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System Center and Intel

March 22, 2007

I have been kind of surprised by the lack of announcements this year before MMS, it seems like there was a flood of info last year, but this sounds very exciting! This morning Intel is announcing comprehensive support for System Center . This support encompasses SMS 2003 R2, Operations Manager, and System Center Essentials. We will be announcing at MMS further support in SCCM 2007. This is extremely exciting news, it is everything from an add-on to SMS to Management Packs to delivery of System Center...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , ,

AMD Still Trailing Intel in Q3 of 2007

October 05, 2006

I think it is good for the market to see the pendulum swing back-and-forth. It was over AMD’s side for about 3 years, and now it is definetly on the Intel side and still on an upward swing. VR-Zone has made a nice table for those of us who are more visually queued. AMD is planning on releasing a new 65nm die in Q3 of 2007, this will be a quad core die, while the Intel processor will be a using a 2 dual core die. But the higher clock speed, faster bus, and larger cache on the Intel offering...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: ,

NVIDIA Being Purchaed by Intel?

October 05, 2006

How often do these “rumors” turn out to be false? This makes sense after ATI was bought by AMD. Original source. NVIDIA shares riding high on fresh acquisition rumors Posted Oct 4th 2006 8:15PM by Paul Miller Filed under: Desktops , Gaming , Peripherals Rumors were flying today around Wall Street trading desks of a pending Intel buyout of NVIDIA , which helped the graphics company to a hefty raise in shares, but didn't do much to validate the whisperings that have been going around ever...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: ,

Intel Quad Core Processors in Novemeber 80 cores by 2012

September 27, 2006

Intel confirmed that quad core processors will hit the shelves in November of this year for their Xeon lineup and Extreme processors. They will release the main stream desktop quad processor in Q1 of 07 along with a lower power consumption Xeon 5300. Next year they plan to introduce the first notebook motherboard that makes use of flash memory and 802.11n, code named Santa Rosa. They also discussed plans to have an 80 – that’s eighty core CPU ready in five years, which I am assuming mean...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: ,