HP launched nine quad-core servers, including pedestal, rack-mount and blade models. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company said the new products promise up to a 50 percent performance gain compared with ...

IBM on Monday launched its latest Power7 processor, which adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost the performance of servers requiring high up time. The Power7 chip has up to ...

New design clobbers Intel and AMD in core and thread count, but the proof will be in the independent benchmarks. Marvell got into the Arm server business with the 2018 acquisition of Cavium, maker of ...

Ampere – the semiconductor startup founded by former Intel executive Renee James and not to be confused with the new line of Nvidia cards – just introduced a 128-core, Arm-based server processor to ...

Microsoft is set to start charging businesses $1.50 per CPU core each month for a new way to install security updates on Windows Server 2025. This change will affect anyone running servers outside of ...

Adding spark to its Sun Fire line on servers, Sun Microsystems Inc. is expected to announced its first x86-based quad-core systems Tuesday. The Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 rack-mount servers are ...

China will take the wraps off its latest 8-core Godson processor early next year to show its chip-making ability compared to Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and ARM. Loongson Technology, partly funded ...

A few weeks ago, Apple launched the ARM-based M1. The new chip has set performance-per-watt efficiency records and proven that it is capable of punching well above its weight class. Now, there are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a microprocessor expert analyzing new semiconductor developments. AMD today announced the EPYC 7003 family of server ...

IBM has quietly beefed up its dual-processor server line with new low-wattage processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, part of the company's effort to capitalize on the industry's growing ...

The Power7 chip can run 32 tasks simultaneously -- quadruple the number of cores on the older Power6 chip -- and can also save more energy IBM on Monday launched its latest Power7 processor, which ...