Advanced Micro Devices announced that it would look into low-power servers again. It launched Opteron 4200 and 6200 processors at an event in Beijing. During the SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle, Washington, it revealed its Opteron roadmap that includes low-end, single-socket server processor.
John Fruehe, director of product marketing for server and embedded products at AMD, said that the 1P market was stagnant two years ago. These servers would be replaced by cloud computing in small businesses.
He added that cloud customers are looking for the most data they can cram into their data centers to support their users. This is the reason why they are utilizing microservers. Intel defines microserver as a single socket machine with four memory slots and a flash or disk drive. It is used at the reallocation of server workloads.
To be competitive in the microserver market, it improved its Opteron server roadmap and launched the Opteron 3000 series. The first chip in the line would be called Zurich, which is based on the eight-core Valencia Opteron 4200 die.
The Zurich chip with have four, six or eight cores activated. It will be compatible with an AM3+ socket. IT features an ECC scrubbing on its DDR3 memory and have longer life cycles and broad server application and support.
