AMD released six-core Opteron HE processors today that promise to up the performance per watt ante. Currently shipping in 2-,4- and 8-processor HP ProLiant servers, the new Istanbul chips boast an nice percent performance per watt boost over their…
AMD Opteron 2435 – Six Cores Made for Virtualization
Reviewers are starting to get their mitts on AMD’s six-core “Istanbul” server chip and the news looks good from a virtualization standpoint. Anandtech found that while slower than some Intel Xeons, the platform’s affinity to virtualization, power savings and cost…
Intel Nehalem vs. AMD Shanghai… Fight!
DailyTech took a look at the marketing war of words between Intel and AMD in the server chip realm, specifically when it comes to the former’s Nehalem Xeon and the latter’s Shanghai Opteron. We all love a good fight, but…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, April 29
Swine flu threat raises telework questions – Network World Research firm Gartner said the recent outbreaks of swine flu highlight the need for companies to have in place pandemic plans that address workforce absenteeism rates of 40% or higher. The…
AMD Istanbul: 6-Core Roadmap to Greener Datacenters
Today’s new quad-core Opteron EE is just the start… It’s Opteron’s sixth birthday, and the chip wars just got interesting again. Sure, the company just launched a power-sipping, quad-core Shanghai chip (more on that later) but the latest salvo was…
IBM Targets Low-Power, 28nm Chips
Watch out Intel… IBM, which has enjoyed a cozy relationship with AMD, is looking well past 32nm and is setting its sights on 28 nanometers (nm). Expect chips to get smaller, faster and you guessed it… more energy efficient. Preliminary…
