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Leaked Slides Confirm 32 Core AMD Zen Opteron CPUs
For those are hoping for “MOAR COARS”, it looks like AMD will be delivering later this year. First alluded to in a Linux patch last week, AMD’s upcoming Zen Opteron CPUs are set to have up to 32 psychical cores. A leaked slide from CERN reveals that patch was right…
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AMD Finally Launches Datacenter Opteron ARM Chips
Nearly 4 years after AMD first revealed their ARM plans, their first ARM-based Opteron chips are finally ready. Shipping today, the octa-core Opteron A1100 server SoC and platform is already able for purchase from several partners and is available in 3 SKUs. Despite such a late launch, the A1100 may yet…
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AMD Zen Rumours Point to Earlier Than Expected Release
Before anyone gets too excited about this news, so far this is only a rumour that originates from one source, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t dream, hope and get a little bit excited. A german tech publication got wind from a Motherboard manufacturer that we could see new…
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Intel Preparing “Ivytown” 15 Core Xeon E7 Processors, Announcement Next Week
15 cores may sound like a strange number of cores but apparently Intel is working on a 15 core Xeon chip codenamed “Ivytown”. Fudzilla reports that Intel’s Ivytown 15 core CPU will be part of their Xeon E7 processor line-up and it will be announced next week. The highest end…
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AMD Unveils Server Roadmap: Steamroller Coming Early 2014, ARM Late 2014
AMD has just revealed to us today their updated 2013 to 204 server roadmap. AMD’s server roadmap is often an indication of the consumer CPU market in that new architectures tend to hit the server platforms about 3-6 months before the consumer platforms. That said what is quite interesting about…
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Xeon and Opteron Will Die Out In Supercomputers Says Researchers
According to a report, detailed by Fudzilla, Spanish academics believe that the Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors will one day in the “not-so-distant-future” die out and be replaced by supercomputers that use smartphone processors. Their report entitled “Are mobile processors ready for HPC?” suggests that smartphone microprocessors are both…
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AMD’s Steamroller To Arrive A Year Early
In a recent presentation by AMD’s PR and Marketing department it showed off the technology behinds its new Steamroller core design. The new AMD micro-architecture is on track to be released this year in the form of AMD Opteron server class processors. This is a hugely surprising development as Q3-Q4…
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