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Editorial: Intel’s Comeuppance

Some people are enjoying Intel’s recent troubles, saying the company deserved a smackdown. But watch out—Intel could emerge as an even tougher competitor in the future.

The Sun-Fujitsu APL Alliance

Sun and Fujitsu are jointly launching a new family of advanced product line servers based on Fujitsu’s next-generation SPARC64 VI processor design. What does this alliance tell us about the state of SPARC servers and the prospects for non-x64 servers?

AMD Seeks to Unify Servers

AMD announced some of the partners and the timeline associated with the Torrenza platform, which is developing a common interface and socket for server processors.

MRAM: A New Spin on Memory

Freescale has introduced the world’s first commercially available MRAM (magnetic, or magnetoresistive, random-access memory) chip. Is it a harbinger of future memory technology?

Multicore Multiplies the Challenges

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