AMD Announces Widespread Availability and Broad Global OEM Support for New Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor

AMD Announces Widespread Availability and Broad Global OEM Support for New Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor

AMD announces availability of its 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, delivering more performance and decrease in power consumption at idle.

—“Shanghai” platform delivers sweeping virtualization performance leadership, live migration capability and up to 40 percent increase in virtualization performance—

— Enhanced 45nm design and industry’s most stable x86 server platform architecture delivers the features and efficiencies today’s data center demands—

With IT decision-makers looking to do more with less, the newest Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor can help drive data center efficiencies and reduce complexities with innovations that offer superior virtualization performance and increased performance-per-watt.

The enhanced AMD Opteron processor represents the most dramatic performance and performance-per-watt increases for AMD products since the introduction of the world’s first x86 dual-core processors by AMD nearly four years ago. Simply put, the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor is the right technology at the right time.