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Tilera chips add muscle to x86 servers and free up computing capacity
2013-10-17 00:48:40| InfoWorld: Top News
New Tilera co-processors tuned for Hadoop, video and networking applications can free up the primary CPUs of x86 servers to run other applications. The company's Tile-IQ series of chips will have up to 72 low-power CPU cores, which will bring extra computing muscle to speed up servers, said Bob Doud, director of processor strategy for Tilera. The Tile-IQ series includes the Tilencore-GX chips, which will come with nine, 16, 36 and 72 cores.
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Intels x86 MinnowBoard ships, sets sight on Raspberry Pi
2013-07-31 17:16:30| Extremetech
It seems every hardware manufacturer and their hardware manufacturing grandmothers are getting in on the cheap, tiny, adorably named computer wave that the Raspberry Pi popularized. Now that the Minnowboard is shipping, it's Intel's turn to take aim at the $35 credit card-sized fruit pie computer.
HP, NEC to develop next-generation x86 servers
2013-07-22 13:40:01| InfoWorld: Top News
Hewlett-Packard and Japan's NEC will expand their existing partnership to develop high-end x86-based servers for cloud and Web applications.
Windows RT for x86: How Microsoft could successfully kill off the Desktop
2013-07-17 16:04:15| Extremetech
Back when Microsoft first split Windows 8 in twain, it initially called the two divisions Windows 8 and Windows on ARM (WoA). Outwardly, Microsoft's justification was that it wanted to ensure a smooth and reliable experience for people with WoA tablets. Internally, though, I think that Microsoft was taking the first steps towards killing off the Desktop entirely, on ARM and x86.
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AMD bridges road to ARM with new low-power x86 server chips
2013-05-29 13:51:18| InfoWorld: Top News
Advanced Micro Devices had no plans to release low-power x86 server chips until the release of its ARM-based servers in 2014, but sagging server fortunes have changed the company's direction. The company is introducing two low-power quad-core Opteron server chips called X2150 and X1150, which draw up to 11 watts of power and are targeted at microservers. The chips are based on the Jaguar core, which is already in PC processors and chips to be used in the Xbox and PlayStation 4 game consoles.