The inevitable future for the computer processor is the addition of more and more cores to improve performance for those tasks that are highly parallelizable or just enjoy warming up a datacenter as quickly as possible. AMD’s Opteron 6174 “Magny-Cours” processor is a parallelized application’s dream with 12 cores to play with and some tweaks […]
Read more AMD Opteron 6174 Processor packs 12 cores of crunching power
Facebook, everyone’s favorite social network, have a bit of an issue with Intel and AMD. They aren’t seeing quite the performance benefits that the two companies tout for their products when they use the new platforms in their massive server…
Read more AMD Begs to Differ With Facebook, Thinks Chips Perform Well
Processor launches are a funny thing. There’s a whole lot of hoopla over the high end chips with all manner of benchmarks and quotes on how their latest product will make things run faster, cooler, and improve your Crysis…
Read more AMD's "Suzuka" Opterons Demand Attention
