AMD versus Intel: CPU wars roadmap
- Intel announced the next revolution in Microprocessor fabrication by replacing Silicon Dioxide gates with High-K dielectric metal gates. Microprocessor industry analyst David Kanter who contributed a lot of the information in this piece had this in-depth analysis on what this means for Intel and AMD. I spoke with...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD, Desktop, Hardware, Intel Corp., News, Processors, Servers
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- Apple results beat the Street
- Apple results beat the StreetApple is finished...The Zune player will kill the iPod once and for all. The release of Vista will relegate OS X to the scrap heap of history. My kid's friends all bought Apple Macbooks for college this year. When I heard about I called all of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Processors, Digital music, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2006-10-18
- Who has the upper hand on Energy Efficiency? AMD or Intel?
- Who has the upper hand on Energy Efficiency? AMD or Intel?My simple question for the Dr.How was Intel's TDP determined. We know AMD's TDP is the theoretical maximum, while Intel's is some mysterious number that is below the max.What is it?Blame M$ for part of that problem..For not properly...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft PowerPoint, Sharikou, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-16
- Who has the upper hand on Energy Efficiency? AMD or Intel?
- AMD has dominated the Energy Efficiency debate on the desktop and server platforms for the last 2 years until Intel opened up a significant lead with its Core 2 desktop and server products. The only thing in dispute is the size of Intels performance and energy...
- Tags: Intel Corp., desktop
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- Intel unleashes Quad Core at IDF Fall 2006
- Intel unleashes Quad Core at IDF Fall 2006"unleashes"?!?Fan boi writes again!!!George, it's two dual cores slapped onto the same carrier not the same silicon.This introduces further cache coherency and memory bandwidth problems on top of Intel's strained memory architecture.Slap two of those quad-core chips into a server and see how...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, AMD Opteron, Fan Boi, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., chip, quad-core
- Discussion threads 2006-09-27
- Intel unleashes Quad Core at IDF Fall 2006
- At the fall 2006 IDF (Intel Developer's Conference), Intel widened its lead in the Server and Desktop market by trotting out four quad core server processors and a 2.66 GHz quad core "Extreme Edition" desktop processor. But no one told these real-world applications that the Intel quad core chips...
- Tags: quad-core
- Blog posts 2006-09-27
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