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With Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, Microsoft may enforce new pricing and licensing requirements for systems with server-grade CPUs. Downgrade rights to Windows 7 and 8.1 may also see a price hike.

Muhammad Jarir Kanji · Oct 11, 2017 · Hot! with 21 comments

AMD has announced the launch of the Opteron 6200 processors, code named Interlagos, for the server market, becoming the first company to offer a PC processor with 16 cores on a single chip.

John Callaham · Nov 14, 2011 · Hot! with 20 comments

Today AMD announced that it will begin shipping its latest processor the "Shanghai" quad-core Opteron processors for servers and workstations and will talk about the new chip today in its annual Financial Analyst Day...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Nov 13, 2008 · Hot! with 13 comments

In the only raw performance test figures revealed yesterday by Intel Senior Vice President Pat Gelsinger at Fall IDF in San Francisco, preliminary tests of the company's forthcoming quad-core "Harpertown" architecture Xeon 5400 show it...

· Sep 19, 2007 with 2 comments

AMD is trying to breath new life into its dual-core Opteron by upping the chip to 3.2GHz just weeks before Barcelona rolls on store shelves. AMD announced today the pricing and availability to its Opteron...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Aug 6, 2007 · Hot! with 26 comments

Advanced Micro Devices has begun quietly selling new 3GHz versions of its dual-core Opteron server processor, the 2222 SE and 8222 SE, which feature higher performance but consume up to 120 watts compared to 95...

· Apr 20, 2007 · Hot! with 20 comments

Dave Graham has posted images of an AMD Opteron 2218 processor running on an ASUS L1N64-SLI motherboard, which is designed for AMD's Quad FX platform. The motherboard BIOS detects the processor correctly and functions properly....

· Feb 4, 2007 · Hot! with 4 comments

Nvidia today launched the nForce Pro 3000 chipset family for servers and workstations based on AMD's recently announced DDR 2 SDRAM-supporting dual-core Opteron processors. The chipsets are aimed at machines containing one to eight or...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Aug 15, 2006 with -1 comments

IBM and Advanced Micro Devices are expected to announce an alliance, August 1st at a New York event featuring Hector Ruiz, AMD's chief executive, and Susan Whitney, head of IBM's x86 server group, that will...

· Jul 20, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Sun Microsystems' Opteron orgy has scaled up to an eight-way with the arrival of the Sun Fire X4600. Elsewhere, Linux has made its way to Sun's new UltraSPARC T1 chips. Sun still won't "officially" discuss...

· May 31, 2006 with -1 comments

Advanced Micro Devices has been relatively open in terms of its technology and platform roadmap, however, the firm is extremely tight-lipped about specifications or features of concrete products. Nevertheless, as web-site has published details concerning...

· May 3, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Advanced Micro Devices is trying to track down and replace as many as 3,000 faulty Opteron processors that could produce "inconsistent results" under an unusual circumstance. The potential problem affects a number of single-core...

· Apr 28, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

More than three years after rival Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices has managed to launch processors that officially work at 3.0GHz clock-speed, a landmark speed-bin. While performance-wise such chips are much faster compared to central...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Apr 11, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Advanced Micro Devices denied on Tuesday rumours spread by a web-site regarding cancellation of production of AMD Opteron processors for servers and workstation designed for desktop-oriented 939-pin infrastructure. The company said it would continue to...

· Dec 14, 2005 with -1 comments

Sun introduced its new "industry-standard" 64-bit server line today in New York City. The company hopes that its new AMD based server series will compete with server market giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Sun...

· Sep 12, 2005 with -1 comments

Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz said Wednesday during the company's first quarter fiscal 2005 conference call that the company's first server dual-core chips with two processing engines will be formally announced on the 21st...

· Apr 14, 2005 with -1 comments

Advanced Micro Devices is expected to launch new Opteron chips later this month that combine dual processing engines on a single slice of silicon, CNET News.com has learned. AMD will announce at...

· Apr 8, 2005 with -1 comments

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which originally was scheduled to launch its dual-core Opteron processor in the third quarter of this year, may advance the launch to the middle of the second quarter, according to sources...

· Apr 1, 2005 with -1 comments

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is rolling out a low-power 64-bit Opteron processor that company officials said is ideal for dense platforms such as blade servers. At the Server Blade Summit 2005 in Santa Clara, Calif.,...

· Mar 22, 2005 with -1 comments

AMD has announced three new 64-bit Opteron processors for servers, boosting top speeds to 2.6 GHz and increasing HyperTransport bus performance to 1 GHz. The new models also incorporate the SSE3 software instructions Intel previously...

· Feb 15, 2005 with -1 comments

Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce on Monday technology that will help its server processors run cooler when idle, a feature that could help customers grapple with electricity and air-conditioning costs. Processor...

· Dec 6, 2004 with -1 comments

If you plan on installing Microsoft's 64-bit version of Windows XP on your Intel Nocona Xeon processors you're out of luck. Apparently the 64-bit version Windows can't run with Nocona extensions. However you...

· Jul 6, 2004 with -1 comments

Sun Microsystems is giving away free Opteron-based Sun workstations to Java developers. The catch is you have to sign on for a three-year subscription to Sun Java Studio Enterprise. For serious Java developers...

· Jun 25, 2004 with -1 comments

A German site is reporting about a newly submitted bug that affects AMD's Opteron systems. The bug itself "Could cause Opteron systems to hang or incorrect results to be produced." Already AMD representatives...

· Jun 21, 2004 · Hot! with -1 comments

More than a year after its debut, AMD is gearing up for some core shifts to its 64-bit processor families. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor maker said it has completed the design of its...

Michael Stanclift · Jun 16, 2004 with -1 comments

AMD is expected to introduce the Opteron 250 on the 18th of May. At the same time, the recent price cuts reported on the INQUIRER also mean some changes to the AMD server line up....

· May 8, 2004 with -1 comments

One year has passed since the announcement of AMD Opteron processors. Looking firmly forward, AMD's chief executive officer is pretty confident about the future of his company's technology and is anticipating the next big thing...

· Apr 29, 2004 with -1 comments

On the first birthday of AMD's Opteron, Hewlett-Packard has become the first major vendor to offer a four-processor server based on the 64-bit chip. HP's new ProLiant DL585 is a 4U, Opteron-powered sister...

· Apr 25, 2004 with -1 comments

Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. have all jumped onto the Opteron bandwagon. Dell Inc. remains the only top-tier server maker yet to adopt the 64-bit processor. However, if Hector de Ruiz (AMD CEO)...

· Apr 23, 2004 with -1 comments

Advanced Micro Devices has gone from an afterthought among server customers to the darling of the enterprise world in just a year. The company's Opteron chip has opened the doors of corporate server rooms for...

· Apr 22, 2004 with -1 comments

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has persuaded three more top OEMs to use the Opteron, but it has a long way to go in persuading many big-enterprise customers to switch from systems that use Intel Corp....

· Apr 19, 2004 with -1 comments

THE END OF JUNE looks set to be a Rubicon for Intel - this is when they have promised their manufacturing partners such as Dell, HP, and IBM, the next version of the Xeon DP,...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Mar 25, 2004 with -1 comments

US Distributors tell us to expect a round of fresh price cuts on Opteron processors and the like in early May. Although we have no details of such pricing quite yet, we're wondering if the...

· Mar 23, 2004 with -1 comments

Dell Computer Corp. has no plans to develop Opteron servers "today," contradicting a French report that Dell officials said misquoted founder Michael Dell. French IT publication o1net quoted Micahel Dell as saying, "Quant Ã savoir...

· Mar 4, 2004 with -1 comments

AMD got the attention of Microsoft with their 64-bit Athlon 64/Opteron platform, and it was enough attention to warrant a new OS port to x86-64. Just weeks ago AMD scored another victory, with Intel announcing...

· Mar 3, 2004 with -1 comments

Hewlett-Packard plans to announce Tuesday that it is developing products based on the Opteron processor from Advanced Micro Devices, say sources familiar with the company's plans. The announcement comes one week after Intel announced plans...

· Feb 23, 2004 with -1 comments

Sun Microsystems has been notoriously late bringing hardware to market on schedule, but if an industry analyst is to be believed, its new line of Opteron servers will arrive right on time. Sun...

· Jan 20, 2004 with -1 comments

One of the world's most known memory experts – Transcend – released its new registered PC3200 memory modules for server applications in general and AMD Opteron-powered solutions in particular. Transcend's new 1GB PC3200 memory modules...

· Jan 10, 2004 with -1 comments

SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft has made the Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition for 64 bit Extended Systems – what a mouthful – available as a beta. Theis comes in both standard and enterprise editions, and is...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jan 6, 2004 with -1 comments

SOURCES SAID that Intel has bought a number of Opteron based servers from Appro, and that AMD knows about it. The 4U four way servers from Appro, a system builder, are part of AMD's validated...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Dec 15, 2003 with -1 comments