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New Hyperscale Cloud Data Centers Processors by AMD

Friday, June 25th, 2010

AMD introduces its new AMD Opteron 4100-series microprocessors that target cloud and hyperscale data centers today. The low cost AMD supported chips are on a new cost-efficient server platform code-named San Marino and low-power platform called Adelaide. AMD claims that select new central processing units (CPUs) offer the lowest “per-core” power consumption in the server industry.

“Until now, customers wanting to build a dense and power-efficient cloud or hyperscale data center had to shoehorn expensive, higher-end solutions into their computing environment, or they had to choose low-power client-based designs that may not have offered the right level of performance and server functionality. With the AMD Opteron 4000-series platform, these customers now have a server platform that is extremely power- and cost-efficient, allows a high degree of customization,” said Patrick Patla, corporate vice president and general manager of server and embedded division at AMD.

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AMD Releases $99 Opteron For Cloud

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Advanced Micro Devices has released a $99 Opteron processor that can be used in most cloud-computing environments.  The cloud server quad-core 4122 is the lowest-priced server chip ever sold by AMD and is one of the 4100 series Opterons unveiled Wednesday for one- and two-socket servers. The 4100 family comprises two quad-core processors and seven six-core chips. Prices range from $99 to $698.

AMD’s latest processors and cloud servers are aimed at cloud-computing environments that run on inexpensive, low-power chips that drive scale-out servers. Power requirements of the latest AMD chips are 32 watts, 50 watts or 75 watts, depending on the processor.

All the chips support AMD’s latest virtualization technology and include an integrated DDR3 memory controller. In addition, the chip sockets used for the 4100 series will support AMD’s 16-core Opteron, codenamed Bulldozer, which is set for release next year.

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AMD Unveils New Opterons

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

AMD unveiled their new Opteron 4000 series (“Lisbon” platform) and Firestream coprocessor today. AMD has a particularly good slide that summarizes most of the other slides in most of the other “here’s our new cloud datacenter product” decks that I’ve seen in the past few weeks.

The 4000 series is AMD’s first server processor family to target the 32W, 50W, and 75W per node power bands, and AMD claims that the 32W 4162EE and 4164EE have the lowest power per core of any server processor on the market as of launch. This low per-core power puts the 1.8GHz 4164EE at the top of the 4000 series price range, at $698. At the bottom of the series price range is the 75W, 2.2GHz, four-core 4122, for $99. Clearly, AMD is not pricing these parts on anything like raw performance, but on efficiency.

The new Opterons are based on pretty much the same microarchitecture that AMD has been using for some time now, so there’s nothing new there. AMD has focused most of its efforts for Lisbon on getting the platform’s overall power down and its scalability up.

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