AMD’s move three years ago to rely on ARM for server chips is turning out to be a big mistake. The company is putting its faith back in x86 chips as it seeks a reboot in servers, a market in which the ...

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The first set of comprehensive benchmarks on serious ARM server hardware are in -- and they're impressive. While the Cortex-A9 isn't suitable for every workload, it challenges Intel in some ...

The idea of ARM processors being used in datacenter servers has been kicking around more most of the decade. The low-power architecture dominates the mobile world of smartphones and tablets as well as ...

Storied rivals Intel and AMD have formed an industry group dedicated to "[shaping] the future of the world's most widely used computing architecture." The two companies announced the x86 advisory ...

IBM has taken the wraps off the first servers that are powered by its monstrously powerful Power8 CPUs. With more than 4 billion transistors, packed into a stupidly large 650-square-millimeter die ...

When Curt Schumacher began working at the Chicago Board Options Exchange nearly a quarter century ago, the question of what hardware platforms to use to support the business was relatively simple.

Things just a lot more interesting in the x86 server market. AMD has announced a plan to license the design of its top-of-the-line server processor to a newly formed Chinese company, creating a ...

Thanks to a licensing deal with AMD and a complex joint-venture arrangement, the Chinese chip producer Chengdu Haiguang IC Design Co. (Hygon) is now producing x86-based server processors that are ...

Shipments of servers powered by x86 processors will not grow as fast as previously forecast, but x86 will remain the dominant chip design, IDC said in a report Tuesday. The market researcher has ...

Software company SAP disrupted the database and application markets with the first release of Hana in 2010. Five years later, IBM and SAP disrupted the market again by introducing the database ...

IBM on Tuesday used the CeBIT trade show in Germany to unveil its new eX5 line of servers which allows memory to scale to up to four times that of existing servers, said Roland Hagan, vice president ...