6 posts and columns on Opteron

Patrick Moorhead, Longtime AMD Exec, Leaving Company

in News on November 4, 2011 at 10:45 am PT

The last of a generation of AMD VPs who had been hired by its legendary founder, Jerry Sanders, is headed for the exit.
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Ah, But Is It Vista Capable?

in News on June 18, 2008 at 7:36 am PT

It’s likely a challenge to program and a bitch to debug, but IBM’s new Roadrunner supercomputer is the most powerful in the world. With 12,240 cell processors typically found in Sony’s PlayStation 3 console and another 6,562 dual-core AMD Opteron chips, Roadrunner has been benchmarked at 1.026 petaflops (1.026 quadrillion calculations per second).

Microsoft Snags Multimap

in Social on December 12, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

The Opterons? We Bought Them at the CompUSA Tehran Going-out-of-Business Sale

in News on December 12, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

The ban on the export of U.S. computer equipment to Iran hasn’t stopped the Middle Eastern nation from building a supercomputer out of Advanced Micro Devices chips. The Iranian High Performance Computing Research Center claims to have assembled a machine with a theoretical peak performance of 860 gigaflops from 216 AMD Opteron processors. How did [...]

1 Million iPhones Down, 9 Million to Go

in News on September 10, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Now if Only You Could Multi-Core Your Earnings

in News on September 10, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

It’s slower than initial expectations and about six months later than originally promised, but Advanced Micro Devices’ quad-core Opteron (Barcelona) processor is still a milestone for the company and perhaps an antidote for its sagging financial fortunes. The new server chip, which puts four processors on a single silicon die, is the first of its [...]