AMD Announces Widespread Availability and Broad Global OEM Support for New Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor


AMD announces the widespread availability of its 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, which delivers up to 35 percent more performance with up to a 35 percent decrease in power consumption at idle. With IT decision-makers looking to do more with less, the newest Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor can help drive data center efficiencies and reduce complexities with innovations that offer superior virtualization performance and increased performance-per-watt. Global OEMs are expected to immediately offer enterprise and SMB customers more than 27 systems, available between launch today and the end of the year, based on the 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, formerly code-named "Shanghai."

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Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors are designed to accelerate the performance of virtualized applications and improve system utilization with enhanced AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) technology.

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AMD helps lower energy consumption and cooling costs of data centers with unique power management technology and ground-breaking performance-per-watt of Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors.

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AMD Opteron™ processors boast superior ability to handle the strenuous and mounting demands placed on today’s high-traffic Web-based businesses, delivering high scalability designed to handle heavy user traffic while balancing cost and power concerns.

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The AMD Opteron™ processor was designed to remove on-chip inefficiencies, helping to maximize performance with minimal expense. Trusted in cutting edge data centers and high performance computing architecture, AMD is relied upon to help provide superior performance boost for the working environments of today and tomorrow.

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Server Chips: AMD delivers superior performance and power consumption with its new 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor (9 min 02 sec)
John Fruehe, Worldwide Business Development Manager of AMD's server workstation product line talks about the performance and power enhancement of AMD's 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor.

AMD & Red Hat Demo Live Migration Across Vendor Platforms (5 min 00 sec)
Experts talk about live migration across a heterogeneous server pool, which allows enterprises to live migrate from one server pool to another, thereby significantly driving up the efficiency of the data center.

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