Technology Editor Bill Wong takes a hands-on look at SuperMicro's AS-4022G-6F A+ Server that runs a pair of AMD 16-core, Opteron 6000 Series.

Reliability and performance meet demand for speed, flexibility and intelligence in today’s connector technology.

Cavium's OCTEON III is built around 48 MIPS64 cores along with major hardware accelerators to handle everything from RAID to packet processing.