NEC demonstrated the 32-processor server Monday at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, but using a system powered by the next-generation Madison processors Intel plans to release in 2003. NEC dented that Unix dominance with its $4.6m TX7/i9510...
Sun cancelled development of its high-end UltraSparc V processor earlier this year, a move that wasn't related to the Fujitsu deal, said Marc Tremblay, Sun fellow and chief architect of the company's processors and network products.
The same IBM Power machine now can run Linux, IBM's AIX version of Unix and the iSeries operating system, i5/OS. IBM has updated its iSeries - long called AS/400 and another decades-old family - with its new Power5 processor.
Faced with steadily improving x86 processors such as its Xeon and AMD's Opteron, Intel has redefined Itanium as a chip chiefly for high-end servers. The PC maker said it prefers to focus on systems using Intel's Xeon processor.
During his keynote speech at the Worldwide Developer Conference in June 2005, Steve Jobs announced that the Macintosh computer would stop running on PowerPC chips and start using Intel microprocessors.
Quad-core means a chip has four separate microprocessors. The chip has been engineered so under-utilised sections of the core can be powered down to optimise power efficiency for the workload that's being run on the server at that time, explained...