AMD is focussing on portable devices with its latest lines of processors announced this week. The K6-3 and K6-2 processor families will be enhanced to speeds of up to 500MHz and the chip company's first customer is Hewlett-Packard who has already...
On the server side, AMD has been demonstrating various flavours of Linux as well as Windows for several months, and said that all major distributions of Linux would be finalised by the Opteron's launch.
A more competitive flash memory business will help AMD, as it will Opteron. AMD is aiming the Opteron at multiprocessor servers, an area where rival Intel dominates. The announcement of our upcoming AMD Opteron family is perhaps the most important...
With both Opteron and Itanium the software must be rebuilt if it is to take advantage of the 64-bit features, such as the ability to address large amounts of memory. In addition, Intel's new strategy could undermine one of the key advantages of the...
IBM had to release its Itanium product soon, given the plans it announced last week to sell some servers using AMD's Opteron processor, Kastner said. It's the first major system from IBM to support Intel's strategy of selling 64-bit Itanium...
AMD this week announced its new "Rev F" line of dual-core Opteron processors, which in 2007 will be supplanted by quad-core models that plug into the same "Socket F". Tulsa uses 1.3 billion transistors - nearly as many as the 1.6 billion in Intel's...
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