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Information Technology News AMD goes Torro on Torrenza open source socket
Information Technology News AMD goes Torro on Torrenza open source socket | AMD goes Torro on Torrenza open source socket |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Thursday, 21 September 2006 | |
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Page 2 of 2 AMD's vision appears to be an attempt to
emulate the software open source paradigm in a hardware environment by
opening up the AMD architecture to third party developers.Featured Whitepaper
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IBM, Sun, Fujtsu-Siemens and supercomputer maker Cray have all thrown their weight behind the Torrenza project, realizing that socket compatible processors can be the key to improved performance, while allowing them to get a piece of the action. AMD, which is carving out an ever increasing share of the server market can attribute much of its success to Intel, which invented the microprocesssor and then opened up its x86 architecture to third party suppliers. {moscomment} |
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