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AMD targets hosting providers with new Opteron chip

Chip maker AMD earlier this week launched its Opteron 3200 Series of processors that the company says is targeted at the cloud server market. According to AMD ( NYSE: AMD ), the three new chips are

AMD unveils Shanghai server chip

Beleaguered Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has unveiled its next Opteron quad-core processor--code named Shanghai--yesterday. The 45nm Shanghai was released ahead of time , while the ill-fated Barcelona

Department of Energy’s supercomputer breaks petraflop barrier

In a historical first, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supercomputer has broken through the landmark barrier of one petaflop - or one quadrillion floating point operations per second. The feat was