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17.59 PFLOPS: AMD Opteron, Nvidia Tesla K20X Power World's Fastest SuperComputer
HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE NEWS
Today the Top500.org organization posted the latest update to its traditional list of five hundred world's fastest computers and the list of most efficient servers. AMD/NVIDIA-powered "Titan" tops both lists.
On 11/12/2012 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
SeaMicro to Launch AMD Opteron-powered Microservers in November 2012
CLOUD COMPUTING, ENTERPRISE NEWS
SeaMicro is making waves in the ultra-dense server world. After spending years being heavily promoted by Intel, AMD moved in and acquired the company. Just a few weeks later, SeaMicro showed Opterons.
On 6/26/2012 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

AMD Acquires SeaMicro, Starts Selling Intel Microprocessors
CLOUD COMPUTING, ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS NEWS
AMD announced that the company signed a definite agreement to acquire SeaMicro. This is a kick in the nuts to Intel's cloud strategy and marks AMD's entrance into the server solution business.
On 2/29/2012 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
Microsoft Releases AMD Bulldozer Patch by Mistake: Incomplete Update
HARDWARE, SOFTWARE NEWS
On the news of Microsoft pulling the AMD Bulldozer kernel patch, we contacted AMD and Microsoft to get to the bottom of this. The answer was quite surprising.
On 12/16/2011 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

AMD Ships First Bulldozers: 16-Core Opteron "Interlagos" Processor
HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE NEWS
AMD just released a press release stating that the first revenue shipments of the 16-core "Interlagos" are underway. As stated in their second quarter earnings call, AMD began production of the chips in August
On 9/7/2011 by Marcus Pollice... Comments (0) Read more
AMD Bulldozer Yields Are Fine, Fusion Llano APUs Are Not: GPU is The Issue
GRAPHICS, HARDWARE NEWS
Even before the start of GlobalFoundries Technolgoy Conference 2011, which is being held here, in Santa Clara Convention Center, we learned what’s been bugging AMD of late…
On 8/30/2011 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

Gateway Leaks Out AMD Bulldozer Server CPUs: 3GHz Top speed?
HARDWARE, CLOUD COMPUTING, ENTERPRISE NEWS
Gateway's server configuration page leaked out significant amount of details for the upcoming Opteron 6200 series processors, i.e. Bulldozer-powered Interlagos and Valencia cores.
On 7/25/2011 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
AMD Lowers Performance Projections for Bulldozer Opteron
HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE NEWS
AMD just lowered the performance guidance for their 16-core Opteron from 50% to 35%. Considering that the processor integrates 33% more integer compute resources, this figure looks somewhat disappointing.
On 7/22/2011 by Marcus Pollice... Comments (0) Read more

AMD Reports Improved Profitability in 2Q 2011
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
AMD [NASDAQ: AMD] today reported their earnings for the 2Q 2011 showing that the company’s APU strategy is indeed paying off.
On 7/21/2011 by Anshel Sag... Comments (0) Read more
AMD Answers 20 Questions on Bulldozer
HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE NEWS
AMD's Jonathan Fruehe posted the fourth and final iteration on the AMD's Q&A session which featured numerous readers from which the company chose 20 questions and answered them.
On 10/5/2010 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

CONFIRMED: AMD to use SSE5 "sooner than later"
HARDWARE NEWS
AMD Financial Analyst Day 2009 We spoke with Chekib Akrout, Corporate VP at AMD to clarify one technology that wasn’t mentioned on any of the slides during today’s Financial Analyst Day.
On 11/11/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
AMD's 8-Core Valencia and 16-core Interlagos are based on Bulldozer
HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS NEWS

AMD recently had a conference call detailing its near- and long-term roadmaps. The company disclosed the path it is taking with the new Bulldozer and Bobcat cores.

On 6/16/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

AMD Opteron, Phenom codenames explained
HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS

We've received numerous AMD Opteron articles in our inbox. Sadly, the authors of several articles clearly had no idea about codenames and claimed that "Magny-Cours" is an abbreviation for Many Cores. Oh my...

On 5/1/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
AMD Socket G34 for Opteron CPU revealed
HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE NEWS

Good bye symmetry: new Magny Cours and Interlagos CPUs feature the 288-bit quad-channel memory controller and an integrated PCI Express 2.0 controller. A lot of dots to connect on the motherboard as G34 is an LGA package.

On 4/27/2009 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

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