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Talking about AMD’s Opteron processors
Advanced Micro Devices is launching two new versions of its chips with six brains today. The AMD Opteron HE and SE server microprocessors have six cores, or processors, on a single chip. The introduction is the latest volley in the ongoing tennis match AMD is playing with Intel.
With these two new versions, AMD is spreading out its product line and executing better. It launched its first six-core chip on June 1, about six months ahead of schedule. Now it’s adding more flavors for customers who have slightly different needs. These ones offer 18 percent better performance per watt of power than the company’s previous models.
But the market remains extremely competitive. Analysts note that Intel’s Nehalem family of server processors has been extremely well received this year. AMD has to keep on the treadmill just to make sure that it doesn’t lose ground to the world’s biggest chip maker.
It will be interesting to see how the new AMD chips perform, anything we can do to improve performance and manage or reduce the energy footprint has to be a good thing in terms of energy efficiency and extends the possibilities of the platform.
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I will have to admit that I'm an AMD fan boy, but it does seem that lately they have been getting kicked around by Intel's superior chips more than not.