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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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