By Damon Poeter, Jul. 13, 2009
Advanced Micro Devices is pitching the consistency of feature sets throughout its new six-core Opteron server chip lineup as the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company makes a run at market leader Intel's overall dominance in microprocessors. "Our competitor does a great job of de-featuring the product line as you move down the stack," said John Fruehe, AMD's director of business development for server/workstation products, tongue firmly in cheek as he introduced five additions to AMD's growing family of 45-nanometer, six-core Opteron server processors code-named Istanbul on Monday. The new six-cores include three "highly efficient" or HE processors in two-, four- or eight-socket flavors, with average power draws of just 55 watts, and a pair of 105-watt "special edition" or SE chips that forgo thermal concerns for raw power. All five of the new Istanbul parts feature AMD's full array of tools, including Rapid Virtualization Indexing, Tagged TLB, Extended Migration, Smart Fetch, Power Capping and CoolCore.
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