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...
The new AMD chips will initially land in the consumer and small business markets, but the Sunnyvale, California-based company has said it will continue to try to push its laptop chips into the corporate market in 2003.
Within the group, the ProLiant server line, based on Intel's Xeon and AMD's Opteron, was strong, with revenue growth of 15 per cent, HP said. ProLiant servers were subject to fierce price pressure, though, and average selling prices decreased, HP...
And HP's ProLiant servers, which use processors from Intel and AMD, are often sold by resellers to smaller HP customers. The companies will cooperate to unify their relationships with the resellers who reach smaller customers, to jointly develop...
Microsoft's announcement is welcome news, particularly for chipmaker AMD, which has had 64-bit server chips on the market for two years and 64-bit desktop processors for 18 months. The software maker issued a test version of 64-bit Windows in the...
Sun is now emulating two factors in Linux's success by making Solaris open source software and bringing it to computers using x86 processors such as Intel's Xeon and AMD's Opteron. Also in his blog, Schwartz said HP is backing Solaris 10 for use on...