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What Next for Intel Server Chips?

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What Next for Intel Server Chips?

Intel has two additions to its supercomputing lines-- Itanium 9300 successor 9500-series (aka Poulson) processor and the first Xeon Phi coprocessors. 

The 9500-series processor carries Intel Itanium Architecture (IA64 ISA) and packs 3.1 billion transistor into a 32nm die. It also doubles core count (8 from 4), carries up to 54MP of on-die memory and enables up to 2TB of low-voltage DIMMs in a 4-socket configuration. 

Clock speeds are up-- from 1.73GHz and 130W power level to 2.53GHz at 170W. 

Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) safeguards also see improvements, with features such as such as Instruction Replay, End-to-End Error Detection and Cache Safe. 

Meanwhile the Xeon Phi is a result from the "Knights Corner" part of the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) project. Offering over 1 teraflop of peak double-precision performance, it is ideal for high performance computing (such as financial and life sciences simulation) workloads, complementing the current Xeon E5 processors.

Intel builds the Xeon Phi chips with its 22nm process and uses the 3D Tri-Gate transistors first seen in Ivy Bridge chips.  Read more...

Belt Tightening Works for Cisco

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Belt Tightening Works for Cisco

Cost cutting measures appear to work for Cisco-- despite a drop in European switch and router sales, fiscal Q1 2013 (ending October 27 2012) sales reach $11.9 billion with 5.5% Y-o-Y growth. 

Net income  grows by 17.7% Y-o-Y to $2.09bn.

When it comes to EMEA Cisco revenues are flat at $2.84bn as the current economic slump continues apace. Meanwhile overall orders across the region drop by -10%. 

Services are making an increasingly larger slice of the Cisco pie-- $2.5bn with 11.9% growth. On the other hand product revenues grow by 3.9% Y-o-Y to reach Read more...

Reuters: AMD Explores "Options"

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Reuters: AMD Explores

According to Reuters AMD hired the services of the JPMorgan bank to "explore options"-- options such as the sale of patents and IP, if not actually selling the company.

In reply to Reuters AMD says "the strategy the company is currently pursuing to drive long-term growth by leveraging AMD's highly-differentiated technology assets is the right approach to enhance shareholder value. AMD is not actively pursuing a sale of the company or significant assets at this time."

What is certain is AMD has financial troubles. The company's value is falling Read more...

Windows Boss Leaves Microsoft

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Windows Boss Leaves Microsoft

In a sudden announcement Windows unit president Steven Sinofsky leaves Microsoft-- barely a month after the Windows 8 and Surface launches.

Sinofsky is a Microsoft veteran, having joined the company as a software design engineer in July 1989. He led Windows development since 2006, following a long stint at the Office unit.

Taking over his duties are Windows 7 and 8 head of UX Juli Larson-Green and Windows CFO Tami Reller.

In a farewell letter to employees, Sinofsky writes "I have decided it is time for me to take a step back from my responsibilities at Microsoft. I’ve always advocated using the break between product cycles as an opportunity to reflect and to look ahead, and that applies to me too."

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HP Bets on Linux

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HP Bets on Linux

A new member joins the hallowed ranks of Platinum Linux Foundation Membership-- HP, who now pays an annual investment worth all of $500000 to the nonprofit organisation.

As you might guess Platinum status is not for everyone, even within the free Linux operating system. Alongside HP, only Fujitsu, IBM, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm and Samsung have such elevated level.  

Platinum status gives HP a seat on the Linux Foundation board of directors, and allows the company to become more directly involved in Linux advocacy activities. No mention is given whether t Read more...

The MIPS Technologies Fire Sale

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The MIPS Technologies Fire Sale

The past few days have been all about the sales for MIPS Technologies-- the RISC pioneer sells off part of its 580-strong patent portfolio to Allied Security Trust (AST) before getting acquired by Imagination Technologies. 

AST is a consortium made up of the likes of ARM, HP, Motorola, IBM, RIM, Oracle and Philips. ARM contributes $167.5 million of the $350m cash price for MIPS portfolio, one containing valuable patents covering microprocessors, system-on-chip and other related technologies. 

The remaining 82 MIPS patents are "directly relevant and Read more...

Meg Whitman: HP Tablets for 2013, Smartphones from 2014

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Meg Whitman: HP Tablets for 2013, Smartphones from 2014

HP will not make a smartphone on 2013, Meg Whitman says at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2012-- instead, the company is "more concerned about the pads."

Next year, HP hopes to become a force in tablets-- but not within the consumer market. Instead, the company will concentrate on the (perhaps) more lucrative enterprise market.

"The longer we go without a business-compatible Microsoft solution, the bigger the effort to force the iPad into businesses," Whitman says. She also suggests the Surface is not the most ideal for enterprise, meaning it won't compete with HP offerings such as the recently revealed ElitePad 900.

The HP CEO also says the company will remain committed to staying in the PC business, confirming the first big decision (one involving a 30-day review by a team of 100) taken when she replaced her predecessor, Leo Apotheker. Read more...

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