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Chip giant Intel has hogged all of the headlines lately in the server racket lately, and Advanced Micro Devices this morning is trying to get a word in edge-wise with some clock speed bumps on its "Bulldozer" family of processors for server with one, two, or four sockets. Don't get too excited, though. This is not a rev on the …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    If it's Free, it's for me!

    100 MHz. bump isn't a big deal. Piledriver based Opterons will offer more performance when released in Q4.

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  2. Kebabbert

    SPARC

    is coming. Nice to see competition in the cpu arena:

    http://www.hotchips.org/

    -SPARC64 X; Fujitsu’s new generation 16 core processor for the next generation UNIX servers

    -16-core SPARC T5 CMT Processor with glueless 1-hop scaling to 8-sockets

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    1. tpm (Written by Reg staff)
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      Re: SPARC

      Yup. Wrote it up here earlier this week:

      http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/11/hot_chips_24_preview/

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