Both chip vendors have spewed forth a blizzard of announcements, though no actual quad-core microprocessors have yet shipped. Intel disclosed at its late-September developer forum that it's giving its ...

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After significant delays caused by a design bug, AMD is now shipping quad-core "Barcelona" Opteron processors in volume. Barcelona processors were delayed back in December of last year because of an ...

Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices introduces energy-efficient quad-core Opteron processors "designed to help data center managers" focused on power consumption and virtualization. Brooke Crothers ...

The Socket F Opteron processors, which AMD had previously signaled would be launched during LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week, are the first for AMD to add virtualization acceleration and DDR2 ...

With the launch of its latest quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Shanghai, on Thursday, Advanced Micro Devices is looking to rebuild confidence among customers after problems with its Barcelona ...

TL;DR: AMD's next-generation Zen 6 processors feature an evolved core architecture with up to 24 cores and 48 threads, enhanced cache up to 48MB per CCD, dual integrated memory controllers, and ...

Intel versus AMD used to feel like an easy call, but building a PC nowadays means looking past old assumptions and comparing what each brand does best.

Computex 2025 was light on major launches from AMD, Intel and Nvidia, so we welcomed news about Threadripper 9000, which uses their latest Zen 5 to deliver heaps of grunt. Today, we are reviewing the ...