Servers
AMD gooses the clocks on 'Bulldozer' Opterons
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 …
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.
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
Re: SPARC
Yup. Wrote it up here earlier this week:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/11/hot_chips_24_preview/
