AMD just announced another achievement in processor performance. The Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based HP ProLiant DL585 G5 has achieved top spot on the VMware VMmark virtualization benchmark for x86. This latest result is further proof that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors provide a high-performance virtualization solution that allows data center managers to make large-scale virtualization deployments and do so at an attractive price point.

“AMD has an extensive track record of helping enterprises face demanding challenges by enabling flexible, virtualized systems that address major issues including server consolidation, business continuity and disaster recovery,” said Patrick Patla, general manager, Server and Workstation Business, AMD. “AMD’s latest benchmark result underscores the fact that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are more than just four cores and provide innovations such as AMD Virtualization with Rapid Virtualization Indexing to help deliver an ideal platform for addressing real-world data center needs.

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AMD launches a press conference on Aug. 15 titled “AMD: Computing Innovations and Performance Where It Counts (and Looking Beyond the Boasts)” as a counter-measure for Intel’s IDF (Intel Developer Forum) scheduled to start the following week. It detailed AMD’s Product Momentum Recap, and “Beyond the Boasts” presentation in which AMD elaborated on how Intel rips-off their ideas only to present them as their own.

“AMD is always skating to where the puck will be, to borrow a phrase from Wayne Gretzky. Nine years ago we saw that efficient processor architecture was what customers needed, and we led the industry there. Now Intel is finally arriving to the architecture game late, and we’ve moved on to delivering a truly superior balanced platform.” said Leslie Sobon, AMD Vice President of Computing Solutions and Platform Product Marketing

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AMD revealed its power and cost-efficient Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 2356 and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 8356 now hold the top x86 web performance records for both 2P and 4P servers, as measured by the SPECweb2005 benchmark. Demonstrating its superior ability to handle the strenuous and increasing demands placed on today’s high-traffic Web-based businesses, AMD today announced that the power- and cost-efficient Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 2356 and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 8356 now hold the top x86 web performance records for both 2P and 4P servers, as measured by the SPECweb2005 benchmark. These records demonstrate that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors deliver the ideal platform for dynamic web-based businesses to help scale with peak loads, improve server utilization, minimize data center power consumption and deliver next generation Web 2.0 infrastructure.

“Web-based businesses, including hosted services for customers or internally facing business critical functions like CRM environments over a corporate intranet, often require more peak performance and scalability to handle heavy user traffic while balancing cost and power concerns,” said Patrick Patla, general manager, Server and Workstation Business, AMD. “These benchmark results are the latest evidence of the clear value that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors offer an Internet business ? or any data center that requires the ultimate in performance, reliability and power efficiency.”

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Toshiba has revealed a high-performance stream processor integrating four Synergistic Processing Element (SPE) cores derived from the “Cell Broadband Engine”, the Toshiba SpursEngine SE1000. Toshiba SpursEngine is a co-processor with a clock frequency of 1.5GHz, integrates a hardware codec for Full HD encoding and decoding of MPEG-2 and H.264 streams with four SPEs. With low power consumption range of 10W to 20W, the design of this powerful co-processor is dedicated to bringing the advanced capabilities of the Cell/B.E. to consumer electronics, particularly video processing in digital consumer products.
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With Intel’s roadmap of upcoming multi-core processors, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) has also planned to release its B3 stepping quad-core Phenom 9050 series CPUs including 9850, 9750, 9650, 9550 and 9150 within the next 1-2 weeks. The top-end 9850 will only reach a core frequency of 2.5GHz, instead of the original goal of 2.6GHz, however. AMD is also planning to launch triple-core Phenom 8750, 8650 and 8450 CPUs with power consumption of 65W in late April. Prior to that, the company will launch the Athlon 64 X2 5800+ to fill the gap in the mainstream market, noted the sources. For the dual-core CPU market, AMD will launch the Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Black Edition and 4600+ by the end of March and will follow with Phenom-based Athlon 6250 and 6050 CPUs by the end of the second quarter.
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Intel has officially announced the release of two underdevelopment chipset, the Silverthorn as Atom, and Menlow as Centrino Atom. Intel Atom measures less than 25 mm², making it Intel’s smallest and lowest power processor yet. Up to 11 Intel Atom processor die — the tiny slivers of silicon packed with 47 million transistors each — would fit in an area the size of an American penny. These new chips will be manufactured on Intel’s industry-leading 45nm process with hi-k metal gate technology. The chips have a thermal design power (TDP) specification in 0.6-2.5 watt range and scale to 1.8GHz speeds depending on customer need. By comparison, today’s mainstream mobile Core 2 Duo processors have a TDP in the 35-watt range.
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Intel has boosted the desktop PC performance to a new level by combining two Intel Quad core processors for a total of eight processing engines and a choice of multi-card graphics solutions from either ATI or NVIDIA, the Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform. The Intel Desktop Board D5400XS, when paired with two Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 processors, forms the foundation of the Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform. Hardcore gamers will welcome the opportunity to enjoy multiple simultaneous graphics card solutions featuring either NVIDIA SLI* or ATI Crossfire* for today’s latest graphics-intensive titles. And the performance of eight processing cores is especially welcomed by the 3-D animators, digital audio artists and high-definition video editors behind the coolest games here at the Game Developers Conference.

“For the team creating world-class games here at id, time is one of our most valuable assets,” said Robert A. Duffy, Programming Director, id Software. ?Having eight powerful Intel cores in a single machine helps our team create and test our latest titles at record speed. We have seen one of our most time-consuming asset generation processes cut from over 4 hours to under 20 minutes by utilizing all eight cores and threading the generation code. Long term this translates to better games on the market faster than previously possible.”

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced its launch of Imageon solution which enable the playback of media-rich applicatoins such as mobile TV, games and high-fidelity audio on mobile phones and handheld devices, the AMD Imageon D160 mobile TV solution. It is a complete hardware + software package that enable mobile devices to receive over-the-air (OTA) broadcast TV signals transmitted in the DVB-T and DVB-H standards. Powered by Imageon M210 audio processor which is designed to enable a high-definition, fully integrated audio subsystem that capable of delivering more than 100 hours of music playback in airplane mode. Together with Imageon A250 application processor, it creates the best AMD latest multimedia technology for video recording and playback, photo imaging, and high-resolution displays, offering performance yet maintaing long system battery life.

The firm also introduced unique next-generation graphics cores that uses AMD’s technologies to provide an immersive graphics platform from PCs to game consoles such as the Microsoft Xbox 360.
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