“One of the most competitive markets in computing is servers, with companies always looking for more efficient processing to accommodate more complex simulations or decrease operating costs. For years, the X86 segment of the server market was controlled by Intel’s Xeon offerings, but in recent years, a new contender has emerged, AMD’s Opteron. Will the return of the co-processor ensure a victory for Opteron?”Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
Processors
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion CPU Performance @ AnandTech
- Intel Core versus AMD’s K8 architecture @ AnandTech
- Intel’s Pentium XE 965 and 955 Processors @ Hardware Zone
- Intel Pentium D 930 @ Neoseeker
- Microprocessor History, Part 1 @ BTX Form Factor Info
- Eight Core Servers: Opteron 880 (Egypt) vs. Xeon MP 3.0 GHz (Paxville) @ AnandTech
Can Co-Processors Co-opt server dominance for AMD
Gideon Tech takes a look into Opteron’s future, and the consequences of the amount of bandwith HyperTransport3 will provide. They feel it heralds a return of the co-processor, like the K-6’s of old and their math co-processors. Read on to see what tasks they expect to see passed onto it.
