The arrival of eight and 12-core x86 chips may make per socket software licensing seem like a good deal for users of Microsoft server software. The new multicore technology promises to let them ...

It's hard to remember now, but the original AMD Ryzen processors topped out at "just" 8 cores. The Ryzen 3000 family came along in 2019 with the Ryzen 9 branding and the first sixteen-core desktop ...

IBM unveiled its new System Z processor, Telum, at Hot Chips 33 this week. The new CPU offers a new core design, integrated AI capabilities, and enhanced security. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Core counts for consumer CPUs have been increasing in recent years, but have you looked at what's happening on the ...

Intel has announced the next family of Xeon processors that it plans to ship in the first half of next year. The new parts represent a substantial upgrade over current Xeon chips, with up to 48 cores ...

Quad core is not the magic key to a quantum jump in virtual server density, but that key exists Despite the bait dangled by Intel and AMD -- twice as much server in the same space every two years -- ...

In case you'd forgotten, IBM is still blazing its own trail with regard to silicon. And in terms of speeds and feeds, Big Blue's latest crop of Power chips boasts up to 55 percent faster cores than ...

If memory bandwidth is holding back the performance of some of your applications, and there is something that you can do about it other than to just suffer. You can tune the CPU core to memory ...

There's no question that Intel has held a stranglehold on the enterprise CPU market with its family of Xeon processors. However, that all began to change last year with the introduction of AMD's first ...

So I have a little problem with my server. I have a dual socket dual core server. AMD Opteron 246 CPUs with four 256MB sticks of Registered ECC PC2700 running in NUMA. When the server starts up the ...