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AMD, apparently eager to get its Bulldozer core out the door, might be shipping its next generation architecture sooner than we thought. Mike Magee over at TechEye.net says he recently met up with John Fruehe, who said that AMD plans to start sampling …
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Intel on Tuesday unveiled its fastest enterprise and high-performance computing chip ever as part of its new Xeon 7500 series. Based on the company’s Nehalem architecture, Intel says the launch represents the largest performance leap in Intel Xeon processor history, with an average improvement of 3x across a range of benchmarks. To put it into perspective, the No. 1 chip makers claims data centers can replace 20 single-core servers with a single Xeon 7500 processor series-based system and never skip a beat.
"The Xeon 7500 brings mission critical capabilities to the mainstream by delivering the most significant leap in performance, scalability, and reliability ever seen from Intel," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president of the Intel architecture group and general manager of Intel’s data center group. "This combination will help users push to new levels of productivity, and accelerate the industry’s migration away from proprietary architectures. We are democratizing high-end computing."
Intel says it managed to set over 20 new benchmarking world records, and it’s not hard to see why. The 7500 series supports up to eight integrated cores and 16 threads, and can scale up to 32 cores and 64 threads per 4-chip platform, or 64 cores and 128 threads per 8-chip platform.
There are eight chips in the new series, culminating with the Xeon X7560 (2.26GHz, 24MB cache, 130W TDP).
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AMD is looking to take the server and datacenter markets by storm and has announced the availability of the "world’s first 8- and 12-core x86 processor for the high-volume 2P and value 4P server market." According to AMD, it’s Opteron 6000 Series platform offers up to a 119 percent improved performance (floating point) while still maintaining low price and power.
"As AMD has done before, we are again redefining the server market based on current customer requirements," said Patrick Patla, vice president and general manger, Server and Embedded Divisions, AMD. "The AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform signals a new era of server value, significantly disrupts today’s server economics, and provides the performance-per-watt, value, and consistency customers demand for their real-world datacenter workloads."
In addition to improved floating point performance, AMD says its new 6000 Series increases integer performance by up to 88 percent, while the enhanced integrated memory controller supports four channels of DDR3 memory for up to a 2.5x improvement in overall memory bandwidth.
AMD is also touting "significant new power management features," and compared to Intel’s offerings, the No. 2 chip maker says "it feels like the power efficiency is clearly in our court."
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