News

AMD to Deliver Low-Power Opterons in 2004

AMD plans to offer what it calls mid- and low-power AMD Opteron processors in 2004, the company announced this week.

The 64-bit Opteron processors, which differ from Intel's Itanium processor in that they use the x86 instruction set, will be available at 55 watts and 30 watts. They will be offered across the Opteron product line in the 100, 200 and 800 series.

Intel last week began shipping its first low-power, 64-bit Itanium processor, code-named Deerfield, which consumes 62 watts. That processor, which runs at 1 GHz with 1.5 MB of L3 cache, uses about half the power of other current Itanium 2 chips.

AMD began shipping its Opteron processors in April. Microsoft has plans to deliver versions of Windows supporting Opteron in the coming months.

About the Author

Scott Bekker is editor in chief of Redmond Channel Partner magazine.

Featured

  • Broadcom Revamps VMware Partner Program Again

    Broadcom recently announced a significant update regarding its VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) program, coinciding with the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, a key component in Broadcom’s private cloud strategy.

  • Closeup of the new Copilot keyboard key

    Microsoft Updates Copilot To Add Context-Sensitive Agents to Teams, SharePoint

    Microsoft has rolled out a new public preview for collaborative "always on" agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing enhanced, context-aware tools into Teams channels, meetings, SharePoint sites, Planner workstreams and Viva Engage communities.

  • Windows 365 Cloud Apps Now Available for Public Preview

    Microsoft announced this week that Windows 365 Cloud Apps are now available for public preview. This aims to allow IT administrators to stream individual Windows applications from the cloud, removing the need to assign Cloud PCs to every user.

  • Report: Security Initiatives Can't Keep Pace with Cloud, AI Boom

    The increasingly fast adoption of hybrid, multicloud, and AI systems is easily outgrowing existing security measures, according to a recent global survey by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and exposure management firm Tenable.

Most   Popular