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HARDWARE
NEWS
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Just when we were waiting for MSI to make their X79 announcement we got a nice little email from MSI giving us a peek at their newest boards for Intel Socket 2011.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Many moons ago, a controversy sparked over Danish and Taiwanese overclockers selling the Intel Confidential processors i.e. engineering samples on eBay. Hre we go again… with Sandy Bridge-E.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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With the release of the Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition AMD released their fastest clocked processor to date. It is clocked at 3.7GHz, slightly shy of the highest clocks Intel officially reached on the Pentium 4 years ago.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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As AMD continues to finalize the market approach for their next generation Zambezi processors (based on new Bulldozer architecture), it appears that concept images of their new retail boxes leaked onto the Internet.
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HARDWARE, DEEP THROAT
NEWS
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Most manufacturers in any industry out there go and create engineering samples that are distributed to select partners. But what happens if that trust is breached?
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Clearing the stock for AMD Opteron 6100 series based on Magny-Cours core…
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE
NEWS
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Notebooks are all around us, but what if the power provided by the best one isn't good enough? How about a portable dual-socket, dual-GPU, single, dual or triple display beast?
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![AMD [finally] launches own server platform: Meet Fiorano, Kroner](/Thumb.aspx?file=/Data/2009_9_20/AMD-launch-server-platform-Fiorano-Kroner\AMD_Ferrari_Fiorano_215.jpg "AMD [finally] launches own server platform: Meet Fiorano, Kroner")
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HARDWARE, CLOUD COMPUTING, ENTERPRISE
NEWS
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Originally scheduled for June 2009, the Fiorano platform is finally being launched in the dying days of Q3'2009. Fiorano now marks the completion of merger between AMD and ATI.
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HARDWARE, CLOUD COMPUTING, ENTERPRISE
NEWS
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In a bid to capture as much as blade market as possible AMD hard launched the Opteron EE 2400 series. This energy-efficient CPU eats up only 40W under AMD's ACP measurement [PDF download].
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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September is a busy season for Intel: Core i5-700 and i7-800 series launch next week, while 32nm Gulftown, a sexa-core, 12-thread i9-1000 series processor will make an appearance on IDF Fall 2009.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS, RUMORS
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Intel's Core i3 and i5 aren't even out yet, but Chipzilla isn't sleeping: the company recently taped out a successor to existing Nehalem architecture.
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HARDWARE, CLOUD COMPUTING, ENTERPRISE
NEWS
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While both AMD and Intel praised their new chips to heavens' high, reality seems to look different: in a chat with founder of GigaOM, Facebook VP blasted AMD and Intel.
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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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.
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE
NEWS
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AMD used Day Zero of Computex Taipei 2009 to announce its Opteron 2400 series, a sexa-core processor formerly known as Istanbul. But, where's the announced server/workstation platform?
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE
RUMORS
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AMD's sexa-core processor is set to debut a week before the Grand Prix upon which it got its name: Istanbul CPU debuts on May 27th; Turkish GP is set for June 7th.
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HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE
ANALYSIS
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AMD's ace for 2010 comes in the form of 12-core Multi-Chip Module codenamed Magny-Cours, a rather boring racetrack in France. But unlike the racetrack, Magny-Cours architecture is rather interesting...
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HARDWARE
ANALYSIS, RUMORS
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Recent roadmap leak caused quite a discussions here at BSN*. We decided to dig what is exactly coming in 2011 and is there any reason for celebration [AMD fans] or worry [Intel boys]...
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