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AMD, on Monday, unveiled new six-core server chips built on the 45-nanometer process. Code-named Istanbul, the five new processors will come with clock speeds of up to 2.6GHz with a power consumption... Read more...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered a problem that threatens the efficiency of future processors. The root of the issue is a flaw in the current... Read more...

Intel officially took the wraps off its Nehalem-EX processor this week, which will come with up to eight processing cores. The chip behind the next iteration of Intel's Xeon server line is scheduled... Read more...

Japanese firm Fujitsu has revealed a new processor, touted to be the fastest in the world in terms of raw CPU computations. Named "Venus," the processor can supposedly crunch numbers at a rate of 128... Read more...

A start-up headed by veterans from the computer server industry has come up with some high-powered appliances designed to speed up cloud-based applications. Put together by Schooner Information... Read more...

Intel will be officially announcing the latest Xeon processors--code named "Nehalem EP"--in San Francisco today. The Nehalem architecture comes with improved performance and efficiency, and also... Read more...

Sporting a new, multi-threaded design, Sun Microsystem's 16-core "Rock" server processor is on track to be released in fall of this year. While John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Sun... Read more...

Two teams of U.S. researchers are making significant inroads in the field of nanotechnology, which could have a big impact in the development of future microprocessors and storage devices. By using... Read more...

Intel has announced price cuts of up to 40 percent for its higher-end Core 2 quad-core processors. Also cut are the prices across a range of chips used in both mobile and desktop PCs, including Xeon... Read more...