AMD at Computex 2005

Unlike previous years, this Computex showed no signs of an Intel-dominated market. In fact, what we've heard from all manufacturers is that AMD has been doing exceptionally well in the market. Intel continues to hold on to the majority of the market, but AMD platforms have been increasing in demand, and in many markets, they are outpacing Intel's solutions.

Computex marked the official launch of the Athlon 64 X2 processor, but of course, we've all been very familiar with those processors for a while now. With dual core desktop processors being yesterday's news, the most impressive showing from AMD happened to center around servers.

There were a number of two-, four- and eight-socket Opteron servers on display at AMD's booth.


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  • Dmitheon - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - link

    G70 behind closed door? Boo!
  • Imaginer - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - link

    But with Iwill's dual SFF, no RAMDisk for you unless one is made with PCI-E slots in mind.
  • Googer - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - link

    ATI's GPU accelarated VIDEO playback, now that is something to get excited about. So is iWILL's new SFF dual sokcket, dual core, Dual HTT, and DUAL GPU SLI.
  • Googer - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - link

    #1 SSD is not a new technology, so there is really nothing to be exicted about. If you wan't one you can go out and buy one here and now, then have it installed then next day after you get it from UPS.
  • AnnihilatorX - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - link

    #1 Solid state HDD s are not impressive at all. They are simple technology and simple to implement. It's just that the memory chips are expensive and data densit not high enough so they are so rare and considered a premium thing to get hold with.
  • avijay - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - link

    Interesting to see more things about server implementations.
  • Brian23 - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - link

    None of that was as impressive as the solid state hard drive.

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