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Egan Orion the Inquirer , Tuesday 9 December 2008. 13:31:00 Racks and blades BIG TIN server vendor Sun Microsystems will update its rackmount and blade lines today with new systems built around AMD's latest quad-core Opteron processor called Shanghai. Sun joins Cray, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and others in jumping on the AMD's Shanghai bandwagon.... > > (link)

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