When Curt Schumacher began working at the Chicago Board Options Exchange nearly a quarter century ago, the question of what hardware platforms to use to support the business was relatively simple.

AMD increased its share across all markets served by x86 processors at Intel's expense in the third quarter of 2025, according to Mercury Research. Intel is holding strong, and as its latest offerings ...

A Silicon Valley start-up bets that AMD's Opteron processor and built-in networking will help its high-end x86 servers succeed where others fail. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Despite Itanium's rough start and the success of the x86 family, Intel says Itanium has a future in big-iron servers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

The third quarter was a good time for server sales, with worldwide server revenue growing even faster than shipments, indicating a rise in average selling prices. Analyst firm Gartner on Monday ...

Silicon Graphics Inc. last week added low-cost options, including an x86-based server, to its product line, as it continues its effort to return to profitability after its bankruptcy filing in May.

IBM on Tuesday used the CeBIT trade show in Germany to unveil its new eX5 line of servers which allows memory to scale to up to four times that of existing servers, said Roland Hagan, vice president ...