SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 2009--
At the ATCA Summit today, AMD (NYSE: AMD) is demonstrating its
latest advancements for helping improve the network performance
capability of industry-standard Advanced Telecommunications Computing
Architecture (ATCA) blade servers. Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, at
50 and 71W TDP, provide a high-performance, low-power platform for the
networking and telecommunications market. The new
AMD server chipset featuring PCI® Express 2.0 and HyperTransport™ 3
technology provides a complete solution with improved I/O capabilities
to increase performance over previous-generation platforms.
“The increased bandwidth offered by PCI Express® 2.0 is useful in
improving network data throughput when combined with an appropriate
increase in the number of CPUs or CPU cores to help accurately route the
additional traffic,” said Patrick Patla, vice president and general
manager, Server and Embedded Business, AMD. “The Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processor delivers this compute power and with 50W and 71W versions
available, is a great option for the 200W power budget of the ATCA
specification.”
“Our research shows the market for ATCA applications remains quite
strong, despite the downturn. This is in part due to the industry’s
shift from proprietary designs to interoperable standards and commercial
off the shelf building blocks,” said Erik Heikkila, Director, Embedded
Hardware and Systems, VDC Research. “Improvements to AMD’s blade
platform are a great example of this building block concept. Customers
who have implemented a previous AMD Opteron processor-based ATCA system
now have the option to further extend their design with an easy
upgrade.”¹
“With the new AMD embedded platform, we are able to deliver superior
performance on high-bandwidth networks and still maintain the strict
overall system power limit of the ATCA specification,” said Patrick
Welzien, vice president, Engineering, Diversified Technology, Inc. “Our
newest blade, the ATC6239,
features two 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors and by relying on
this scalable COTS platform, we’ve been able to extend the life of the
system and recognize cost efficiencies.”
Learn more about AMD’s numerous commercial embedded platforms for
networking and telecommunications, storage, digital signage, thin client
and point-of-sale systems at http://www.amd.com/embedded.
About AMD
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dedicated to collaborating with customers and technology partners to
ignite the next generation of computing and graphics solutions at work,
home and play. For more information, visit http://www.amd.com.
AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron, and combinations thereof are
trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. HyperTransport is a licensed
trademark of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. Other names are
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Source: Advanced Micro Devices
AMD Public Relations
Teresa Osborne, 512-633-8228
teresa.osborne@amd.com
