AMD Aims New Opteron Server Chips at the Cloud
December 4, 2012
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeffrey Burt.
AMD’s Opteron 4300 and 3300 processors will combine performance and power efficiency for such environments as cloud computing and Web hosting. Advanced Micro Devices is aiming for cloud providers and smaller businesses with new power-efficient Opteron server chips.
The nine new Opterons, introduced Dec. 4, are based on AMD’s new Piledriver architecture and are being targeted at the midrange and entry-level segments for use in servers that can process high levels of Web-based transactions in such environments as cloud computing, virtualized infrastructures and Web hosting, according to company officials…
The Opteron 4300 and 3300 Series chips, which come with up to eight cores, push forward AMD’s strategy to gain traction in the highly competitive x86-based server space through better power-per-watt capabilities than processors from rival Intel…
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