In a bit of interesting but perhaps disheartening news, photos of the new socket planned for AMD's DDR2-supporting Opteron are available here. You might notice at first that it looks familiar - but ...

The chip maker Wednesday introduced the Opteron X-Series, a new family of low-power server processors designed for scale-out server architectures. The Opteron X-Series, codenamed "Kyoto," features two ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Opteron: It sounds like one of Godzilla’s mechanical foes, but it’s actually Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s name for its next-generation 64-bit processor, formerly code-named ...

AMD, displaying a rare breed of initiative for a chip manufacturer has opened up the hardware specifications for its Opteron server processor, enabling other chipmakers to design co-processors that ...

Even high quality parts have issues from time to time, and an issue between Antec PSUs and Tyan dual Opteron motherboards has cropped up. The Thunder K8S Pro, K8SD Pro, K8W and K8WE, based of the AMD ...

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Advanced Micro Devices is ready to ramp the next iteration of its new server product line with the launch of the Opteron 4000 series on Wednesday. Formerly code-named Lisbon, the Opteron 4000 ...

At Opteron’s two-year anniversary gathering in New York on April 21, 2005, AMD rolled out its first dual-core Opteron CPU. Not only do the new chips turn dual-processor workstations and servers into ...

Here's why you should care about the difference between Intel and AMD bus architectures I should be writing about Quad-Core Opteron, which was formally launched on Monday, but I feel the need to take ...