Two more companies today signed up to the AMD standards camp, with Zeus, the Internet server OS, tipping up to write 64-bit extensions for Opteron, and VIA enlisting for the HyperTransport protocol brigade.
OK, so Zeus is a bit niche (granted it's a successful player in a bloody big segment), but it is all grist to AMD's 64-bit mill. The more supporters the more credible AMD will be as a server system supplier, as opposed to a chip designer.
VIA has already gone on the record in its support for AMD Opteron. Now it's gone a step further in becoming a member of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium.
Granted HyperTransport isn't restricted to x86-64 (and isn't it 39-bit anyway?), but this I/O bottleneck breaking is a key component of AMD's server CPU design.
News source: The Reg
OK, so Zeus is a bit niche (granted it's a successful player in a bloody big segment), but it is all grist to AMD's 64-bit mill. The more supporters the more credible AMD will be as a server system supplier, as opposed to a chip designer.
VIA has already gone on the record in its support for AMD Opteron. Now it's gone a step further in becoming a member of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium.
Granted HyperTransport isn't restricted to x86-64 (and isn't it 39-bit anyway?), but this I/O bottleneck breaking is a key component of AMD's server CPU design.
News source: The Reg
Today MSN announced it had signed up for services in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey. This gives the service a potential user base of 24 million across Europe. This figure represents the total number of total subscribers for all participating telcos.
Last December, Microsoft signed similar deals to give mobile access to its Hotmail users in Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey. Although Microsoft doesn't give out the detailed figures, users for the service are thought to number in the tens of thousands.
John Delaney, principal analyst at Ovum said the deal showed Microsoft was struggling to interest the larger mobile carriers in the technology. He said: "Microsoft has a much bigger leverage with the smaller carriers, and a lot of the carriers are still focused on multi-media messaging on GPRS as the future."
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