AMD Barcelona

Check out the most significant architectural change in the x86 architecture in 13 years, the Intel Core i7. Intel has completely reinvented their CPU design, removing the antiquated Front Side Bus and replacing it with the Intel QuickPath Interconnect, delivering up to 6.4 GT/s. Also the Core i7 line is the integrated memory controller, supporting Triple Channel DDR3 Memory allowing for more maximum memory, up to 24GB on some boards, and...  

Advanced Micro Devices will launch its twelve-core AMD Opteron “Magny-Cours” central processing units (CPUs) for high-end servers in March, 2010, sources close to the company revealed. AMD plans to unveil a broad family of twelve- and eight-core chips for multi-processor machines with different performance and thermal design power points. The mainstream line of twelve-core AMD Opteron 6000-series processors will consist of three chips...  

Last post by: markkooper (23 Dec 23:56): Then why not try increasing the buffer size. Although I would still like to know what latency your running at. A buffer size that big isn't normal for that spec.But I doubt the drop out and clicks are causes of hardware conflicts as by diagnosis all the symptoms are pointing to a software problem.  

If you want a little extra 'oomph' available before you buy your MacBook Pro, Apple has an answer for you. According to AppleInsider, customers now have the option of purchasing a 3.33 GHz quad-core processor. Previously, the only options for processors we...  

Apple has quietly updated its professional and server lines with new high-end configurations. The Mac Pro quad-core model now includes an option to replace the base configuration's 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon processor with a 3.33 GHz Intel Xeon. Price? $1,200 for the processor swap. Newly available in both the quad-core model and the eight-core model is the capability to replace each of base configuration's hard drives with 2 TB 7200 rpm drives...  

Apple has added new build-to-order options for some of its Mac Pro and Xserve models. Specifically, a 3.33GHz 3500-series Xeon processor is now an option for the lower-end quad-core Mac Pro. Also, Apple now offers a 2TB drive option for both Mac Pros and Xserves. That's right, for a whopping $1,200, you can bump your quad-core Mac Pro to a 3.33Ghz Nehalem-based Xeon processor—the 8-core Mac Pro still maxes out at 2.93GHz...  

For our virtualization projects like JeOS Prototype / Virtual Appliances / VM Templates we need to have Desktop hardware with latest Hardware Accelerated Virtualization support, currently this mean AMD = AMD-V and Intel = VT-x platforms. Today is avaiable next (SECOND) generation of Hardware Accelerated Virtualization support focused onto improve memory performance AMD = RVI (Rapid Virtualization Technology) with Phenom CPU platform and...  

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The Sun Fire X4640 server with eight AMD Opteron model 8435 processors and running the Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System with Sun Studio 12 Update 1 compiler software, posted the top x86 result on SPECompL2001. The Sun Fire X4640 server with eight AMD Opteron model 8435 processors running 48 OpenMP threads achieved SPECompL2001 score of 381017. The Sun Fire X4640 server shows a 2.2x speedup when...  

Other World Computing (www.macsales.com) has announced third party 32GB 1066MHz DDR3 ECC memory upgrade for all Mac Pro quad-core Pro models, including the newest 3.33GHz model announced by Apple earlier this month. OWC memory upgrades offer all Mac Pro users up to double the original factory memory with kits of up to 32GB for all Mac Pro dual-core, quad-core, and 8-core Models. Pricing [...]  

AMD : http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amd.com%2F&esheet=6108103&lan=en_US&anchor=AMD&index=1&md5=caf7d35655b03bd245ad839b20934ebc (NYSE: AMD) announced that Troublemaker Studios is using Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processors and ATI FirePro™ graphics accelerators to create animations and special effects for its films, including “Shorts,” now available on Blu-ray and DVD. - AMD has a long history in the movie...  

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AMD (NYSE: AMD) today congratulates Microsoft Corp. on the significant achievement of bringing the Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating systems to the enterprise. Windows 7 is the perfect companion for AMD Business Class technology1 while Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor together provide a stable and reliable, high-performance enterprise computing environment. The...  

MacSpeech (www.macspeech.com) has released MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.8, an upgrade to the speech recognition solution for the Mac. It addresses an issue with audio input that only impacts the new iMacs with Core i5 and i7 quad-core processors. MacSpeech Dictate requires Intel-based Macintosh hardware and Mac OS X 10.5.6 or higher. New MacSpeech Dictate solutions, with a choice of headsets, are available [...]  

Anandtech takes a look at AMD's roadmap: "So far AMD has countered Intel’s higher “per core” performance with 50% more cores. Indeed, the six-core Opteron can keep up with the Xeon 5500 in quite a few applications. But Intel is readying a slightly improved six-core version of the Xeon 5500 series called Westmere-EP in the first half of 2010. Being a 32 nm high-K dielectric CPU, the six-core Westmere-EP wil offer about the same power...  

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