WHITE PAPERS
[December 23, 2003]
What can a company do with a terabyte of physical and 256TB of virtual address space? If it's IBM, it can smash through the old 4GB memory limit and give DB2 Universal Database customers virtually unlimited customer-relationship-management, data-warehousing, or online-transaction-processing power -- and one of the easiest transitions in IT history. This AMD report has the details.[December 10, 2003]
You say your boss is still on the fence about the benefits of AMD's Opteron and Athlon 64 processors? This document summarizes both the new-registers-and-programming-modes abilities and the full-speed, max-headroom, money-saving advantages of the company's 64-bit extensions to the comfortably familiar x86 architecture.
[November 12, 2003]
Every PC performance junkie has a different take on how the Athlon 64 3200+ and Athlon 64 FX-51 compare to Intel's top-of-the-line Pentium 4/3.2, but here's the official word from AMD's test labs -- with, just as important, technical and tutorial details for IT managers curious about evaluating the AMD64 processors' performance in both 32- and 64-bit modes.
[August 20, 2003]
The red-carpet premiere is September 23, but the trailers are now playing on your PC screen: We take a break from sober tech specs with your first look at two Windows Media teasers for the Athlon 64 processor -- CPU commercials that take double-barreled aim at blue men and aliens.
TECHNICAL SPECS
[January 13, 2004]
The move from 32- to 64-bit computing includes computers that are built to move. Here's the official word on AMD's three new Mobile Athlon 64 processors -- the 2800+, 3000+, and 3200+ -- ranging from software and chipset compatibility to the differences between the AMD64 solutions for mainstream and desktop-replacement notebooks. [November 18, 2003]
An across-the-board speed boost means it's time to refresh AMD's answers to users' and IT managers' common questions about the Opteron 1- through 8-way server and workstation CPUs. Here's the official word on the new Opteron Model 248 and soon-to-ship Models 148 and 248, from chipset and motherboard support to target markets and 64-bit software availability.
[September 24, 2003]
After answering performance desktop shoppers' prayers, AMD answers their questions: Here's the company's official word on the details of and differences between the two CPUs that bring the 'Hammer' or AMD64 architecture to the desktop PC arena.
CASE STUDIES
[January 21, 2004]
Digital video is rapidly reaching the consumer mainstream, but the job of encoding high-quality home movies to CD-, DVD-, or even e-mail-message size isn't as rapid as it should be. DivXNetworks is changing that with its popular DivX video technology -- and the AMD64 platform is changing DivX, thanks to a pioneering and powerful new 64-bit edition.[November 26, 2003]
If you think the latest games and LAN parties demand a high-performance PC, think about what's required to host a fast-paced game for thousands of online players -- or think about the results of screwing up when your customer is the U.S. Army. Cluster host Super Computer Inc. faces both challenges, and depends on AMD's 64-bit CPUs to meet them.
[October 29, 2003]
Most software rewrites and system upgrades can be described as, 'What a long, strange trip it's been.' But after porting its Advantage Ingres enterprise database to AMD's Opteron, Computer Associates was singing, 'Is that all there is?' -- just two days' work to give CA's customers the benefits of 64-bit processing, without having to jettison their existing 32-bit applications.
