AMD Announces Industry Support for AMD Opteron and Eighth-
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Posted 6/03/02 at 4:51 pm by Gavric
At Computex Taipei 2002, AMD today announced more than 35 leading hardware infrastructure vendors plan to support its upcoming AMD Opteron and eighth-generation AMD Athlon processors. AMD’s next-generation processors are designed to provide enterprise-class 32-bit and native 64-bit performance.
Market-leading motherboard, chipset, BIOS, memory, clock generator, socket, voltage and LPC flash manufacturers have pledged support of AMD’s eighth-generation platform. AMD and our partners are committed to providing customers an enterprise-class 64-bit computing experience.
“AMD and our infrastructure partners are committed to building innovative technologies based on the next-generation AMD Athlon and AMD Opteron platform,” said Rich Heye, vice president, platform engineering and infrastructure, Computation Products Group, AMD. “AMD is gaining critical mass with broad partner support of our eighth-generation platforms, and will help lead the industry toward an easy-to-adopt 64-bit computing standard.”
The AMD Opteron processor is based on the industry-standard x86 instruction set, providing a compelling 64-bit migration strategy for enterprise IT customers. Enterprise IT customers can also benefit from the unified processing architecture, allowing them to use the same processor technology for front and back office environments. The AMD Opteron platform is designed to support large, intensive workloads, allowing companies to develop enterprise solutions and scale up to an 8-way multiprocessing environment.
"Ever-increasing memory capacities, even for desktop systems and entry-level servers, will drive the shift to 64-bit computing," observed Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64, a Saratoga, California-based market research and consulting organization. "This transition will play out slowly over a several-year period and as it proceeds, users will want to mix their old 32-bit packages with newer 64-bit programs. The ability of AMD's upcoming eighth-generation processors to handle both 32-bit and 64-bit applications will simplify this migration process and ease support issues throughout the industry infrastructure."
"As a leading technology solution manufacturer, ASUS offers a comprehensive motherboard lineup for the most advanced platforms. ASUS motherboards will enable users to realize the benefits of 64-bit technology, while incorporating unbeatable value-added features," says Jonathan Tsang, Vice President of ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
“ECS will support the eighth-generation AMD processors with the latest motherboard technologies providing native support of both 32-bit and 64-bit instruction sets,” said Mike Chou, senior vice president of ECS marketing division. “With a unified processing architecture, users will be able to support mixed 32-bit and 64-bit applications in the same environment.”
“Utilizing AMD’s X86-64 architecture, FIC motherboard technology will be ideal for PCs, workstations or multiprocessor servers,” said Gene Sheu, president, FIC networking and information group. “The future AMD Opteron and eighth-generation AMD Athlon platforms will provide performance and scalability for even the most intense computing environments.”
“64-bit architecture will enable systems using GIGABYTE and AMD technologies to provide the reliability, scalability and performance for a full range of customers,” said Johnson Lin, senior vice president and general manager of PCBA product business unit, GIGABYTE Technology. “Gamers through commercial users, whose profitability depends on computing performance, will be able to benefit from the powerful new platform.”
“With HyperTransport™ technology, the AMD Opteron and eighth-generation AMD Athlon processors and MSI motherboards will provide customers with improved performance, eased integration and increased graphics and data throughput,” said Larry Wu, sales VP, MSI. “HyperTransport technology will also help alleviate memory bottlenecks, improve bandwidth and diminish latency.”
"We believe the performance advances of the AMD Opteron and eighth-generation AMD Athlon processors combined with Phoenix BIOS technologies will provide enterprise customers with significantly increased scalability and performance," said Alan L. McCann, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Corporate Marketing and Products Division, Phoenix Technologies. "Upcoming AMD processor-based 64-bit configurations of workstations and servers with up to eight processors will provide the power and performance required in the commercial environment."
Shipments of the AMD Opteron processor for servers and workstations are planned to begin in the first half of 2003. Shipments of AMD’s eighth-generation AMD Athlon processor for desktops are planned to begin in the fourth quarter of 2002.
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