AMD introduces low-power Opterons

AMD has added a new class of low-power Opteron processors to its server range. Aimed at the blade server market, the new low-power, 64-bit processors are dubbed with the suffix HE (55 watt) or EE (30 watt) after the equivalent full-power Opteron model. The new processors cover the single-, two- and four-way range: the 146 HE and 140 EE, the 246 HE and 240 EE, and the 846 HE and 840 EE. ...more

The software programmer's best friend

You've bought the dog, you've played with the new pet, now program it with the software development kit... ...more

Alert: Chancellor extends tax relief on IT investment another year

In his budget speech this afternoon, Chancellor Gordon Brown has extended tax relief on IT investment. In his speech Brown said `A total of more than 3 million businesses will now also qualify for 100 per cent allowances for investment in I.T. ...more

Java, the Microsoft way

Microsoft updates Visual J#, a beta version of its Java development tool for .NET. Microsoft's Visual J# . ...more

Intel's 65-nm Cedar Mill CPU to have power consumption of 65W

The power consumption of Intel's 65-nm single-core Cedar Mill processors is likely to be around 65W, down from the around 115W of the current Prescott CPUs, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers who have seen Intel's CPU roadmap. The Cedar Mill is scheduled to be launched in early next year. However, the power consumption of Intel's 65-nm, dual-core Presler CPU, also to be launched in the first quarter of 2005, will still be at the same level as the dual-core Smithfield CPU, at around 130W, the sources said. ...more