Items tagged with Maranello

by Joel Hruska - Mon, Mar 29, 2010

AMD's Takes The Fight To Intel With Renewed Server Offensive

AMD launched its new Maranello server platform and accompanying 8-12 core Magny-Cours processors today. The new products are two prongs of a three-pronged offensive AMD has launched at its rival. Both Magny-Cours and Maranello are evolutionary products—we'll have to wait for Bulldozer to really shake things up—but the... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Mon, Mar 08, 2010

AMD Asks What You'd Do With 48 Cores; Offers Chance To Win Some

We've already covered AMD's upcoming Magny-Cours processor and associated Maranello server platform in some detail, but AMD is apparently wanting to build some buzz around its new hardware. Over at his AMD blog, AMD's director of product marketing John Fruehe recently spilled the beans on a 48-core contest. The... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Tue, Feb 23, 2010

AMD Now Shipping 8, 12-core Processors To Early Customers, OEMs

In a blog post yesterday, AMD's director of product marketing John Fruehe announced that the company is now shipping its eight and 12-core "Magny-Cours" processors to OEMs and select manufacturers. Magny-Cours, you may recall, is AMD's next-generation server CPU and consists of two Istanbul cores side-by-side on the... Read more...