AMD (NYSE: AMD) today introduced the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM)
processor, the world's most advanced x86 processor ever designed and
manufactured and the first native x86 quad-core microprocessor.
Designed from inception for the most demanding datacenters, Quad-Core
AMD Opteron processor-based servers from global OEMs and system
builders can deliver breakthrough capabilities to customers in a time
of dramatically escalating performance-per-watt emphasis.
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with AMD's revolutionary Direct
Connect Architecture introduce innovations that go beyond four x86
processing cores on a single die of silicon. Critical considerations
for today's most challenging business requirements inspired Quad-Core
AMD Opteron processor innovations: energy efficiency with a 50 percent
increase in integer and floating-point performance,(1) enhanced
virtualization performance, and investment protection via a
customer-centric approach enabling non-disruptive transitions from
dual- to quad-core within the same power and thermal envelopes to help
keep infrastructure costs down.
"Today marks one of the great milestones in microprocessor
achievement as AMD again raises expectations for industry-standard
computing," said Hector Ruiz, chairman and chief executive officer,
AMD. "We've worked closely with our customers and partners to design
a new generation of processing solutions embodied by today's Quad-Core
AMD Opteron processor - a four-way winner in performance, energy
efficiency, virtualization and investment protection. Early customer
response has been extremely positive."
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based systems from global OEM and
system-builder partners begin shipping this month and are expected to
increase in number through the remainder of the year. AMD Phenom(TM)
processor solutions, which will leverage many of the same benefits of
this innovative, next-generation architecture, are expected to be
available for the desktop market in December. Due in part to the
industry's most stable x86 server platform, more than 50 socket
compatible Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-ready system choices are on
the market today from tier one OEMs, all of whom are publicly
supporting today's introduction.
"Today more customers choose ProLiant for their AMD
processor-based server blades than any other vendor by a factor
of more than 2 to 1. HP offers customers a broad portfolio built on
innovative designs to address customer needs in the areas of power,
virtualization and cost," said Paul Miller, vice president, marketing,
enterprise storage and servers, HP. "With today's launch of Quad-Core
AMD Opteron processors, we can help customers bring new levels of
efficiency to their infrastructure as we broaden our AMD Opteron
processor-based family of servers."
"Sun is thrilled about the introduction of Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processors. Incorporating Sun's innovative design principles that
enable stunning scalability and industry-leading performance-per-watt,
our upcoming Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers and
workstations will only accelerate the momentum Sun is experiencing in
its x64 business," said John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun
Microsystems' Systems Group. "With so much pent-up demand for the
scalability of native quad-core processing, Sun believes there will be
rapid, widespread adoption of Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based
systems. We applaud AMD for yet another technological breakthrough,
and are excited to continue to grow our alliance."
"Dell and AMD share a commitment to delivering industry-leading
performance, performance-per-watt, and the most energy-efficient
product designs to help our customers focus on driving their business
forward," said Brad Anderson, senior vice president, Dell Product
Group. "Dell's ability to seamlessly deliver the benefits of AMD's
Dual Dynamic Power Management technology means our customers can get
more today and for future growth in the AMD processor-powered Dell
PowerEdge 2970 and Energy Smart 2970."
"IBM was the first global OEM to support AMD Opteron processors in
2003. Today our relationship is delivering powerful and
energy-efficient business performance computing solutions" said James
Gargan, vice president, Brand Management System x & BladeCenter, IBM.
"Our x86 systems feature IBM's X-Architecture innovation, such as
Xcelerated Memory Technology, to help optimize Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processor capabilities for peak system performance. We look forward to
bringing new products to market with AMD later this year to help
strengthen IBM's position as the world's top server vendor(2)."
Systems based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are also being
announced today by a host of other manufacturers, including Appro,
Egenera, Gateway, Rackable Systems, Supermicro and Verari.
Additionally, AMD is providing the channel with a tremendous
opportunity to be able to offer their customers Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processor-based solutions very soon after launch. AMD Validated Server
Program platforms are available today through distribution, empowering
channel partners with the opportunity to be early to market with
solutions.
AMD introduces Average CPU Power (ACP)
AMD also today introduced the Average CPU Power (ACP) metric,
which represents processor power usage, including cores, integrated
memory controller, and HyperTransport(TM) technology links, while
running a suite of typical and relevant commercially useful high
utilization workloads to be more indicative of the power consumption
that end-users can expect. ACP is a useful metric for data center
operators when estimating power budgets to size their datacenters. AMD
will continue to provide thermal design power (TDP) specifications to
platform designers in AMD power and thermal datasheets.
AMD is introducing Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors today at the
55- and 75-watt ACP. For system designers, AMD will continue to state
its TDP specifications.
New Standard in Energy Efficiency
As datacenters in the U.S. face the potential of doubling their
energy consumption by 2011(3) , new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors
introduce the world's most energy-efficient x86 architecture,
bolstered by a variety of new power-saving technologies, including:
-- AMD CoolCore(TM) Technology, for reducing energy consumption
by turning off unused parts of the processor;
-- Independent Dynamic Core Technology, an enhancement to AMD
PowerNow!(TM) technology, allowing each core to vary its clock
frequency depending on the specific performance requirement of
the applications it is supporting; and
-- Dual Dynamic Power Management (DDPM), which provides an
independent power supply to the cores and to the memory
controller, allowing the cores and memory controllers to
operate on different voltages, determined by usage. DDPM is
available in most Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based
platforms being introduced today.
"Microsoft and AMD are working together to drive innovation,
performance and energy efficiency across the datacenters and
development environments," said Bill Laing, general manager of Windows
Server Division at Microsoft Corp. "With 64-bit multi-core technology,
Direct Connect Architecture and built-in virtualization, AMD Opteron
processors continue to provide Microsoft Windows customers with an
innovative platform. Looking ahead, we believe Windows Server 2008,
SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 running with Quad-Core AMD
Opteron processors will provide a compelling development and
deployment platform to drive customers' dynamic IT environments."
Optimal Virtualization Performance
Datacenters depend on virtualization software as an essential tool
to consolidate server workloads, operate more securely, and enable
disaster recovery. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with Direct
Connect Architecture excel in virtualized environments because of the
integrated memory controller(4) for reduced memory latency, and Rapid
Virtualization Indexing, a new AMD innovation in AMD
Virtualization(TM) technology designed to reduce the overhead
associated with software virtualization. Rapid Virtualization Indexing
takes functionality that was previously performed in software and
greatly accelerates it by performing those functions within the CPU to
help enable near-real time application performance.
Investment Protection
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors maintain compatibility with the
socket and thermal envelopes of Second-Generation AMD Opteron
processors to enable a seamless customer upgrade path. AMD's common
core strategy empowers customers to scale with one AMD architecture to
reduce platform management complexity and increase datacenter uptime
and productivity.
Outstanding Performance
Continuing the legacy of the AMD Opteron processor family,
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors introduce several new ground-breaking
technologies enabling impressive results across a suite of benchmarks.
Within comparable thermal bands, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors
outperform the competition on several industry-standard benchmarks
including: SPECfp(R)_rate2006, SPEC(R)int_2006, SPECompM(R)2001Base,
STREAM, Fluent and LS-DYNA. For more details on the performance of
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, please visit
http://www.amd.com/opteronperformance.
Visit AMD on the Web
For more information on the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor
including FAQs, development tools, online press kits and other general
information, please visit http://multicore.amd.com. Quad-Core AMD
Opteron processor pricing can be found at http://www.amd.com/pricing.
About AMD
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is a leading global provider of
innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and
consumer electronics markets. AMD is dedicated to driving open
innovation, choice and industry growth by delivering superior
customer-centric solutions that empower consumers and businesses
worldwide. For more information, visit www.amd.com.
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other things, future and planned products, technologies,
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availability and number of Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based
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and rebating programs, product bundling, standard setting, new product
introductions or other activities targeting AMD's business will
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funding and may not be able to raise funds on favorable terms or at
all; customers stop buying AMD's products or materially reduce their
operations or demand for its products; AMD will be unable to develop,
launch and ramp new products and technologies in the volumes and mix
required by the market and at mature yields on a timely basis; global
business and economic conditions will worsen; AMD will be unable to
transition to advanced manufacturing process technologies in a timely
and effective way; and AMD will be unable to maintain the requisite
level of investment in research and development and capacity,
investors are urged to review in detail the risks and uncertainties in
AMD's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not
limited to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
June 30, 2007.
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Industry Support
Absoft
"The new Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor is exciting for our
customers because it is the first native quad-core solution on a
single piece of silicon. Further, the improved I/O, core and cache
enhancements allow higher performance while consuming less energy.
This is exactly what Absoft Fortran customers want for their HPC
clusters and high performance workstations. Absoft has been working
with AMD to develop new AMD specific optimizations for its latest
Absoft Fortran compilers. These newest optimizations show significant
speed increases in several areas and will be available to our
customers soon. Absoft is committed to further expanding our
relationship with AMD and to continue providing our customers with the
highest performance available on AMD based computing systems." -Wood
Lotz, President, Absoft Corporation
Advanced Clustering Technologies
"We're very excited to see new technology entering the market that
fills the gap for many of our clients who require faster clock speeds
as well as high memory bandwidth. This advancement offered by AMD will
take many of those clients to the next level not only with regards to
density, but with overall cluster efficiency." -Shelly (Matthews)
Kelley, Vice President of Sales, Advanced Clustering Technologies
Angstrom Microsystems
"Angstrom's compute hungry customers are looking forward to
deploying the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor. With our
patent-pending cooling technology, Angstrom offers 832 cores per rack,
setting the mark for high density liquid cooled AMD server solutions."
-Lalit Jain, CEO, Angstrom Microsystems
ANSYS, Inc.
"We are very excited by the performance of our simulation and
modeling software on the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor.
Innovation based on simulation is a fundamental part of the product
design and development process, and our customers require optimized
performance on state-of-the-art microprocessor technologies. Our
collaboration with AMD allows us to fulfill those expectations, as the
performance metrics we've achieve clearly demonstrate." -Jim Cashman,
President and CEO, ANYSYS, Inc.
Appro
"Appro XtremeServers and workstations powered by AMD Opteron(TM)
processors represent a value proposition based on improved performance
and memory availability for traditional high-performance computing
(HPC) and commercial applications, while adding reliability and
flexibility for our end-users with peak performance and outstanding
value. Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processors improve our server's value
proposition through an enhanced cache structure designed to boost
performance and increase data and efficiency handling, thereby
reducing the latency of accessing main memory, especially for
compute-intensive multi-threaded applications. In addition, the
architecture drastically improves the memory and I/O latency for HPC
customers that are using 64-bit applications, and it helps 32-bit
applications run faster as well. In the end, the importance of AMD's
native multi-core architecture is vital for computational-intensive
business productivity." -John Lee, Vice President of Advanced
Technology Solutions Group, Appro
Arima
"AMD's native quad-core architecture truly helps maximize the
price-performance equation. Arima develops server motherboard and
barebone products based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processors
because of our confidence in the substantial benefit to our customers
through improved computation performance, bandwidth and
performance-per-watt." -LC Tsai, President, Server Business Unit,
Arima
ASA Computers, Inc.
"Selecting the right hardware and software is complex; the wrong
choice can be quite expensive. That is why our customers come to us
for help in choosing the right components for their web, mail, storage
or general purpose servers. It's comforting to know that the
innovative engineering of ASA Computers matched with the exceptional
performance-per-watt and computing capabilities of Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(TM) processors can deliver scalable solutions for our
customers now and in the future." -Arvind Bhargava, CEO, ASA
Computers, Inc.
ASUS
"The Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor offers significantly
improved performance and scalability, as well as performance-per-watt.
We are confident of taking full advantage of these benefits and
providing high performance server products to our customers with the
new platform and dedicated ASUS solution." -Jerry Shen, Vice
President, ASUS
Atipa Technologies
"The convergence of server technology and processor performance
will add up to enormous opportunities for business in health care in
the remote areas, as well as data interchange and virtual education
across a wide range of industries. Information services are another
area that can heavily leverage the superior performance of Quad-Core
AMD Opteron(TM) processors. Federal, state and local governments are
in desperate need of centralizing the control of a balanced and
efficient information database. This will enable them to better
embrace social concerns and problem-solving law enforcement and
finally build a world-class information network." -Dana Chang, Vice
President, Atipa Technologies
Avnet
"During Avnet's 35-year distribution relationship with AMD, we
have helped our channel partners be among the first to market with
innovative AMD-based solutions. Avnet is collaborating with global and
regional original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), systems builder and
value-added reseller (VAR) channel partners to prepare them for
developing complete solutions based on the new Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(TM) processor. We are excited about the market potential
for the new processors, and are aligning Avnet's sales and marketing
efforts with AMD's to drive growth for channel partners in every
region." -George Condon, Senior Vice President, Avnet Embedded
Solutions, Avnet Technology Solutions
Broadcom
"We are pleased that AMD is launching its industry-defining native
quad-core microprocessors, Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processors.
Working seamlessly with Broadcom's industry-leading server I/O
chipsets, including the HT-2100 that leverages AMD's Direct Connect
Architecture for design flexibility, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors
continue AMD's tradition of energy efficiency, performance and
virtualization leadership." -Sean Conlon, General Manager, Chipset and
Storage Infrastructure Line of Business, Broadcom
Citrix
"The new Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor will further enable
our customers to take full advantage of the high scalability - up to
500 users per server in our x64 edition - offered by Citrix
Presentation Server. The Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor will
provide increased server scalability and performance benefits so
customers can easily expand their application delivery infrastructure
to deliver more business applications to more users, while providing
greater security and business flexibility at much lower cost. The
savings in space, cooling and power make it a solid investment."
-Scott Herren, Group Vice President and General Manager,
Virtualization Systems Group, Citrix Systems
Colfax International
"Our commitment to support AMD Opteron(TM) processors allows us to
deliver innovative solutions that also meet our customers' increasing
demands for energy-efficient computing and investment protection. Our
latest collaboration with AMD has combined Colfax International's
high-performing solutions with the benefits of the industry's first
native x86 quad-core processor. Together with AMD, we are focused on
providing innovative technologies that matter most to our customers."
-Mike Fay, Vice President, Colfax International
Cray Inc.
"Our customers are already achieving breakthrough results with the
Cray XT4 system and quad-core technology will allow them to solve more
complex problems faster, doing more accurate simulations. The Cray XT4
system was designed with quad-core performance in mind, and we have
seen early examples of excellent scalability and sustained performance
with Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processors and our advanced Cray
SeaStar(TM) interconnect network. Quad-core will give new customers a
big boost in performance and a substantial total cost of ownership
win. It will do the same for our current customers at a low
incremental cost, extending the useful life of their existing Cray
XT3TM and XT4 systems." -Peter Ungaro, President and CEO, Cray
Egenera
"The combination of AMD's unique Direct Connect Architecture with
Egenera's data center virtualization can deliver first-class
performance and memory capabilities for significant advantages in
application performance. AMD's native Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM)
processors place all four cores on a single piece of silicon so data
can move between cores at full speed for more efficient data sharing,
which we believe will help improve performance on memory-intensive
applications in virtualized environments. We're pleased to further
strengthen our collaboration with AMD to meet the requirements of our
enterprise customers by continuing to deliver highly available, cost
effective and scalable solutions." -Susan Davis, Vice President,
Egenera
Fujitsu Siemens Computers
"In developing the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) 2300 Series
processors, AMD has demonstrated forward thinking, not only about the
upgrade path to simply introduce the latest and greatest processor to
help enable servers to run faster, but the new processors are also
innovative in their approach to energy efficiency and virtualization
capabilities. Overall, the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors ensure
that Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERY RX330 servers are heavyweight
performers for compute-intensive database and virtualization
applications in the data center today - and tomorrow." -Jens-Peter
Seick, Senior Vice President Enterprise Business, Fujitsu Siemens
Computers
Gateway
"Our customers have been extremely pleased with our previous AMD
Opteron(TM) processor-based servers. Once again, AMD is bringing
leading-edge technology with significant benefits to our servers and,
ultimately, our customers." -Tim Diefenthaler, Senior Director,
Professional Product Management, Gateway
GIGABYTE
"The Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor enhances existing
performance-per-watt capabilities with innovative power management
capabilities, and helps increase performance and efficiency of x86
virtualization solutions with enhanced AMD Virtualization(TM)
technology. GIGABYTE is happy to collaborate with AMD to offer server
solutions powered by the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, which will
help satisfy our customers' need for high performance processing and
low power consumption." -Etay Lee, General Manager of Network and
Communication Business Unit, GIGABYTE
HPC Systems, Inc.
"With customer-centric enhancements like Dual Dynamic Power
Management(TM) and AMD CoolCore(TM) technology, as well as core and
cache enhancements and a native multi-core architecture, Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(TM) processors help better address our customers' need for
high levels of performance in the same footprint. We primarily serve
the scientific computing and research community working on complex
problems. The enhancements in the new native Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processors are definitely a big step forward in meeting their needs -
better performance without the need to revamp their full data center
infrastructure like power and cooling. Better performance, out of the
box. We are also very excited with the new standards in
performance-per-watt capabilities." -Kalyana Chadalavada, Director of
Systems Architecture, HPC Systems, Inc.
Inventec Enterprise System Corp.
"We are extremely excited to support the launch of the Quad-Core
AMD Opteron(TM) processor. We strive to build solutions based on
leading innovative and reliable technology, and by adding AMD's native
quad-core processor into our portfolio of offerings, we are able to
significantly broaden the choices available to our customers." -N.J.
Lee, Sr. VP of Inventec Enterprise System Corp.
Microway, Inc.
"The AMD Opteron(TM) processor is built from the ground up to
directly address the demands of the HPC market. Critical features of
the processor, like its integrated memory controller and
HyperTransport(TM) technology, provide it with a clear advantage over
the front side bus-based architecture that has dominated the x86 space
for many years. AMD's latest innovation, a native quad-core design
with 4 cores on a single die, enables programs that are not
memory-bound to take full advantage of the additional processing
power. Programs that can dramatically improve in speed include
floating point intensive computations, like FFTs, which have high data
re-use rates; SMP applications that make frequent calls, including
transaction-based business applications; and programs that depend on
byte code interpreters like JAVA to carry the work load. Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(TM) processors will change the face of high performance
computing." -Stephen Fried, President and CTO, Microway, Inc.
MSI
"MSI is proud to maintain its strong relationship with AMD by
supporting the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor launch with a
series of new motherboards targeted for the server market. The
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor is designed to offer better
performance in the same thermal envelopes as the current generation of
AMD Opteron processors. The new server motherboards provide high
performance, high stability and an increase in overall product
efficiency. MSI continues to drive technology leadership by supporting
the first native quad-core processor architecture in the x86-based
computing market." -Norman Tsai, Vice President of Enterprise Platform
Product Sales Division, MSI
Novell
"The strengths of the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor mesh
very well with the capabilities of SUSE Linux Enterprise as Novell and
AMD continue to provide customers with innovative solutions at the
front of the market. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 is the first
production-level operating system to support the enhanced
virtualization feature of the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor,
known as Rapid Virtualization Indexing, as we are again one of the
first Linux vendors to embrace the newest technologies offered by
AMD." -Roger Levy, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Open
Platform Solutions, Novell
NVIDIA
"We are proud to support the release of AMD's Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(TM) processors, a breakthrough native quad-core architecture
that continues AMD's tradition of energy efficiency and performance.
Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processors combined with NVIDIA nForce
Professional 3000-family MCP products will deliver exceptional
performance and stability for the most demanding server and
workstation applications." -Manoj Gujral, General Manager,
Professional MCP Business, NVIDIA
Oracle
"Our customers look to Oracle and AMD for technology solutions
that lower their total cost of ownership. Based on everything we've
seen, the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor will play a major
role in helping customers achieve their objective of lowering TCO."
-Charles Phillips, President, Oracle Corporation
PathScale
"Over the past four years, AMD and PathScale have collaborated
around several common strengths; 64-bit multi-core scalability,
outstanding memory bandwidth utilization and optimal settings for a
growing array of leading-edge AMD specific architectural features. The
PathScale Compiler Suite provides software developers with excellent
performance on AMD processors and reduced development time due to
outstanding GNU compatibility. In this way, we help our system
partners and developers with real-world code to realize the enormous
potential in this newest Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor." -Duncan
Poole, Director of Product Marketing, PathScale
PSSC Labs
"PSSC Labs is pleased to incorporate Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM)
processors in all of our product lines including our PowerWulf
Clusters, servers and workstations. AMD's new native quad-core
processor offers a tremendous amount of computing power in a very
small foot print." -Alex Lesser, Vice President, PSSC Labs
Rackable Systems
"As one of the world's leading providers of AMD processor-based
server solutions, Rackable Systems is pleased to offer this next
generation of AMD64 technology to our customers. Our award-winning,
build-to-order AMD Opteron(TM) processor-based servers enable us to
optimize system performance, expand compute density and offer
industry-leading performance per watt to our customers at exceptional
prices." -Mark J. Barrenechea, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Rackable Systems
Rackspace Managed Hosting
"We've found that AMD Opteron(TM) processors are an incredibly
reliable platform for customers with multi-threaded applications or
heavy database usage. Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processors coincide
directly with our GreenSpace initiative of lowering power consumption,
which in turn delivers great cost benefits to us that we can
ultimately pass on to customers. It is apparent that the processor was
designed with virtualization in mind, delivering near native
performance on virtualized applications and greatly improving
virtualized application performance by allowing virtual machines to
manage memory more efficiently." -Nicolas Keller, Director of Platform
Products, Rackspace Managed Hosting
Red Hat
"Customers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with
the included Red Hat Integrated Virtualization for their server
environments will greatly benefit from the new Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(TM) processors with AMD Virtualization technology. Our testing
has demonstrated performance improvements of up to 4 times over
earlier virtualized systems due to the benefits of AMD
VirtualizationTM with Rapid Virtualization Indexing and optimized
drivers. It is clear that now is the time to update your server farms
to the latest quad-core AMD based systems running the latest Red Hat
Enterprise Linux software." -Scott Crenshaw, Vice President of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Line of Business, Red Hat
Silicon Mechanics
"With enhanced performance and innovative power management
capabilities such as AMD's Dual Dynamic Power Management(TM), our
customers are eager to realize the benefits of our solutions powered
by AMD's first native quad-core processor. Since Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(TM) processors operate within the same power and thermal
envelopes as dual-core AMD Opteron processors, customers can benefit
from quad-core technology without compromising power consumption. It's
an exciting upgrade that can increase capabilities without altering
datacenter infrastructure." -Dave Bryan, President, Silicon Mechanics
Sun Microsystems
"Sun has a long history of providing solutions that define
innovation. The free and open Solaris 10 Operating System is
leveraging more than 20 years of SMP expertise - with 64-bit computing
since 1998 - and will offer exceptional computing performance,
security and virtualization capabilities on AMD Opteron(TM)
processor-based systems ranging from single cores to 32-cores and
beyond." -Marc Hamilton, Vice President of Solaris Marketing, Sun
Microsystems
Supermicro
"Our quad-core A+ solutions deliver great value to customers in
all segments of the server and workstation marketplace. With a
comprehensive selection of high-quality Server Building Block
Solutions to choose from, Supermicro offers truly
application-optimized Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor-based
platforms. The leading system-level power efficiency of our
cutting-edge server designs enables us to offer earth-friendly
solutions with exceptional performance-per-watt capabilities that
empower customers to grow, adapt and scale as their business demands
evolve." -Alex Hsu, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Supermicro
SWsoft
"The combination of AMD's powerful, energy-efficient Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(TM) processors with the superior density and easy
manageability of our Virtuozzo operating system server virtualization
software is a true 'green IT' solution. As a solution that enables
dozens to hundreds of containers to immediately and automatically
leverage AMD's native quad-core hardware, Virtuozzo enables
exceptional datacenter efficiency from administrative, ROI, and
energy-consumption perspectives. We're thrilled to work with AMD to
offer a solution in which businesses, IT managers, and the environment
all come out winners." -Serguei Beloussov, Chief Executive Officer,
SWsoft
Tyan Computer
"Since the release of the Second-Generation AMD Opteron(TM)
processor, Tyan's Thunder, Tomcat and Transport branded products have
realized the benefits of AMD's industry-leading AMD64 technology to
provide server infrastructures with energy efficiency, remarkable
performance and system virtualization. This is an exciting day for our
customers, as they can now experience the significant increase in
processing power and performance output, that we expect from the
Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor, without dramatic upgrade
requirements." -Ryan Yang, Vice President, Tyan Computer
Uniwide Technologies
"Uniwide Technologies is proud to announce our new platforms, the
1512 and 1514 barebone series. These 1U, 1P solutions will be powered
by Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) 2300 Series processors. Uniwide
Technologies is mainly a provider of 2P and 4P enterprise solutions,
and this is the first time we have developed a 1P solution. We truly
believe in and support Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with their
superior technology, 128-bit SSE floating point capabilities per core,
a new, 2MB high-speed L3 cache, and dynamic power management
capabilities. Combined with our experience with 8 DIMMs per CPU
technology, we believe our new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-powered
platforms will provide high performance with low power usage to help
keep infrastructure costs down." -Daniel Kim, CEO, Uniwide
Technologies
Verari Systems
"With its unrivaled power efficiency and computing density, our
environmentally responsible architecture and patented Vertical Cooling
Technology(TM) has been enabling the green data center for years. The
addition of Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processors to our line-up is
providing our customers with the ability to increase overall
performance while optimizing energy consumption." -David B. Wright,
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Verari Systems
Virtual Iron
"We are pleased to support the launch of the Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(TM) processor, including their Rapid Virtualization Indexing
capabilities, in Virtual Iron Version 4. With its native quad-core
architecture, simple plug-in upgrade and improved
performance-per-watt, combined with our enterprise class capabilities
and performance supporting the most advanced, policy-based use cases
like HA and data center load balancing, our many joint customers will
immediately benefit from this next generation AMD Opteron(TM)
processor platform." -Mike Grandinetti, Chief Marketing Officer,
Virtual Iron
VMware
"We see multi-core capabilities in the Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM
processor as a perfect fit for virtualization. The Rapid
Virtualization Indexing feature of AMD's Direct Connect Architecture
enhances this combination by smoothing out the performance profile
across many workloads." -Dr. Stephen Herrod, Vice President of
Technology Development, VMware
Western Scientific
"We are extremely excited to leverage Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM)
processors in our arsenal of solutions aimed at accelerating
innovation and driving down IT costs. Our #27110
customers have greatly benefited from the advanced feature set and
industry leading performance-per-watt of AMD64 technology, and we
believe Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors usher in a new level of
high-performing, energy-efficient computing." -Doug Johnson, Vice
President, Western Scientific
XenSource
"The Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor is ideally suited to
virtualization workloads. We believe that AMD's Rapid Virtualization
Indexing technology will help to reduce the remaining overhead of
virtualization, and are pleased to offer support for this technology
in XenEnterprise v4, XenSource's flagship virtualization platform,
shipping today to customers worldwide." -Simon Crosby, Chief
Technology Officer, XenSource
ZT Systems
"ZT Systems is pleased to collaborate with AMD on the launch of
this groundbreaking new native quad-core server technology. Quad-Core
AMD Opteron(TM) processors provide a leading-edge solution that
further expands our server offering and capabilities for providing
ultra high-density, energy-efficient solutions. Our data center
customers will be able to benefit from the highest level of
performance-per-watt within our cost effective, custom solutions. As
an AMD Platinum Solution Provider, we see native quad-core solutions
as a large part of our expansive growth into the x86 server market."
-Rick Garian, Vice President of Business Development and Strategy, ZT
Systems
(1) The comparison presented above is based on SPECint_rate2006
and SPECfp_rate2006 tests of the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor Model
2222 against results for the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor Model
2350 under submission to SPEC as of Sep 6, 2007. For the latest
results, visit http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/. SPEC and the
benchmark names SPECint and SPECfp are registered trademarks of the
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark
results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of
Sep 6, 2007.
(2) Based on Q207 IDC worldwide server tracker results
(3) EPA report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy
Efficiency - Aug 2, 2007 -
http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/prod_development/downloads/EPA_
Datacenter_Report_Congress_Final1.pdf (Due to the length of this
URL it may need to be copied and pasted into your browser).
(4) An AMD innovation first introduced to x86 processors with the
AMD Opteron processor in April 2003.
