AMD delivers Opteron SE
Socket to 'em
AMD unleashed two brand new 2-socket and another two 8-socket servers, as its speediest quad core server chips ever released.
The 8-socket servers have been branded Opteron SE and include the fast clocking 2.4GHz 8358 SE as well as the 2.5GHz 8360 SE.
In the two-socket range, AMD has pulled the 2.4GHz quad-core Opteron 2358 SE as well as the shiny new 2.5GHz 2360 SE out of its hat, a move which finally puts the company back in the running after its disastrous delayed release last year.
Having been due to launch in September, AMDs B3-revision chips only actually came on the market in March, a move which damaged the company’s street cred significantly.
But things seem to be chugging along nicely now, with the company noting that its new products are benchmarking rather well floating point performance wise.
The outfit also released three new processors for single socket servers earlier this month (Budapest), including the 2.1GHz Opteron 1352, the 2.2GHz 1354 and the 2.3GHz 1356. µ
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Greens Back BABY!!!!
Here its again... a True Hemi Cuda with amd pumpin the displacement....Shorty do what u wanna do...
Hit the gass floorrr cause blues running out the dooorrrr
AMD who?
Seriously. We might need IBM to re-enter the mid-range server CPU fray.When AMD decided to take on the strongest CPU maker AND the strongest GFX Card maker and lay people off and not have a CTO, is they day they were no longer relevant.
Its sad to see AMD flopping around like fish out of water.
You routinely see Dells and Fry's homebuilts and Supermicro junk beat Sun/AMD super-expensive-servers on the SPEC.org CPU2006.
Power Ratings
Rather odd that a company that is all about performance per Watt makes no mention of power (there is nothing on the AMD site on the original press release either!).Rather odd omission? (If they have 'delivered' them, are they not capable of mentioing the power?)
Mick Russom, you are an idiot
I forget who is famous for the quote, and I don't remember the exact wording, but it says something to the effect of,"The crowd is almost always badly wrong."Generally, following the crowd is a bad idea, because even when they choose the right thing, it's generally for the wrong reason.
We should get out of Iraq because of 1,000,000 dead Iraqis instead of about 10,000 dead Americans. We should kick Bush out of office because his policies are harmful rather than the idea that "he's an idiot"(he is far from being idiot, he is very articulate in his reasoning despite the fact that I don't agree with him). And lastly, AMD will make a comeback because Intel isn't profitable unless reasons to upgrade still exist.
That last one is a little more complicated, basically with no competition, people have less of a desire to upgrade. In music, most people "only listen to what they've listened to," and most people won't attend a movie unless someone's told them about it first. In the microprocessor situation's case, most people won't upgrade unless they've seen a better product than theirs, and they won't go to the PC aisle unless they think they'll be impressed.