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by Rafael Hernandez on July 28, 2004 · 0 comments

Computerworld writes of delays to Microsoft’s planned 64-bit versions of its operating systems. Windows XP 64-bit Edition and Windows Server 2003 64-bit have both been delayed until next year which could cause a setback in the adoption rate of AMD…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 28, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has an early look at the new, budget line of CPUs from AMD called Sempron. They have a Socket A and Socket 754 version on the testbed today and the results are rather speedy for what’s supposed to be…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 28, 2004 · 0 comments

PC Magazine has the details on AMD’s newest (old) processor line named Sempron. Odds are the chips are based on already existing designs, meaning, a rebadged Athlon XP for Socket A boards and an Athlon 64 with all of the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 27, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has some coverage of AMD’s latest round of price changes for its CPU lines. Normally there would be nothing but price cuts across the board for their current processors, now the Athlon 64 had a nice drop in price…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 23, 2004 · 0 comments

InfoWorld has the specifics on a new line of servers that Sun Microsystems will be launching next week which feature AMD Opteron processors. Sun is going to be making full use of the chip’s features with products ranging from dual-processor…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 19, 2004 · 0 comments

InfoWorld has the details on a pair of new mobile processors AMD has just announced. The Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ supports both 32bit and 64bit operations and is currently the company’s top-end mobile chip while the new Athlon XP-M 2200+…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 16, 2004 · 0 comments

AMD has plans to launch a dual-core variant of its Athlon 64 next year. The dual-core CPU idea is not a new concept, a few other chip makers have created and manufactured them in the past but this will be…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 16, 2004 · 0 comments

HardwareZone goes into exhaustive detail on how to build your very own AMD Socket 939 processor based system. The guide is basically only platform specific up to step 2.5, the rest of the guide could be applied to just about…

Read more How To: Put Together a Socket-939 System

by Rafael Hernandez on July 12, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has access to the recently launched Intel Xeon 3.4GHz which just so happens to sport a 64-bit core under the hood. In good review fashion they decided to pit the new comer against the “matured” AMD Opteron platform with…

Read more Nacona and Opteron Duke it Out

by Rafael Hernandez on July 12, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech tested out the performance of three flavors of both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems on an AMD Athlon 64 processor against a large number of applications. Definite room for improvement in the OS’ and software but it shows some…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 7, 2004 · 0 comments

PC World writes of a slight oversight Microsoft may have had with its beta 64-bit version of Windows XP. The main problem is that it was limited to installing only on AMD 64-bit CPUs to begin with which is a…

Read more 64-bit Xeon Incompatible with XP64, for now