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Sun Microsystems announced Monday that it will resume selling servers with Intel's Xeon processor, restoring a hardware partnership and extending it to software collaboration.
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Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.
Intel has released three new Xeon chips for four-and eight-processor servers in a move to increase the pressure on Sun Microsystems.
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Although the sale of servers based around Intel's Itanium chips will grow, they will still lag behind IBM and Sun, one research firm says.
In the world of processors, attention seems firmly focused on the fast-paced desktop and mobile markets. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing going on in server-land.
Sun Microsystems announced Monday that it will resume selling servers with Intel's Xeon processor, restoring a hardware partnership and extending it to software collaboration.
Intel has released three new Xeon chips for four-and eight-processor servers in a move to increase the pressure on Sun Microsystems.
Diversity and choice are good things, we are always told. But in the case of processors, diversity may not be the answer.
For raw power Sun Microsystem's Sun Fire X4450 is the gutsiest server we've seen, and at 2RU it's compact considering its specs. However, priced at over AU$27,000, this machine will make a dent in your budget.
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