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AMD socket opens doors to others
News Now it is licensing the processor socket design as well, said Marty Seyer, senior vice president for AMD's commercial business. Manufacturers that have licensed the socket technology include IBM, Sun, Cray and Fujitsu, Seyer said.
[September 21, 2006, 9:25]
ABIT readies 100MHz Socket 7 AGP board
News Based on Acer's ALi Aladdin V chipset, the IT5A will support AMD's K6 3D processor (the first Socket 7 processor to tap 100MHz bus speeds) when it is released in the spring, probably in April or May. Taiwan's ABIT today lent a hand to the non-Intel...
[January 20, 1998, 10:41]
Intel to produce more powerful server chip
News The processor, designed for four-socket and larger servers, will replace Intel's existing DP line, and includes features previously introduced in the company's Itanium server processors. Other aspects of the chip designed to improve performance...
[May 27, 2009, 8:24]
Oracle cuts fees in multicore shift
News With the new pricing for Oracle's lower-end Standard Edition and Standard Edition One products, the software company now is effectively matching Microsoft's practice of pegging price to a server's processor socket count and rather than processor...
[March 2, 2007, 14:22]
AMD introduces Socket 939 Athlon 64 chips review
Reviews AMD's latest round of Athlon 64 releases marks the debut of Socket 939 -- yet another new pin layout. This gives the chip-maker the chance to introduce dual-channel memory control without impinging on its Opteron server range, which uses Socket 940.
[June 1, 2004, 9:10]
AMD details Opteron upgrade plans
News Intel also plans to release its first quad-core Xeon models in 2007 - Clovertown for dual-processor systems and Tigerton for four-socket systems. And the Socket F connector, with 1,207 electrical connections, will accommodate quad-core Opterons...
[March 7, 2006, 12:35]
HP refreshes server lines
News We are not refreshing our eight-socket platforms," Lacey said. For eight-socket and above, we see the market space driven by our Integrity platforms," models employing Intel's Itanium, he said. HP revealed its decision to skip eight-processor...
[March 30, 2005, 9:30]
McNealy takes pricing fight to Oracle
News That has triggered a pricing debate for software companies: Should the charge per chip socket or per processor core? Microsoft, Sun, Intel, AMD and HP prefer per-socket pricing. Software companies, on the other hand, stand to lose potential revenue...
[December 9, 2004, 7:30]
AMD Athlon 64: the benchmarks review
Reviews GHz, dual DDR400 interface, 1MB Level 2 cache, Socket 940 ($733) Socket type GHz, single DDR400 interface, 1MB Level 2 cache, Socket 754 ($417) The long-awaited 64-bit processor based on AMD’s Hammer architecture is finally available for desktop...
[September 25, 2003, 16:35]
Dell sets out new product strategy
News Along with these dual-socket systems, Dell also introduced the quad-core Intel processor into the four-socket 6800 and 6850 PowerEdge servers. Another headline feature of the Dell announcement was the introduction of Dell's first AMD Opteron-based...
[November 8, 2006, 15:45]
UK firm to unveil wall-socket PC
News Containing all the electronics needed to run as a low- to medium-power PC, the Jack PC, as its name suggests, will fit into a standard size wall socket. The power of a PC shrunk to a wall socket: the Jack PC
[May 31, 2006, 13:45]
IBM System x3455 review
Reviews Other than these differences, the processor specification is much the same, with 2MB of L2 cache per socket (1MB per core), support for DDR2 memory and built-in hardware virtualisation features (AMD-V) — useful when running applications such as...
[February 26, 2007, 14:48]
Athlon 64 FX-53: end of the waiting game? review
Reviews AMD is currently preparing a new processor packaging for its Hammer cores, called Socket 939. So if the grapevine's right, around mid-year, that spanking new Socket 940 FX-53 will itself be spanked by a much cheaper Socket 939 (with dual-channel...
[March 22, 2004, 10:45]
AMD's new budget processors review
Reviews The 3100+ processor is based on the K8 architecture (using Socket 754) without the 64-bit support, while the rest of the lineup is based on the older K7 Thoroughbred core (using Socket A). According to benchmark figures from AMD, the 2GHz 2800...
[August 5, 2004, 10:10]
AMD turns up the Athlon heat
News At the same time AMD will begin a move to a less expensive processor packaging, called Socket A. It will be available with either Slot A or Socket A packaging, Herb said. Another Athlon variant, code-named Spitfire, will be available only with...
[November 12, 1999, 8:59]
Merced: Intel's 64 bit revolution
News For this reason, existing chip packaging and connectors, such as Slot 1, or Socket 370 will not be adequate for Merced and the chip will use a new system called Socket M. As with any other significant advance in PC technology, the planned launch of...
[March 16, 1999, 16:23]
Intel launches six-core Dunnington chips
News This was achieved on an IBM eight-socket System x based on the TPC-C benchmark. Four-socket systems from vendors including HP and Sun also set records, based on key enterprise-related benchmarks. Eddie Toh, Intel's regional platform marketing...
[September 16, 2008, 9:06]
AMD crashes Intel's desert chipfest
News Thunderbird will also support new packaging, called Socket A. VIA Technologies will also release a new chipset for Athlon on Socket A. The processors will also utilise the Socket A package and integrated cache, but will receive less cache than...
[February 17, 2000, 10:06]
Intel's portable Timna to debut at 700MHz, (Part II)
News Timna will utilise the current Celeron packaging, as 370 pin socket, called Socket 370. The processor core is based on Intel's Katmai core, which was used for the original Pentium III chips (up to 600MHz) manufactured using a 0.25 micron process.
[September 8, 2000, 13:18]
Focus: Processor makers' flippin' genius
News Instead, the chip, with its on-die L2 cache, could be mounted in socket packaging, with its pins on the bottom -- the "pin grid array". Socket packages are much cheaper to manufacture than the bulky slot package: industry analysts estimate...
[May 2, 2000, 9:11]
