IBM Servers Feature New AMD Quad-Core Processors

November 14th, 2008

IBM on Thursday announced two blade servers that will feature the new quad-core Opteron Shanghai processor from Advanced Micro Devices. The announcement was synchronized with AMD’s release of the 45nm processor.Shanghai delivers up to 35 percent more performance with up to a 35 percent decrease in power consumption at idle than previous AMD processors. AMD promises its new Opteron product will drive data-center efficiencies and spur virtualization performance.

In concert with its OEM and solution-provider partners, AMD is addressing the need for enterprises to focus on the bottom line while giving them the innovations they need to build for the future, according to Randy Allen, senior vice president at AMD’s Computing Solutions Group.

“This 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,” Allen said.

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