Hewlett-Packard (HP) is the first major workstation vendor to announce systems that can be ordered with AMD’s monolithic 6-core Opteron 2400-series processors, previously code-named Istanbul. With up to 12 cores, HP’s workstation is an option to Intel Nehalem-based DP workstations.

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AMD has released the mysterious Phenom II X4 42 Black Edition TWKR processor, which is, according to the company, the most capable processor desktop CPU offered by the company. In fact, the CPU is so special and rare that you can’t buy it. If you are a famous overclocker you are almost certain to get a free sample and you may have a chance to get your hands on it if you say ‘please, please’ and promise to spend all your time on overclocking it. Otherwise, your best bet may be Ebay – and it will be expensive as there are less than 100 chips available.

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A man from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has praised the iPhone 3G S to the heavens and Apple for being upfront about battery life.

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Gateway has introduced a high-definition netbook with an 11.6-inch display. The LT3100 - which weighs just 3.14 pounds - features an AMD Athlon 64 L110 processor, a full-size keyboard, multi-gesture touchpad and a ATI Radeon X1270 GPU.

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IBM has managed to retain the No. 1 spot on the Top500 list of supercomputers with its 1.105 petaflop/s Roadrunner system. The Roadrunner, which is currently housed at the DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), is reportedly the first computer to shatter the formidable petaflop/s Linpack barrier.

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