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IBM launches 16-core processor server
News IBM has announced a version of its System i business server range that uses the company's Power6 processor, which the tech giant claims is the fastest chip it has ever built. Announced this week, the System i 570 uses the 4.7GHz Power6, launched in...
[July 26, 2007, 16:42]
IBM throws weight behind Intel's 64-bit strategy
News IBM has begun selling its first major Itanium server, the four-processor x450, the company plans to announce on Wednesday. The two-phase introduction parallels how IBM debuted the EXA on Xeon servers, first with the four-processor x360, then with...
[April 30, 2003, 7:37]
IBM releases 16-chip Intel servers
News IBM has begun shipping its 16-processor x440 server, its highest-end mainstream machine using Intel chips, the company plans to announce on Wednesday. The system consists of two 7-inch-tall, eight-processor, rack-mounted systems connected with high...
[December 18, 2002, 8:25]
IBM plans 2003 muscle servers
News By late December, a 16-processor version will be generally available, Whitney said. The company is poised to release its first "blade" servers and 16-processor Intel-based systems in coming weeks. Whitney said a 32-processor version is slated for...
[November 28, 2002, 7:40]
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[December 31, 1995, 6:00]
HP fills gap in Itanium line
News CitiStreet switched to the HP Unix line in 2001 from IBM mainframes, has upgraded them through several PA-RISC processor generations, and now will perform the "brain transplant" move to Itanium, chief information officer Barry Strasnick said.
[November 3, 2003, 10:25]
IBM supercomputer looms large
News At the less-expensive end of the spectrum, a single four-processor machine with 4GB of memory and 218GB of hard drive capacity costs about $70,000, he said. Each p655 Unix server is a four- or eight-processor module measuring seven inches high, 12...
[November 18, 2002, 8:54]
IBM server: Buy now, upgrade later
News The new version allows businesses to select two- or four-processor configurations and then upgrade later to eight or 16 processors. Although a number of companies, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, offer four-, eight- and 16...
[August 22, 2002, 15:21]
HP cuts prices on midrange Unix servers
News The price cuts, which HP intends to announce on Thursday, apply to the eight-processor rp4705 and rp7410 systems and to the 16-processor rp8400, said Dimitris Dovas, an HP manager for midrange servers.
[April 3, 2003, 7:37]
IBM prepares second phase of Power5
News Later, IBM will sell a top-end 64-processor system, but that model isn't expected this quarter. For example, the 16-processor models will be called the i5 570 or the p5 570, depending on whether they're sold with an i5/OS or AIX focus.
[July 5, 2004, 9:20]
IBM challenges Sun and HP with Power6
News IBM today launched its Power6 processor, which the company said represented a new challenge to Sun and HP and a potential coup de grâce to Intel's Itanium processor. The new processor is available from Monday in two-, four-, eight- and 16-core...
[May 21, 2007, 17:41]
Big Blue to let Squadron fly at Sun and HP
News A p5-590 with 16 1.65GHz processor cores and 32GB of memory costs $745,000, compared with $1.36m for a Power4-based p690 with 16 1.9GHz processor cores, Freund said. The new servers are the biggest iron in IBM's "Squadron" family of servers using...
[October 15, 2004, 9:20]
IBM goes on the Power5 offensive
News The higher-end Unix models are due by the end of the year, including a 64-processor model, said Ravi Arimilli, chief technology officer of eServer microprocessors and systems development and an IBM fellow.
[July 13, 2004, 9:05]
IBM goes after Sun with new low-end systems
News Launching four new servers, three of them based on the new Power5+ processor, as well as a 16-way system for the high-end, IBM claimed leadership in power and performance in the low-end Unix systems market.
[October 4, 2005, 5:01]
HP's laptop better to see with
News The Compaq Presario 3005US will sport a 16-inch screen, a 2GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512MB of memory, a 40GB hard drive and a combination CD-Rewritable/DVD-ROM drive. Like other large-sized consumer notebooks, the new 8.1-pound Presario uses a...
[November 18, 2002, 7:57]
AMD claws back market share
News AMD, meanwhile, saw its processor share rise 1.6 points from 16.2 to 17.8 percent. A gain of nearly two points may not sound like much, but in the glacial battle between these two PC processor vendors, it's a pretty big move.
[October 27, 2005, 9:15]
IBM touts second Itanium
News The machine is a significant IBM endorsement of Intel's Itanium processor family, which is a 64-bit line intended for high-end computers. For example, on the same day it launched its first Itanium server, it trumpeted the speed of servers that use...
[November 11, 2003, 7:35]
Unisys servers shape up for Itanium 2
News Dell is working with Intel on a new version of the E8870 chipset for eight-processor Xeon machines. For the guts of the new lower-end server line, Unisys adapted technology from Intel beyond just the processor, Fevertson said.
[July 18, 2002, 8:43]
64-bit Itanium to land this month
News IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other large computer manufacturers will soon unveil 2, 4, and even 16-processor computers containing the 64-bit Itanium chip for the first time. HP will come out with two servers, a 4-processor server and a 16-way box...
[May 11, 2001, 13:59]
Start-up brews hardware boost for Java
News The company has developed a custom processor called Vega that provides a hardware foundation for Java programs that's faster than the application server software from companies such as BEA, IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems that's most widely used...
[September 28, 2004, 9:25]
