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What’s New with Second-Generation AMD Opteron™ Processors

UPCOMING QUAD-CORE AMD OPTERON™ PROCESSORS:
REVOLUTIONARY PERFORMANCE WITH AN EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN

Extraordinary performance and efficiency in a consistent thermal envelope, thanks to a native core design like no other.
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Second-Generation AMD Opteron™ processors with Direct Connect Architecture add significant new features on top of the same proven technologies that helped establish AMD's industry leadership in performance-per-watt for 1P-8P x86 servers and workstations.

Quad-Core Upgradeability: Designed to enable an easy platform transition from DDR2 compatible Dual-Core to Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors in 2007, for improved application performance without infrastructure related power or cooling changes.

AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™): Hardware-assisted technology helps enable higher levels of efficiency and utilization by allowing the division of one computer into several virtual machines.

Enhanced Performance-Per-Watt: AMD PowerNow!™ technology combined with and energy-efficient DDR2 memory sets a new standard in performance-per-watt computing. Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors (planned availability in 2007) will integrate into the same DDR2-based platforms at the same power efficiency with increased performance-per-watt capabilities.

DDR2 Memory: Low-power, high-performance memory enables higher bandwidths and at reduced operational cost compared to DDR1 and FBDIMM memory.

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Features and Benefits:

Performance: Product Information: All AMD Opteron™ Processor Product Information

 
Native
Quad-Core Processing Power

AMD Demonstrates the Industry's First Native x86 Quad-Core Processor
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Second-Generation
AMD Opteron™ processor based systems from IBM.
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Second-Generation
AMD Opteron™ processor based systems from Sun.
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HP supports Second-Generation
AMD Opteron™
processors.
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Power Management

Energy efficient
AMD Opteron™ processors provide uncompromised performance.
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Online Enterprise Event

Innovations from AMD, IBM, and Novell.
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