24 June 2007

AMD to introduce 45nm process AM3 CPU family in 2H08

AMD to introduce 45nm process Socket AM3 CPU family in 2H08

It also looks like they might drop the "64" from the name of some future CPUs, but they will still of course all be fully 64-bit.

Source: Digitimes

16 June 2007

Intel Itanium to skip 45nm

Intel's high end 64-bit chip, the Itanium, to skip over 45nm and go straight to 32nm.
It's going to get more powerful & have more features such as quad-core.

Source: vnunet

12 June 2007

Solaris Express Developer Edition 5/2007

A new release of this excellent Solaris edition.

Solaris Express Developer Edition

Lots of new features :

Solaris Express Developer Edition : Features

including:
New Sun Studio 12 C, C++ and Fortran compilers
Solaris (Solaris Express Community Edition build 64a)
and lots more.

Apple shows off new Leopard developer features

Xcode 3.0 has full 64-bit support, Xray looks exciting.
Leopard has DTrace
Leopard Developer

Leopard is fully ground-up 64-bit:
Leopard 64-bit

Engadget link Leopard 64-bit

07 June 2007

Sun Studio 12 released

"Sun Studio software delivers high-performance, optimizing C, C++, and Fortran compilers for the Solaris OS on SPARC, and both Solaris and Linux on x86/x64 platforms, including the latest multi-core systems"

Lots of new features including :
  • Supports Linux
  • Better x86-64 support
  • New Sun Studio IDE
  • Better multicore support
  • Faster compiler and better code generation

Sun Studio 12
What's new

01 June 2007

Fedora 7 released

New Fedora 7 release

New features include :
  • Linux 2.6.21
  • GNOME 2.18 and KDE 3.5.6
  • Xorg Server 1.3
  • Better KVM support
  • New Wireless stack

Fedora Project
Fedora 7 Release Notes

Torrent links
including x86_64 DVD and x86_64 Live