AMD progress with Istanbul CPUs

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Together with the announcement of the new Shanghai server processors, AMD shed some light on their upcoming six-core server processors codenamed Istanbul.
AMD isn’t relying on sheer number of cores, as they’re adding power management technologies and certain improvements to increase performance. Unlike the announced Shanghais, where the company hopes for similar performance at lower consumption, [...]

Intel’s first six-core CPU almost here

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

In september 2008 we are going to see 6-core Intel processors called Dunnington. These CPUs will belong to Xeon 7400 family targeted for scalable (up to 32-way), reliable, powerful 64-bit servers for enterprise applications. The line-up will include three models: Xeon X7460 with 2.67GHz clock freque