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Opteron Upgrades Ready For Launch
News AMD plans to announce faster new models of its dual-core Opteron processor on Monday, an attempt to stay ahead of rival Intel in the market. The company is introducing its Opteron 180, 280 and 880, which are 2.4GHz chips geared for computers with...
[September 26, 2005, 12:05]
Opteron Launches Amidst Benchmark Fanfare
News Advanced Micro Devices released its touted Opteron processor on Tuesday, and a number of companies followed with servers, chipsets, software and benchmark scores. Unlike Intel chips, Opteron can run 32-bit software, which is found on desktops and...
[April 22, 2003, 13:48]
Opteron Hoping To Light Up Sun's Galaxy
News Sun plans to announce on 12 September its "Galaxy" line of AMD Opteron-based servers, a product family developed by hardware guru Andy Bechtolsheim that's a central part of the company's recovery plan.
[September 5, 2005, 8:30]
Opteron Strikes Up A Quartet
News Servers containing up to four Opteron processors will hit the market later this quarter, a key element in Advanced Micro Devices' strategy to penetrate the corporate market. Two-processor servers based on Opteron, along with a host of chipsets and...
[April 22, 2003, 13:07]
Opteron Drivers On Install Disc Are Dreadful (especially USB)
Member Review I've been testing the full release version that came from MSDN and the Opteron (AMD 8000 chipset) drivers are dreadful. The USB service keeps hanging (on and after installation) and you need to restart the system to get it working again.
[April 26, 2005, 14:16]
Opteron Servers Handle Growth Of Weather.Com
White Papers The Opteron servers give the Web site the capacity it needs to deliver increasingly customized information, as well as handle spikes during severe weather events. Traffic to Weather.com, the Internet arm of cable television's The Weather Channel...
[May 29, 2004, 0:00]
Introducing You To... Opteron
News The Opteron chip introduces AMD's new 64-bit architecture, AMD64, and its X86-64 instruction set. Opteron is designed for workstation and server use, with a future related chip, the Athlon 64, due later this year and intended for desktops.
[April 23, 2003, 15:49]
Opteron Flexes Supercomputing Muscles
News AMD's Opteron chip soared up the latest ranking of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, while Intel's Itanium continued to fall and IBM took top honours among vendors. AMD's Opteron processors now can be found in 81 of the servers, up...
[June 28, 2006, 16:05]
Sun Announces Desktop Linux Deal, Opteron Integration
News Sun Microsystems introduced Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron into its server family and announced a deal in China that's expected to boost its Linux desktop software. The use of Opteron "allows us to take the research and development and push more...
[November 18, 2003, 9:30]
Opteron Prices Cut
News AMD cut prices on several Opteron processors this week as the company prepares to introduce new memory technology and a new socket for its server chips. Multiple chips within the Opteron 200 series and Opteron 800 series processors now cost far...
[February 16, 2006, 12:05]
Opteron Gets A Performance Boost
News Advanced Micro Devices announced on Tuesday that it has amplified the performance of its Opteron processors for computer servers. The chipmaker on Tuesday launched three new Opteron models, including models 250, 150 and 850, designed for servers...
[May 18, 2004, 16:35]
Network Performance Evaluation On An IBM E325 Opteron Cluster
White Papers The IBM e325, the first AMD Opteron processor-based server from IBM, is an outstanding computing power designed for HPC applications. Network performance evaluation is an important measurement that is used to adjust and tune up cluster systems for...
[September 21, 2004, 0:00]
Sun Plans Opteron Software Support
News Sun Microsystems' software products will support Advanced Micro Devices' new Opteron processor -- but not initially the chip's 64-bit capabilities that distinguish it from rival Intel processors. The support will include Sun's version of Unix...
[April 22, 2003, 10:46]
AMD Bets All Its Chips On Opteron
News The reasoning behind Opteron's 64-bit characteristic revolves around memory. The Opteron processor, first revealed in 1999, represents the company's best opportunity ever to sell chips to corporate customers and into the lucrative server market.
[April 22, 2003, 10:10]
IBM Readies Opteron Workstation
News IBM on Tuesday will unveil a workstation based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip that's designed to help customers manage larger files and more engineering data. The company first discussed plans to offer the Opteron workstation last year.
[March 16, 2004, 8:00]
Sun Shines On AMD's Opteron Chip
News Sun Microsystems is likely to adopt the Opteron processor from AMD as it extends into new branches of the server market. Sun has been testing the forthcoming Opteron chip for servers in its labs, and has found interest for the chip among customers...
[April 9, 2003, 7:17]
EDA: Shorten The Design Cycle With Sun X64 Opteron Systems
White Papers This webcast focuses on the computational needs of the EDA market and how Sun's AMD Opteron systems are driving design efficiencies. In the electronic design automation (EDA) community, a shorter design cycle drives time to market; and time to...
[April 15, 2005, 0:00]
AMD To Unveil 'Rev F' Opteron Chips
News AMD plans to announce its new "Rev F" generation of Opteron server processors Tuesday, the next volley in a competition with Intel's newly competitive Xeon models. Sun has bet heavily on Opteron, counting on the processor family's distinctions as a...
[August 15, 2006, 9:05]
HP Spruces Up Opteron Lines
News HP has upgraded a four-processor server with AMD's new dual-core Opteron and introduced a blade server with the chip. The ProLiant DL585 system will be available with all three speed grades of the new Opteron - 1.8Gz, 2.0GHz and 2.2GHz - said Steve...
[April 21, 2005, 10:35]
Slim Opteron Server On The Way
News Appro International, a small Silicon Valley company, is planning to sell a super-slim server using AMD's new Opteron server processor. Appro's system, with 80 dual-Opteron computers in a single six-foot rack, will cost between $160,000 and $320,000...
[March 21, 2003, 8:37]
