By David Worthington May 15, 2009
AMD and Microsoft are working together to improve the performance of virtualized Windows applications. Microsoft has had input into the development of AMD’s upcoming “Istanbul” processor, which is due to ship in June. AMD says that Istanbul, a six-core processor, will provide near native virtualization performance with better memory and I/O performance than earlier chips. The processor uses Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI) technology for memory management. The companies had worked closely as AMD developed RVI, which manages memory for hypervisors at the hardware level, said Jeff Woolsey, principal program manager in Windows Server for Hyper-V at Microsoft, in an interview Wednesday at Microsoft TechEd. RVI was added to AMD's Opteron processors in 2007.
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