Zen comes to desktops first
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Server follows, then notebook


At the Q and A session after AMD's press conference, company CEO Lisa Su just confirmed that desktop Zen x86 chips are the first products to arrive for consumers. These will be followed by a server lineup, then a notebook lineup.

Red Hat is better investment than the ponies
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Revenue rose 46 percent

The Open Saucy software outfit Red Hat is probably a better investment than putting all your cash on a sure bet with a sheepskin bridle for the 2.30 at Ascot.

Debian dumps 586-class and hybrid 586/686 chips
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Jessie will complete of a modernisation

The Debian project is continuing its cull of older processors and getting rid of support for 586-class and hybrid 586/686 chips.

AMD's Chinese server deal could be x86
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Lisa Su, AMD's CEO confirms

Ever since AMD announced a Chinesejoint joint server venture, people have been asking around to get a bit more details. Now AMD's CEO has confirmed the technology involved is both x86 and ARM.

AMD to announce Sugon deal
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Joint Venture with China's HPC giant

Our sources are confident that AMD is about to announce a joint venture deal with China-based Sugon company.

Global server sales growing
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New report good news for Taiwan

Worldwide server shipments are on the rise with a spin off effect on motherboards, servers, storage and related network equipment makers.

ARM working with TSMC on 7nm process
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Low power high performance chips

ARM has teamed up with TSMC to develop a 7nm process technology to produce low-power, high-performance chips for next-generation networks and data centres.

Qualcomm works with Red Hat
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Enterprise Linux Server for ARM

Qualcomm wants to port Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux Server for ARM which will allow developers to write applications for Qualcomm's server chips.

Nvidia lifts the lid on Iray Server
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Distributed networks provide high performance renders

Nvidia has just spilt the beans on its Iray Server which is a clever bit of kit which allows distributed networks to pool resources create high-performance renders.

Qualcomm does ARM server deal with Chinese
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Working with the government to build ARM server chips


Qualcomm is setting up a server chipset design and sales unit with a provincial government in China.