Meanwhile, vacant space on the memory controller inside AMD's Hammer chip indicates the chip could be transformed into a dual-core processor, said Kevin Krewell, an analyst at The Microprocessor Report, a respected industry newsletter.
The announcement of our upcoming AMD Opteron family is perhaps the most important single announcement in the history of our company. Indeed, AMD is looking forward to the second half of 2003, when it will begin shipping the Opteron in volumes large...
Opteron, the server equivalent of the Athlon 64, came out in April. Without Athlon, AMD would be out of the business," said Kevin Krewell, senior editor of the Microprocessor Report. The 3200+ features a 400MHz bus, faster than the 333MHz and...
Can AMD increase the clock frequency on the 1/4MB (256KB) part high enough above the 1MB part to convince customers that the parts really, really do perform the same? wrote Kevin Krewell, senior editor of the Microprocessor Report.
This year, rival AMD has also begun to more actively challenge Intel in the server market with Opteron. Typically, high-performance computing clusters want chips with high clock speeds, measured by gigahertz, but don't necessarily need massive...
Speaking at the launch of AMD's new Opteron quad-core server processor in Barcelona - which is touted by the chip-maker as very virtualisation-friendly by enabling more virtual machines to be run per server - Ingle said: "This is all about data.
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