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Intel Makes New Xeon For Four-processor Servers
News Intel on Tuesday will unveil new Xeon processors for four-processor servers, marking the latest entrant in the increasingly competitive server market. The four-processor server space marks the front in the battle between traditional RISC/Unix...
[March 2, 2004, 8:40]
IBM Carves Out Four-processor Xeon Blades
News Most blade servers today are dual-processor models, although HP sells a single-processor model using Intel's Pentium M mobile processor. IBM is to launch its first four-processor blade server on Wednesday, the Xeon-powered BladeCenter HS40...
[January 6, 2004, 11:55]
HP Puts AMD In Servers
News Hewlett-Packard plans to come out with servers that contain Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, in another significant win for AMD. Opteron is designed to compete more in the one- to four-processor segment, a market currently dominated by...
[January 27, 2004, 8:55]
Fujitsu Readies Eight-way Blade Server
News Fujitsu will begin selling technology next quarter that lets four dual-processor blade servers be linked into a single machine with eight AMD Opteron chips. IBM sells a 32-Xeon machine, the x460, and Sun plans an eight-processor Opteron server this...
[March 14, 2006, 9:00]
New Chip Powers High-end Intel Servers
News Intel has released three new Xeon chips for four- and eight-processor servers in a move to increase the pressure on Sun Microsystems. Jeff Hewitt, an analyst at Gartner, said that, except for IBM's x440, which is experiencing growth, most of the...
[November 4, 2002, 8:16]
Opteron Strikes Up A Quartet
News Typically, two-, four- and eight-processor servers all use different types of chipsets. Two-processor servers based on Opteron, along with a host of chipsets and complimentary software, will be formally unveiled on Tuesday at a news conference in...
[April 22, 2003, 13:07]
Opteron Launches Amidst Benchmark Fanfare
News Server maker RackSaver, for instance, announced three servers, including the four-processor QuatreX-64 that beat all other four-processor servers on two key benchmark tests. Advanced Micro Devices released its touted Opteron processor on Tuesday...
[April 22, 2003, 13:48]
Sun Powers Up Low-end UltraSparc
News Sun Microsystems has revamped its four-processor Sun Fire V480 server with faster processors, one of several machines on the front lines of Sun's efforts to compete with Intel-based servers. Sun's higher-end servers, which can mix several processor...
[August 4, 2003, 11:35]
Intel Chips Lift New Dell Servers
News The company's new two-processor systems are far less powerful than servers containing anywhere from four to 72 processors, but the new computers share some similar capabilities. Intel also is preparing a more expensive version, code-named Foster MP...
[February 20, 2002, 11:31]
For Servers, Size Matters
News Although some smaller manufacturers have come out with four-processor servers measuring 2U high, HP maintains that it is the first large manufacturer to offer one. Meanwhile, other manufacturers came out with two-processor servers containing Intel...
[March 10, 2003, 14:23]
Intel Unleashes Tulsa In Battle With AMD
News All four major server makers sell or will sell Opteron servers, and AMD has risen to claim 26 percent of the server processor market. Intel is fighting back with its "Woodcrest" Xeon for dual-processor servers and now with Tulsa for higher-end models.
[August 30, 2006, 9:25]
Dell Rolls Out AMD-based Servers
News Dell on Monday began selling its first servers using AMD's Opteron processor, ending another chapter of Intel exclusivity. The computer maker has launched two systems: the four-processor PowerEdge 6950, for higher-end tasks such as housing...
[October 24, 2006, 9:00]
AMD Alliance 'doesn't Undermine Intel' - HP
News Hewlett-Packard has announced three servers that use Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip and a long-term partnership with the chipmaker but strenuously argued that the move doesn't undermine servers using another processor: Intel's Itanium.
[February 25, 2004, 9:05]
Sun Pins Hopes On Cherrystone Servers
News Sun has released numerous servers based on its newer UltraSparc III processor, but the four-processor Cherrystone system is arriving later than hoped. A V480 with 4GB of memory and two of its four-processor slots full costs less than four-processor...
[June 18, 2002, 9:02]
IBM Plans 2003 Muscle Servers
News The company is poised to release its first "blade" servers and 16-processor Intel-based systems in coming weeks. For eight-processor servers, HP was king of the heap in the third quarter a year ago with 50 percent of sales, beating out IBM's 15...
[November 28, 2002, 7:40]
HP Revamps Intel Servers With Xeon Chips
News The six new servers will range from a beefed-up desktop machine with a single Pentium 4 to a four-processor system with the new Xeon chips and high-end features, said Jean-Jacques Ozil, worldwide marketing manager for volume systems.
[March 12, 2002, 15:02]
Intel Close To Quad-core Tigerton Launch
News Tigerton is a quad-core server processor designed for servers with four or more chips that is part of an overall platform code named "Caneland". Intel plans to hold launch briefings next Wednesday in the US with Dell, HP , IBM and Sun to preview...
[August 29, 2007, 11:47]
Dell In Double-headed Four-way Server Launch
News Dell claims the machines will deliver 32 percent faster performance than its previous four-processor servers and said the database-oriented computers are ideal for tasks such as server consolidation and virtualisation, and migration from RISC...
[March 24, 2005, 9:05]
Flexible Hammer Knocks On Server Doors
News Two weeks from now, Intel will try to move further up the ladder with Itanium 2, a new processor that will be incorporated into servers containing four to 64 chips. The differing performance requirements between server classes also mean that...
[July 1, 2002, 11:34]
IBM Server: Buy Now, Upgrade Later
News Although a number of companies, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, offer four-, eight- and 16-processor servers, IBM claims this new variant of its x440 has an advantage because of the ability to add processors.
[August 22, 2002, 15:21]
