Opteron processors occupy an important place on the market for corporate solutions. Chipset for such systems, besides NVIDIA, are released by Broadcom. However, with the existing chipset , the k10 technology is limited by the chipset bus. Motherboard with socket 1207 do not support hyperTransport 3.0.
According to associate , AMD promises to remove this limitation in the prepared for the release four core processors opteron (Shanghai), where the bus speed is increased to 5200 MT/s. The corresponding development was conducted by NVIDIA, and it was explained by AMD .
SS7100 chip support the hyperTransport 3.0 (5200 MT/s) and PCI-Express 2.0 , and also the I/O memory management unit (IOMMU). The appearance of indicated chipset will radically increase the effectiveness of virtualization due to the improved connection between the processors and direct exchange between the processors and devices. Furthermore, IOMMU will increase the safety degree due to averting of unauthorized devices access to the memory .
According to available data, the mentioned chipset will be released simultaneously with the six-core processor AMD opteron (code name Istanbul). Related Products :
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