Third-quarter numbers from IDC and Gartner analysts show that the server space is growing, not only in terms of revenue but also in shipments. In numbers from both IDC and Gartner, Hewlett Packard ...

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AMD’s move three years ago to rely on ARM for server chips is turning out to be a big mistake. The company is putting its faith back in x86 chips as it seeks a reboot in servers, a market in which the ...

“Our enterprise X-Architecture for x86-based servers and solutions delivers high performance and the highest customer satisfaction in the industry, making us number one in high-end x86 systems,” said ...

The idea of ARM processors being used in datacenter servers has been kicking around more most of the decade. The low-power architecture dominates the mobile world of smartphones and tablets as well as ...

Intel picked the right time to get on the x86 bandwagon. Research firm IDC reported today that Q4 factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew 11.4 percent sequentially and 22 percent year-over ...

Well-known Apple -focused blogger John Gruber recently made a statement that caught a lot of people's attention. Following the launch of the Apple iPad Pro, which uses an Apple-designed A9X processor, ...

Thanks to a licensing deal with AMD and a complex joint-venture arrangement, the Chinese chip producer Chengdu Haiguang IC Design Co. (Hygon) is now producing x86-based server processors that are ...

The first set of comprehensive benchmarks on serious ARM server hardware are in -- and they're impressive. While the Cortex-A9 isn't suitable for every workload, it challenges Intel in some ...

Things just a lot more interesting in the x86 server market. AMD has announced a plan to license the design of its top-of-the-line server processor to a newly formed Chinese company, creating a ...

AMD’s move three years ago to rely on ARM for server chips is turning out to be a big mistake. The company is putting its faith back in x86 chips as it seeks a reboot in servers, a market in which the ...