AMD Launches Quad Core Opterons for Two-, Four- and Eight-socket Systems
Advanced Micro Devices releases four more versions of its quad-core Opterons server chip, adding more performance to the company’s product line. The four quad-core processors now available are the 2.5GHz Opteron 2360 SE, 2.4GHz 2358 SE, 2.5GHz 8360 SE, and 2.4GHz 8358 SE. AMD also released three new Barcelona processors for single-socket servers earlier in June.
“These Opteron offerings are for users who are most interested in maximum performance and are not concerned as much about wattage,” said Steve Demski, AMD’s Opteron product manager, “people who may have used high-end Unix systems and mainframes and want that kind of performance at a lower price point.”
To be specific, workloads typically benefiting from four- and eight-socket server processing (the AMD 8000 series) include large databases, business processing systems (enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management and supply chain management) and business intelligence, as well as other IT infrastructure applications including heavy-duty Web serving and messaging, according to AMD.
The new quad-core AMD Opteron SE processors use registered memory and can support up to eight memory sticks per CPU. The chips are available from global OEMs and vendors, including Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc., Dell Inc. and IBM.
The three single-socket chips that make up AMD’s new Opteron 1300 series are all quad-cores, comprising the 2.1GHz Opteron 1352 ($209), the 2.2GHz 1354 ($255) and the 2.3GHz 1356 ($377).
Source: Data Center
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