AMD sees a flicker of hope
By Sylvie Barak: Wednesday, 16 April 2008
AMD said Dell is now offering five quad-core Opteron server platforms. The long-awaited chip has also finally received VMware certification. Dell coming on board and shoving Barcelona into its offerings, is good news for AMD, bringing the overall number of OEM AMD quad-core systems to 13. Dell’s website says its Poweredge servers are now chock filled with Barcelona. It has bunged the quad-core Opterons into its Poweredge SC1435, 2970, M605 blade server and 6950 platforms, not to mention in the Poweredge T605 tower server. With VMware completing its qualification of quad-core Opterons, AMD wants to become more of a data centre player in virtualised environments. Ever the optimist, Randy Allen, AMD server and workstation vice president, noted that Dell’s new Barcelona offerings, in combination with VMware’s qualification, " are important milestones for business customers looking for an ideal platform for virtualisation”. Better late than never, admittedly.
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