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This week AMD launched the new AMD Opteronâ„¢ EE processor, ushering in a new level of power efficiency.

Have you ever seen one of those movies where the heroes realize that they don’t have enough fuel to make it to their destination? In the mad panic they start throwing everything out of the vehicle to try to lighten up the load so they can get better fuel efficiency and hopefully make it to the finish line.

Yes, some people actually approach processor design that way. They build a big, fat die, and then as an afterthought, to get any efficient processor, they “dumb down” the design. Strip out features. Restrict the performance. Reduce the capabilities.

We don’t do this.

The new AMD Opteron EE processors have all the features and capabilities of our other processors. As a matter of fact, if you were to run the same benchmark on the 2.3GHz standard power, 2.3GHz HE and 2.3GHz EE, they will all perform exactly the same; except at the wall.

The HE will draw less power that the standard and the EE will draw even less than the HE.

How do we drive such low energy consumption without compromising features? It’s in the genes. A great silicon design, combined with a very well-behaved 45nm process allows us to yield enough ultra-efficient EE parts that we can build a business on it. 

Very cool, choosing the energy efficient processors, combining them with energy efficient power supplies, can help reduce the power requirements of your infrastructure significantly. It’s great to see AMD continuing to innovate their processors, I’m off to check out more, I wonder when they will be available in blade servers?

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