What if the AMD Opteron™ processor never existed?

The year is 2003. Data centers across the world are in crisis. Enterprise IT departments have fallen victim to an ill conceived strategy of ramping up processor clock speeds in an effort to address the rapidly increasing needs for better performance and more processing power. This strategy has led to escalating power consumption and heat dissipation in the data center. Simply put, companies need more computing power, but they've run out of room and power infrastructures.

On April 22, 2003, with the introduction of the AMD Opteron™ processor, the industry changed forever. Since that time, enterprise customers have realized the benefits of superior processing made possible with simultaneous 32- and 64-bit computing capabilities, experienced unparalleled performance and efficiency gains through AMD’s revolutionary Direct Connect Architecture and the world’s first x86-based, native multi-core processor, and above all, have been introduced to a new era of energy-efficient computing.

As AMD celebrates the four-year anniversary of the AMD Opteron processor, we pause to think about how life would be different without the evolutionary and revolutionary advancements brought forth by the AMD Opteron processor.

Imagine a world...

without simultaneous 32-bit and 64-bit computing capabilities
without native multi-core technology
that ignores energy-efficient computing
in which the AMD Opteron processor never existed

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