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ThunderX ARM Has Datacenter Muscle
The third 64-bit ARM processor aimed at datacenter workloads has just entered the field now that Cavium Networks, a maker of multicore chips aimed at networking and other embedded ...Full Article
ARM Servers To Get Muscle From Microsoft?
Microsoft is reportedly – and not unexpectedly – developing a variant of the Windows Server operating system that runs on ARM server processors. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft has a ...Full Article
AMD, Canonical Do OpenStack In A Box
The developers behind OpenStack have come a long way in adding fit and finish to successive releases of the cloud controller, but it is still a pain in the ...Full Article
AMD Details “Seattle” ARM Server Chip
The annual Hot Chips conference is underway this week in Silicon Valley, and there is not much on the enterprise front on day one. Japanese supercomputer makers NEC and ...Full Article
AMD Accelerates Chip Testing With Flash Storage
Like most large enterprises, chip maker AMD has some big central systems that it uses to run its core business, and on top of that, it has a cluster ...Full Article
Russia Launches ARM Chip Effort To End X86 Dependence
The Russian government is reportedly preparing to say "nyet" to American-made microprocessors, planning instead to replace Intel and AMD chips with a homegrown CPU based on an alternative architecture ...Full Article
AMD Reorganizes, SeaMicro Founder Takes A Break
Chip and server maker AMD has reorganized its operations, setting the stage for a key executive who was brought in to run the company's business units to one day ...Full Article
Cavium ThunderX ARM Chip Rumbles Into Hyperscale
It is not a coincidence that Cavium, a maker of MIPS processors aimed at networking equipment and other embedded uses chose the Computex 2014 conference in Taipei, Taiwan to ...Full Article
Firing Up 75K VMs On OpenStack In An Afternoon
Running distributed applications on cloud computing capacity means, in theory, that IT shops never have to do capacity planning again. For large enough aggregations of lines of business inside ...Full Article
AMD To Unify X86, ARM Systems With SkyBridge
Chip maker AMD wants the world to know that it is not just dabbling in ARM processors, but rather intends to make ARM chips peers to its X86 products. ...Full Article
