The Opteron processor, first revealed in 1999, represents the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company's best opportunity ever to sell chips to corporate customers and into the lucrative server market. The ...

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday rallied a new phalanx of Opteron processors for servers, on the same day that rival Intel also unveiled a battery of server chips. The chipmaker introduced the Opteron ...

With its Opteron server chip, underdog Advanced Micro Devices appears to have finally bet on a winner. Since introducing the 64-bit processor a year ago Thursday, AMD has been granted new access to ...

Twice the Performance and More Power-Efficient Than the Top Performing Intel(R) Atom(TM) Processor SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/29/13-- AMD (NYSE: AMD) today unveiled a new family of low power ...

As a followup to its flagship Opteron 6300 launch last month, AMD has just released several more Piledriver-based processors meant for the server room. One eight-core and two quad-core models are part ...

AMD on Monday launched several 12-core and 8-core server processors under its Opteron 6100 Series product family through its OEM and system builder partners. AMD said the Opteron 6100 chips address ...

Although both test systems have 24 execution units at their disposal, there is a significant difference in how AMD and Intel have implemented their workstation/server platforms. As these differences ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday will announce a new server based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Opteron processor, according to sources close to Sun. The server, called the Sun Fire V40z, will be ...

The April 22 launch of Opteron, AMD’s new 64-bit processor, was auspicious in many ways. At the time of its introduction, AMD revealed System Performance Evaluation and Transaction Processing ...

SuSE has released a version of Linux that's tuned for the Opteron processor, set to launch Tuesday, with rival Red Hat planning its own product for the fall. Operating system support is a crucial ...

AMD delivers two new Piledriver-based 32nm server processor families: the Opteron 3200 and the Opteron 4300 series. The Opteron 3300 promises up to 13 percent higher performance than the previous 3200 ...

The Opteron 6000-series marks the first major revision of the Opteron family for quite a few years, as AMD was keen to retain backwards compatibility with its earlier workstation/server processors.