Six-Core AMD Opteron™ HE Processor Delivers up to 18 Percent Higher Performance-Per Watt and up to 18 Percent Lower Platform-Level Power Consumption
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the immediate availability of three new members of the Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor family that specifically address rising demand for balanced systems with increased performance yet greater power-efficiency [...]
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Microsoft, Sun Utilize AMD-V™ Technology to Drive Leading Virtualization Products and Performance
Continuing its momentum and leadership in virtualization technology, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) today released the first video and images demonstrating live migration across three generations of AMD processors on VMware ESX 3.5, including the Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor code-named “Istanbul.” Live Migration [...]
Sun Blades Sales Growth Outpaces Competitors with More than 60 Percent Increase, Sun’s x64 Server Revenue Grew over 20 Percent Year over Year According to Industry Analyst; Sun’s x64 Servers Deliver Compute, Networking and Virtualization Excellence
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced several customers have selected Sun Fire(TM) x64 servers to power deployments in a wide [...]
A server configured with new AMD (NYSE: AMD) low power Opteron “Shanghai HE” processors used 13 to 21 percent less power while delivering better throughput when compared to a virtually identical server configured with Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) Xeon “low power” processors. The test results were collected during extensive testing by Neal Nelson, an independent computer [...]
Dessau Details How Trends in x86 Computing Are Transforming the Way Companies Do Business
Handelsblatt Annual Congress
Today at the Handelsblatt Annual Congress in Munich, AMD (NYSE: AMD) Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Nigel Dessau addressed an international audience of CIOs and senior IT managers in a keynote that examined how trends in x86 computing [...]
— New Highly Efficient 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ HE processors now available in systems from Global OEMs and solution providers —
MUMBAI, India. — Jan. 27, 2009— Addressing the number one challenge for data center managers1, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced widespread availability of five new low-power 45nm Quad-Core [...]
45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor Achieves Performance Leadership on Critical Online Business Workloads Including Web Serving, Online Transaction Processing and Database Management
As the online holiday shopping season reaches its busiest time, the Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor family is now the ideal solution for e-tailers based on performance results AMD (AMD: NYSE) announced today. The [...]
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it expects revenue from continuing operations for the fourth quarter ended December 27, 2008 to be approximately 25 percent lower than third quarter 2008 revenue of $1.585 billion, not including process technology license revenue. The decrease is due to weaker than expected demand across all geographies and businesses, particularly [...]
—“Shanghai” platform delivers sweeping virtualization performance leadership, live migration capability and up to 40 percent increase in virtualization performance[i]—
— Enhanced 45nm design and industry’s most stable x86 server platform architecture delivers the features and efficiencies today’s data center demands—
Bangalore, India. — Nov. 13, 2008 —AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced widespread availability of its 45nm [...]
Quad-Core AMD Opteron-based Sun Server Sets x86 SPECjbb2005 World Record, Beats HP and Dell by Up to 85%
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the new SPECjbb2005 world record score, which beats all other x86 systems on the market. The Sun Fire(TM) X4600 M2 server, equipped with eight Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) model 8360SE processors and [...]
