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20070912 Wednesday September 12, 2007

AMD and Intel both announce Quad Core Chips
The race is heating up for the x86 server market as Intel and AMD both rush out to get new quad-core chips into vendor systems. Intel announced Tigerton and Caneland platforms for larger than 2 CPU servers. AMD's announcement was for the long-awaited Barcelona chip in upto 8 CPU servers.

AMD's announcement is here. Related Performance data is here (AMD posted, not Sun Studio)
Intel's announcement is here. Related Performance data is here (Intel posted, not Sun Studio).

Should be an interesting period ahead!
Posted by tatkar ( Sep 12 2007, 01:22:48 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]

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Who Am I?

[Vijay Tatkar]
Vijay Tatkar manages in the Cloud Computing Group at Sun.
Previously, he managed C, C++ compilers and x86/x64, IDE, Optimization and CoolTools engineering in Sun's Developer Tools Division.
Vijay has worked at Sun for 20+ years in engineering and management capacities.
Vijay's life outside work revolves around his family (wife + two loving daughters).
Email:
vijay.tatkar@sun.com

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