AMD Reveals New Opteron Processors
Advanced Micro Devices will be revealing their new five quad-core Opteron processors – which are said to be energy efficient according to the manufacturer. The chips will include the two additions to the 8300 series and the three to the AMD’s 2300 series.
The new chips will have a CPU power of 55 watts and are designed for two, four, and eight way rack blades and servers. The model numbers are the Opteron 2347 HE, 2346 HE, 2344 HE, 8346 HE, and 8347 HE.
“Our new quad-core AMD Opteron HE processors were designed to help datacenter managers who see power consumption and virtualization as the keys to solving their overall performance equation,” said Randy Allen, corporate VP and general manager of AMD’s server and workstation division, in a statement.
AMD is planning on shipping out the new 45-nm server ship – which has been called the Shanghai – later this year. The Shanghai will deliver 25% better performance and will be a 4-core processor.