September 18, 2007 - 04:31 PM
Last week AMD finally, after months of postponing, introduced its quad core Opteron processors, better known by their codename Barcelona. However, AMD is not the only one with a new product; on the first day of the 2007 Fall IDF, Intel will be unveiling its second generation quad core Xeon server processors, which so far has been referred to as Harpertown. Both manufa...
January 19, 2013 - 03:34 AM
At the Open Compute Summit, Intel has shared an interesting perspective on future servers. In the presentation, the chip manufacturer outlined a concept where the important parts of a server were no longer integrated into a single motherboard. Instead, key components such as the network and storage controllers receive their own PCB. To ensure all components interact w...
December 14, 2012 - 03:24 AM
IBM has announced a breakthrough in the field of data transport, called 'silicon nanophotonics'. Normally, chips use electrical signals, but IBM is working on chips that communicate with each other by means of light pulses through glass fibre wires. The manufacturer has been able to add several optical components, each smaller than 100 nm, together on a single die, an...
