September 27, 2005

AMD INTRO'S THREE NEW DUAL-CORE OPTERON PROCESSORS

The Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 880 for up to eight-way, 16-core enterprise-class servers and Model 280 for high performance dual-processor workstations and servers are immediately available. Model 180 for one-processor, two-core servers and workstations is expected to be available within 30 days.

The AMD64 processor platform is considered a standard for 64-bit computing, with support from more than 1,300 applications from over 300 software vendors and open-source software organizations.

The Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 880 is priced at $2,649 in 1,000-unit quantities and the Model 280 is priced at $1,299 in 1,000-unit quantities. The Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 180, for single-processor workstations and servers will be priced at $799 in 1,000-unit quantities. With the addition of the new Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor models, the prices of two dual-core processor models within each series overlap with current single-core processors, making the shift to dual-core technology an easy decision for customers.

Back in August, AMD challenged Intel to a Dual-Core Duel to evaluate workloads and power consumption. AMD's duel would be a live, public performance evaluation between server platforms based on the highest-performing Dual-Core AMD Opteron 800 Series or 200 Series processors and the corresponding Intel x86 server processors that are commercially available in volume. AMD says Intel has not responded to the challenge.