Big Blue will soon offer more energy-efficient dual-processor servers using new AMD and Intel chips in Australia.
Intel will introduce its new "Tulsa" Xeon chip for high-end x86 servers on Tuesday in the US, the latest of several moves to reclaim turf lost to rival Advanced Micro Devices.
The chip-maker has launched its new line of quad-core Xeon products for the multiprocessor server market.
Chip maker Intel is prepararing to rollout a slew of new 45-nanometre Penryn processors in the first year, according to industry reports.
Faced with an urgent need to cut costs, Advanced Micro Devices laid off 430 workers last week as it looks to get back on track.
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Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM and others will announce on Monday in the US the first servers to use Intel Xeon processors augmented with 64-bit extensions, a technology with major long-term implications.
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With the Athlon 64, Windows users get their own 64-bit processor. The chip delivers excellent 32-bit performance today, along with the promise of 64-bit computing tomorrow.
The new Athlon XP 3200+ processor is due in the second quarter of the year, setting up a new battle with the Pentium 4.
AMD will launch its long-awaited 64-bit Opteron server chip in April, and will rely on new 'Barton' desktop processors to compete against Intel for now.
Advanced Micro Devices has beefed up its desktop processor line with the new Athlon XP 3000+ processor.
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