AMD today announced the development plan, which contains information about server processors, which will appear in the next year. The company intends to act on three fronts, providing customers with solutions that are suitable for both processor-intensive tasks, and for situations where the key requirement is energy efficiency.
In the first half of next year, the existing lines Opteron processors Opteron 6300 and 4300, including two to eight dual-core computing modules with micro Piledriver, will be updated with solutions codename Warsaw. New microarchitecture maintain compatibility with existing engineering infrastructure, but will be presented only in the 12 - and 16-core versions. For them, AMD promises better balance of performance and power consumption.
Opteron 3300 processors will be updated with processor code-named Berlin. These will be produced on 28 nm technology in a classical CPU (4 cores Steamroller), and as a hybrid solution, APU, supporting HUMA technology , which assumes uniform memory access heterogeneous cores.
But the gem of the lineup of server processors AMD 2014 sample solutions will be code-named Seattle. If their predecessors - Opteron X - combine core Jaguar and GCN, then in Seattle manufacturer refuses from x86-compatible architecture in favor of ARM. New items planned for the second half of 2014, will include 8 or 16 cores Cortex-A57 with a frequency greater than 2 GHz. Seattle will receive a memory controller that supports up to 128 GB of RAM, a built-in network controller 10 Gigabit Ethernet, specialized units (for encryption or data compression, for example), and a controller Freedom Fabric.
On the speed level Seattle 2-4 times outperform models Opteron X, with the first indicator of energy efficiency will be higher. In the first quarter 2014, AMD plans to begin shipping test samples of processors Seattle to customers. Related Products :
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