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AMD Sees Broad Support For Opteron

Tuesday, 15 August 2006 by Michel Roth

AMD announced broad software industry support for its upcoming next-generation AMD Opteron processor family, which provides the ISV (independent software vendor) and open source software development communities with hardware support for the development of the next evolution of business-class enterprise applications.

With the industry facing increasing demands for technologies that enable data center resource consolidation and lower total cost of ownership, the next-generation AMD Opteron processor is designed to provide a smarter choice with the introduction of AMD Virtualization technology and a seamless upgrade path from dual-core to quad-core processing. In addition, the AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture reduces or eliminates performance bottlenecks, so that software can leverage AMD64 dual-core technology and multi-threaded development methodologies to push the boundaries of data analysis and real-world simulations with faster, more powerful and efficient hardware.

The next-generation AMD Opteron processor is enabled with hardware-assists that provide virtualization software vendors with an improved, simplified infrastructure for offering mainframe-class virtualization to the x86 market.

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