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Advanced Micro Devices’ upcoming six-core Phenom II X6 processors for desktops are already showing up in online retail stores prior to the chips’ official launch later this month. Online retailer Provantage is taking orders for AMD’s six-core Phenom II X6 1090T processor, which runs at 3.2GHz and includes 9MB of L3 cache. The chip, listed [...]

Advanced Micro Devices’ upcoming six-core Phenom II X6 processors for desktops are already showing up in online retail stores prior to the chips’ official launch later this month. Online retailer Provantage is taking orders for AMD’s six-core Phenom II X6 1090T processor, which runs at 3.2GHz and includes 9MB of L3 cache. The chip, listed [...]

The arrival of eight and 12-core x86 chips may make per socket software licensing seem like a good deal for users of Microsoft server software. The new multicore technology promises to let them increase chip capacity while theoretically reducing the number of sockets. At this point, Microsoft doesn’t seem particularly worried that its server licensing [...]

The arrival of eight and 12-core x86 chips may make per socket software licensing seem like a good deal for users of Microsoft server software. The new multicore technology promises to let them increase chip capacity while theoretically reducing the number of sockets. At this point, Microsoft doesn’t seem particularly worried that its server licensing [...]

Open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its flagship operating system, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), to take full advantage of the latest spoils from the heated microprocessor battle between Advanced Micro Devices and Intel. RHEL version 5.5, released Wednesday, has been reconfigured for Intel’s just-released eight-core Nehalem-EX and AMD’s almost-as-recently released 12-core “Magny-Cours” [...]

Advanced Micro Devices today released its 12-core chip, doubling the number of cores in the previous generation chip in its Opteron line. One of the key benefits in taking advantage of the performance gains delivered by a chip with a dozen cores may be in reducing software licensing costs. The performance gain of its new [...]

Advanced Micro Devices gained share in worldwide processor shipments at the expense of rival Intel during the fourth quarter of 2009, IDC said in a study released on Tuesday. Worldwide x86 processor demand “achieved all-time record levels for a single quarter,” IDC said in a statement. Microprocessor shipments went up by 31.3 percent in the [...]

Advanced Micro Devices reached profitability for the first time in three years during the fourth quarter of 2009, benefiting from a legal settlement with Intel and a change in its business model, the company said on Thursday. The company reported net income of $1.18 billion during the quarter that ended on Dec. 26, an improvement [...]

No one should be surprised that the big action in the CPU market this year will be in the mobile and low-power processor segments. Rapid growth in the power-saving all-in-one and small-form-factor desktop PC markets, continued strong demand for portable computers, and new usage models (digital photo and video editing, casual gaming, watching high-definition movies [...]

Intel on Thursday reported $2.3 billion in profit for the fourth quarter of 2009, in a strong financial showing driven by an increase in spending on PC and server chips. On a GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) basis, Intel’s net income was up 875 percent compared to the $234 million the company reported in the [...]