Posted on Tuesday, May 13 2008 @ 4:15 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
A few months ago, the American company Advanced Micro Devices -
AMD, as the second biggest manufacturer in the processor market, launched
the new K10 microarchitecture onto the market, in the form of a server
solution codenamed Barcelona. Barcelona is the new Opteron which brings many
novelties in the fields of virtualization, multi-socket scaling, as well as
many improvements in multithread software synchronization. As far as desktop
computers are concerned, the K10 architecture also brings along an entirely
new platform, which should unify all vital system components under a single
brand - Spider.
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