Tag archive: Istanbul

Intel may have been the first chipmaker to introduce a six-core processor with the Xeon 7400 series, but it won’t be for long. AMD played catch-up on Wednesday by unveiling its new Opteron processors for servers, which will jump from four cores to six while retaining compatibility with the old socket 1207 platform. The company demonstrated the new processors earlier this week. The so-called Istanbul uses the same 45nm processor as… Read More

Chipmaker AMD has formally rolled out its new 45nm Quad-Core Opteron processors. Dubbed “Shanghai” and aimed at the high performance workstation and server market, the new CPUs are designed to offer advanced virtualization capabilities—so one processor can, in effect, host several systems, potentially running different operating systems—and more efficient operation: according to AMD, the new chips offer up to 35… Read More

Throughout the world, it's generally well-known that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is the founder of the modern republic of Turkey; it's not so generally well-known that insulting Atatürk is a crime in the modern republic of Turkey. Tuesday, Turk Telecom, the nations largest fixed-line communications provider, blocked access to Google's video sharing site YouTube following a court ruling deeming a video available on the… Read More

Bill Gates announced during a keynote address this yesterday, the name for Microsoft's integrated communications client, Microsoft Office Communicator 2005, formerly code-named “Istanbul,” and announced timing for its delivery. Microsoft also announced updates to the award-winning Microsoft Office Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005. These include a service pack (SP) and public instant-messaging (IM)… Read More