Avoton
While in San Francisco for AMD’s Ryzen Tech Day, I had a chance to catch up with a good friend by the name of Patrick Kennedy, who runs the tech news website ServeTheHome. We frequently battle STH here at AnandTech to be the first to break news on new server platforms, but it is a friendly rivalry where often we end up picking each other’s brains for information or to bounce ideas off of each other. To that end, I managed to convince Patrick to be a guest on our podcast, to talk about the recent issue with Avoton and Rangeley C2000 CPUs as well as the launch of C3000 and discuss what the upcoming Naples platform can do for AMD. Apologies in advance for...
Semi-Critical Intel Atom C2000 SoC Flaw Discovered, Hardware Fix Required
Last week, Paul Alcorn over at Tom’s Hardware picked up on an interesting statement made by Intel in their Q4 2016 earnings call. The company, whose Data Center...
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48 by Ganesh T S on 8/10/2015Computex 2014: GIGABYTE Server Shows 46x Avoton C2750 Microserver in 2U
For the few server-oriented business units I visited during Computex, a number of them were showing new Avoton oriented rackmount microservers. At GIGABYTE's Server unit, I was shown...
11 by Ian Cutress on 6/12/2014GIGABYTE Server Launches New C2750 Mini-ITX and 2P ATX LGA2011
Despite the C2750 coming to market officially in Q3 2013, we have not seen many products that exploit the possibilities that the new 8-core Silvermont SoC provides. We reviewed...
13 by Ian Cutress on 5/21/2014ASRock Rack C2750D4I Review: A Storage Motherboard with Management
One of the purposes of Intel’s Avoton CPUs is cold storage. ASRock produced the C2750D4I for that need – a mini-ITX motherboard with a 25W eight core CPU, support...
85 by Ian Cutress on 4/29/2014The Next Generation of Micro Server SoCs: ECX-2000 vs Atom 2000
Calxeda has announced its second generation SoC, the ARM Cortex™ A15 based EnergyCore™ ECX-2000. We try to estimate how this new Server SoC compares to the latest Intel Atom...
45 by Johan De Gelas on 10/29/2013