Posted September 11, 2012, 11:00 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
SeaMicro has unveiled the first product updates to its energy-efficient server platform since being acquired by AMD earlier this year, launching the SM15000 server and Freedom Fabric storage enclosures. The new servers are aimed squarely at the cloud computing market, offering...
Posted July 12, 2012, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
AMD has been given a grant under the FastForward program to the tune of $12.6 million to research next generation supercomputing technology. The program is a joint effort between the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of Energy designed…
Posted March 1, 2012, 9:54 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News
AMD has announced plans to acquire SeaMicro, a Silicon Valley startup that specializes in building high-density low-power servers, in a cash and stock deal valued at $334 million. The move came as a bit of a surprise considering all the…
Posted November 17, 2011, 10:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
AMD quietly changed the pricing on some of their Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) and even introduced a new Athlon-branded CPU. Such changes took a back seat to the launch of enterprise Opteron 6200 and 4200 processors based on Bulldozer architecture…
AMD has announced the availability of its first sixteen-core server chips, the new Opteron 6200 (codenamed "Interlagos"), as well as a new six and eight-core parts launching under the Opteron 4200 series (codenamed "Valencia"). The company is promising up to…
Posted September 8, 2011, 11:01 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
AMD yesterday announced that it had begun shipping its first chips based on the new Bulldozer core. Unfortunately for PC desktop enthusiasts, the company was referring to Opteron server parts and not the Zambezi (FX Series) desktop chips we've been…
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