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Advanced Micro Devices, in releasing the Zen architecture and the Ryzen product family for consumer PCs, started down a path of growth in the processor market that it had been absent from for a decade.AMD’s AMD, +1.65%Ryzen 7 processor family directly targets Intel’s INTC, +0.46%  Core i7 line of processors (CPUs) that have been dominant and turns the market on its side by doubling core and thread counts at similar price points. The platform surrounding the CPU was modernized, leaving very little on the feature list that AMD couldn’t match to Intel’s own. Followed by the Ryzen 5 launch a...

A new feature in Istanbul is called HyperTransport Assist, a technology that increases memory and I/O performance by reducing the overhead of cache lockups. Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) on Monday launched its six-core server processor code-named Istanbul, saying computer makers this month would be selling high-powered products incorporating the chip. The release of AMD's latest Opteron chip followed less than a week after Intel (NSDQ: INTC) announced that it would begin production of an eight-core Nehalem-EX processor, officially called the Xeon 7400 line, this year. Systems are expected in 2010.

Last quarter AMD introduced their "Shanghai" Opteron processors that join the ranks of Intel's Harpertown Xeon CPUs that are 45nm quad-core server/workstation parts. Initial reviews of these new AMD Opteron processors have been very positive, but how do these chips perform with Linux? In this article we have our hands on a few of the fastest Shanghais, the AMD Opteron 2384 clocked at 2.7GHz, as we see how well they compare to the older "Barcelona" Opteron processors.

Advanced Micro Devices wants to pull off the market and replace a series of about 3,000 Opteron x52s and x54s chips which have a high-temperature induced bug which may lead to "inconsistent results" when running floating point (FP) code. The company announced on Friday that single-core Opteron 152, 154, 252, 254, 852 and 854 processors manufactured in late 2005 or early 2006. It seems that the issue was caused by a "test escape" and isn't a manufacturing or design problem. Basically, the fault manifests itself when the processors are running floating point-intensive code sequences and the CPU as well as...

Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce three new 2.6GHz Opteron models Monday, the newest step in its steady effort to encroach on a market that rival Intel once had to itself. The new dual-core Opteron models 185, 285 and 885 run at 2.6GHz and show performance improvements of about 4 percent to 15 percent compared with earlier top-end models running at 2.4GHz, said Brent Kerby, AMD's Opteron product marketing manager. The announcement comes a day before AMD's top competitor begins its twice-annual Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The 185 model is for single-processor systems and will be available within...

News Release Cray to Base Next-Generation Supercomputers on AMD Opteron(TM) Processor Platform; Firms Will Collaborate On Cray's 2006 DARPA HPCS Phase 3 Proposal SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2005--AMD (NYSE:AMD) and Cray Inc., (Nasdaq NM:CRAY) today announced that they have signed an agreement that extends their successful relationship through the end of the decade. Cray will continue to use AMD Opteron(TM) processors for the microprocessor-based supercomputer products Cray develops during this period. In addition, the two firms will actively collaborate on Cray's mid-2006 proposal for Phase 3 of the federal government's DARPA HPCS (High Productivity Computing Systems) program. "After an extensive...

CHANDLER, Ariz. (Reuters) - From a wind-swept industrial site in the Sonoran Desert, Intel Corp. (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , appears to be gearing up for battle. Construction crews hammer away at an unprecedented $2 billion upgrade to one of Intel's two Arizona factories, preparing the world's largest chip maker to safeguard its lead in manufacturing from resurgent rivals and to put recent costly missteps behind it. The stakes are high: If Intel can pull off its complex renovation of the 8-year-old Fab 12 plant, it could pioneer a much cheaper alternative to building chip fabrication facilities from scratch. For...

Sun Microsystems is placing Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip at the center of its low-end server strategy, starting with a dual-processor system, to be announced next month, and four- and eight-processor systems coming later. Sun plans to announce the dual-Opteron machine, called the v20z and with a starting price of less than $3,000, at its first quarterly news event of 2004, planned for Feb. 10 in San Francisco, sources familiar with the plan said. The announcement is expected to share the stage with details about how Sun's high-end products are being updated with the company's new UltraSparc IV processor....

New Supercomputer Due At The U1,000-Computer 'Metacluster' To Tackle Tough Biomedical Problems Media Contacts   August 13, 2003 -- Construction of a $2 million supercomputer comprised of 1,000 smaller computers will begin in September at the University of Utah, where researchers will use the powerful machine to tackle complex problems in biomedical research. “This will be by far the largest computer in the state of Utah for scientific research,” says physicist Julio Facelli, director of the university’s Center for High Performance Computing. When the so-called “metacluster” supercomputer is assembled by the end of 2003 and tests are performed that...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is once again delaying the shipment of a long-awaited microprocessor chip that is vital to its competition with Intel Corp., Monday's Wall Street Journal reported. The chip, part of a new family that has carried the code name Hammer, was originally expected to be available in personal computers at the end of 2002 or early in the first quarter of this year. In September, however, AMD reset the delivery date to late in the first quarter or early in the second period. Friday, AMD said PCs based on the chip, formally called the Athlon 64,...

Itanium and Opteron contrasted Letter What are the options for Intel? By The Letternan: Saturday 09 November 2002, 10:04 THE COMPARISON SPECS on Itanium 3 and Opteron here look pretty good. This appears to show both processors passing the current fastest server chip by a significant lead. However, for x86 code, Opteron looks like it will hit the market as fast as the fastest x86 processor while Itanium 3 is a joke on x86 code. It is too bad that there are not specs available on Yamhill because I have a very strong suspicion that it was killed, not because...

AMD's Opteron could spur dual-core processor showdownBy Rick Merritt, EE TimesOct 16, 2002 (9:00 AM)URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20021016S0019SAN JOSE, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said its upcoming Opteron microprocessor will feature better integer performance than all other server processors, setting up a possible race with Intel Corp. to move to dual-core server processors as early as next year.AMD's 64-bit X86 processor running at 2 GHz in a 32-bit mode will hit an estimated SPECint base2000 performance rating of 1,202 and a SPECfp base2000 rating of 1,170, said Fred Weber, chief technology officer of AMD's computation products group, at the Microprocessor Forum...

Why the Buzz on Hammer Just Won't QuitJust in case you haven't been paying attention, AMD's upcoming 8th generation processor has been generating a steady buzz of discussion almost since the first of the year.  This has led to an occasional outburst of exasperation from editors at various websites, some of whom have complained the web community in general is too focused upon Hammer.  Hammer is, their argument goes, an unproven product with a distant and uncertain launch date, and should not be focused on so heavily.  It's also been suggested by some that much of the Hammer hype itself...

Big backing for Opteron, if true By Adamson Rust: Tuesday 09 July 2002, 09:27 THE WALL ST JOURNAL could hardly be described as a rumour mongering site so the rumour it mongered yesterday in a story it wrote about Intel's Itanic has to be taken more seriously than, say, any British publication whatsoever. The Wall St Journal has been known to fact check a story so much that the hacks feel they're being given the third degree. Yesterday, a long and worthy piece about whether big corporations will follow up their IA-32 server farms with IA-64 "big tin" terminated with...