InternetAMD Looks Ahead to Memory Changes

Socket G3 Memory Extender is planned for future Opterons.

Ready for 2009? You may not yet be thinking of what specs the server you buy in two years will have, but AMD is giving system makers a heads up on some of its plans. Wednesday AMD (Quote) announced Socket G3 Memory Extender (G3MX) for a future Opteron platform. G3MX is designed to let server makers build x86-compatible systems with greater memory capacity and performance than those available today. AMD said it designed G3MX in collaboration with IDT and Inphi, who are planning to sell G3MX components as part of their portfolios of products for the memory industry. "This is a very collaborative effort with our system partners to use industry-standard DIMMs (define) and get the best price performance," Diane Stapley, systems strategy manger for AMD server/workstation, told internetnews.com. Stapley said G3MX will let system makers easily double the amount of memory typically found in today's servers to 32GB and higher. The technology is aimed at the high-performance end of the server market... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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InternetWasting time at work? You're not alone: survey (Reuters)

Reuters - Americans who feel bored and underpaid do work hard -- at surfing the Internet and catching up on gossip, according to a survey that found U.S. workers waste about 20 percent of their working day.