IT LOOKS LIKE the brown stuff has hit the rotating blades in the ongoing Intel vs AMD antitrust lawsuits. New York’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo just filed suit against Intel for all sorts of nasty things.
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WESTERN DIGITAL HAS finally thrown its hat into the SAS ring with the release of the S25 line. Most observers were not expecting this, thinking WD would go from SATA directly to SSDs.
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TILERA IS CLAIMING to have the first commercial CPU to reach 100 cores, and while this is true, the real interesting technology is in the interconnects. The overall chip is quite a marvel, and it is unlike any mainstream CPU you have ever heard of.
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SUPERMICRO WAS AT IDF showing off the usual server and workstation toys. Because it had a bunch of new products at Computex, and there haven’t subsequently been any really new Intel chips, the boards on display were evolutionary, not revolutionary.
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LSI AND REDHAT were showing off the next step in hardware virtualization, IOV or I/O Virtualization, during IDF. The idea is simple, make SAS or SATA cards aware of virtual spaces, speeding up I/O for VMs many times.
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AMD OFFICIALLY BROKE SILENCE on the Fiorana and Kroner platforms, right on top of IDF. Most of the specifications are already known, but there are a few interesting things left to tell you about.
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WHEN CISCO JUMPED into the blade server market with its first Project California blades, that was big news, but the hardware was a yawner. The new ‘Ventura’ blades we were shown at IDF are going to change the game, radically.
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SEAN MALONEY GOT all the good toys to show off at IDF this year, with Larrabee, Jasper, Gulftown and much more. There is a lot of good silicon in the pipeline.
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ONE OF THE MOST recognizable and influential Intel executives, Pat Gelsinger, is no longer with the company. His rather sudden departure means a massive reshuffling that reaches just about every corner of Intel.
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WHEN I FIRST saw the product that Adaptec is calling MaxIQ at CeBIT in March, it looked interesting, but was overwhelmed by the 5Z ultracapacitor backed RAID card. Now that Adaptec has let out all the details, the MaxIQ SSD RAID accelerator is by far the more interesting product.
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AS WE SAID a few days ago, Intel is launching the new Lynnfield CPUs and the P55 chipset that goes with them. The CPU comes in three desktop flavors and six server variants.
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AMD RELEASED THE last member of the Istanbul family this morning, the 40W EE version. For a six core, 1.8GHz chip, this is a pretty low power draw.
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INTEL HAS TALKED about Becton, now called Nehalem EX, without going into many technical details. At Hot Chips 21, it is starting to talk about the guts of the chip, and it is very different from the EX-free Nehalems.
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AMD FINALLY STARTED to publicly talk about Magny-Cours and socket G34 during the Hot Chips 21 conference. The socket has a lot of complexities, so for now, we will only take a look at the interconnects, both on chip and off.
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INTEL PUT OUT four new Nehalem CPUs today for both server and workstation markets. They are mostly just speed and power variants of the current chips, both on the low and high end.
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