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Chief Processor Architect Exits AMD
Jim Keller, former chief architect of microprocessor cores at AMD, left the chip company for the second time last week to pursue other opportunities. Keller was in charge of ...Full Article
Hardware: A Building Block for IoT Security
For all its promise, the Internet of Things packs a lot of fears. Most recently, of course, two hackers completely immobilized a Jeep Cherokee as a driver headed down ...Full Article
ThunderX ARM Has Datacenter Muscle
The third 64-bit ARM processor aimed at datacenter workloads has just entered the field now that Cavium Networks, a maker of multicore chips aimed at networking and other embedded ...Full Article
ARM Servers To Get Muscle From Microsoft?
Microsoft is reportedly – and not unexpectedly – developing a variant of the Windows Server operating system that runs on ARM server processors. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft has a ...Full Article
AMD, Canonical Do OpenStack In A Box
The developers behind OpenStack have come a long way in adding fit and finish to successive releases of the cloud controller, but it is still a pain in the ...Full Article
AMD Details “Seattle” ARM Server Chip
The annual Hot Chips conference is underway this week in Silicon Valley, and there is not much on the enterprise front on day one. Japanese supercomputer makers NEC and ...Full Article
AMD Accelerates Chip Testing With Flash Storage
Like most large enterprises, chip maker AMD has some big central systems that it uses to run its core business, and on top of that, it has a cluster ...Full Article
Russia Launches ARM Chip Effort To End X86 Dependence
The Russian government is reportedly preparing to say "nyet" to American-made microprocessors, planning instead to replace Intel and AMD chips with a homegrown CPU based on an alternative architecture ...Full Article
AMD Reorganizes, SeaMicro Founder Takes A Break
Chip and server maker AMD has reorganized its operations, setting the stage for a key executive who was brought in to run the company's business units to one day ...Full Article
Cavium ThunderX ARM Chip Rumbles Into Hyperscale
It is not a coincidence that Cavium, a maker of MIPS processors aimed at networking equipment and other embedded uses chose the Computex 2014 conference in Taipei, Taiwan to ...Full Article