AMD cuts quad core power
Opteron drops to 55W
TROUBLED CHIP FIRM AMD this morning launched five low power quad core server processors. The company reckons manufacturers will use its chips in both rack mounted as well as blade servers.
AMD’s x86 Opteron HE processors runs on only 55 Watts of AC power, and comes in 2300 and 8300 product lines for two, four, and eight way rack server blades.
Randy Allen, corporate vice president and general manager for AMD said in a press release that AMD’s new quad core Opteron HE processors “were designed to help data center managers who see power consumption and virtualisation as the keys to solving their overall performance equation".
He added that the new processors with their souped up power management and virtualisation capabilities “offer a compelling platform for power-conscious datacenter managers who are changing the way they think about performance.”
This is AMD’s latest announcement concerning low-power chips and is seen as a good move for the flailing firm. Last month AMD released the Athlon X2 4450e and the Athlon X2 4050e, two 45-watt, low energy dual core processors, whilst in March AMD said it would start shipping its X2 4850E 45 watt chip. µ
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Forgit Daamit or even more recent dammit (self proclaimed) heres new one straight from Palor:AmD or even A.D
hahahaha. Actually this is is what happens when big new powerful chip fails, all bad guts get stripped out & back to Fire.
Heres another: take four core with extra controller core & cross over it to another 4 core with extra core for controller, yet at 90 degree angle to first(To use more mainboard I/O directions), than add third core controller for both thats betwwen them other controller cores & Wala: ELEVEN Core.\ Pat Pend DMD
T.Drashek
Not AC
CPU's run on DC not AC.And would it be too much to ask for you to include a reference to the chip's clockspeed in addition to listing its part number? Phenom 8300 = ? GHz.