Seriousness of their intentions to promote ARM architecture in the server segment, AMD has reported in January after the announcement of a formal series Opteron processors A1100 (Seattle) with 64-bit cores Cortex-A57.
Quarterly report conference, which set the tone for the entire news section is Saturday, AMD representatives preferred to talk about the importance of the servers and embedded solutions segment. Thin clients, digital signage and medical equipment - those segments of the market, which can be widely used embedded processors AMD. High density server solutions based on the plurality of chips with ARM-architecture - that's where Seattle will find application processors and similar AMD products .
AMD employees yesterday laconically reported that sample shipments Seattle started in the first quarter of this year, and the market they will appear in the fourth quarter of this year. All natural - server systems being prepared for production for much longer, especially if it is a relatively new segment of the market for AMD.