Microsoft: No extra licenses needed for multicore chips
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Customers that use the dual-core processors that Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) are expected to begin shipping next year will not need to buy extra licenses for Microsoft Corp.
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Chip power has increased dramatically in the last few years, thanks to new multicore processors from Intel, AMD and other chip makers. The problem is, software developers who understand how to utilize the new hardware are in short supply.
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Microsoft will support only x86 processors with 64-bit extensions when it releases a special version of Windows Server for high-performance computing next year, leaving support for Intel&#39;s Itanium 2 chip to a later, unspecified date.
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AMD&#39;s new dual-core Opteron chip is designed mainly for corporate computing applications, including databases, Web services, and financial transactions.
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In what&#39;s being called a shrewd licensing move, Microsoft last week put its competitors on the defensive and avoided price increases for customers by announcing it would not charge extra fees for server software running on dual-core, processor-based
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Siding with chipmakers, the software giant says it won't charge double for dual-core chips when they come to market next year.
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New high-end dual-core Opterons will power servers.
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The manufacturing technology can result in faster chips without increasing power requirements, say the companies. By Darrell Dunn.
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Blog: AMD announces its quad core server chips will ship in August
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You might think that four cores will be twice as good as two cores for all your computing tasks, but PC World's tests of the new chip tell a different story.
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An upcoming Microsoft (MSFT:Nasdaq - news - research) software product for clustered servers won&#39;t run on Intel&#39;s (INTC:Nasdaq - news - research) high-end Itanium 2 chip, according to a report first published on News.
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Microsoft's decision to push back a 64-bit Windows will not hurt chip sales, company says.
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Microsoft announced that it will continue its per-processor licensing model with the introduction of dual-core and multicore processors.
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Get with our 2014 program IDF Once in multi-core processor denial, Intel has well and truly moved past the anxiety that follows abandoning the "boost GHz at all costs" mentality that served the company well for so long. So firm is Intel's new multi-core embrace, that it now even accepts the idea that non-Intel architecture products may soon find a place on its own chips â at least in theory.â¦
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Microsoftâs upcoming Windows for clustered computers operating system will not support Intelâs powerful Intanium 2 chipset according to News.
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The MSI motherboard we tested is actually the very first working sample of the K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI; in fact, as of right now there are only 4 working nForce4 SLI samples at MSI in Taiwan, two of which happen to be in my hotel room.
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Blog: Why 80 cores? There's actually nothing magic about the number.