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We may never know who is or isn’t interested in AMD’s new line of AMD claims that any potential “cloud”Ĭustomers they have with custom built designs have to remain a secret so Have not yet seen design wins from AMD or its partners on this front and Way – the pricing scheme they have worked up demands high volume. Obviously the processor teams at AMD are getting some advice from the graphics division acquired during the ATI merger and I think this is the right move to make based on the technology available today.ĪMD definitely needs the Opteron 4100-series to be a success in a big By under cutting Intel so drastically on pricing AMD is obviously will to sacrifice short term profits for long term market share and mind share of customers. With the targeting of the cloud computing infrastructure and the dramatic lowering of prices on the Opteron 4100 series, AMD is making a bold move against the largest segment of the server market. The future is always laid out at AMD and that is something businesses can count on – AMD is known to be very stable in their socket and platform options and the upcoming Bulldozer-based designs coming in 2011 will be socket-compatible with servers purchased based on the Magny-Cours and Lisbon processors enabling customers to plan for the future and predict costs. Instead, AMD is clearly targeting power efficiency with “good enough” top level performance in order to address the largest possible server segments available, all without removing scalability or key features. To design a CPU that could do both (have fantastic power efficiency and the best performance available) would mean you would have to sacrifice on both ends of the scale.
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That of course doesn’t mean that cloud servers don’t need to perform but it seems obvious that when you are operating 10,000 servers that are not often running under a full load the need to be scalable from a power perspective is significantly more important.ĪMD puts it like this: cloud servers tend to operate at 10-20% of their top performance capacity at any given time and only need to be able to “spike” CPU performance at specific instances. According to AMD the demand of raw performance is much less critical to the success of a machine designed to serve the cloud than power efficiency, density and even core scalability. In this diagram, the yellow diamonds represent “cloud server workloads” while the gray circles are for our more standard server workloads such as databases, etc. AMD claims that this market consists of buyers looking to expand on the cloud infrastructure that is dominating the news headlines today as well as the small-and-medium businesses (SMB) that are once again growing across the world. Usually consisting of two and four socket machines, the Opteron 6000 parts were met with quite a bit of criticism being the first to a 12-core offering though they were usurped by much more expensive Intel Xeon processors not long after.Īfter meeting with AMD in their Austin offices early in the spring it became apparent to me that while AMD was taking that market very seriously and still has ambitions to dominate in that field, the real target was becoming apparent: the mid-range 1-2P servers that dominate the landscape in volume.
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Over the past 6 months or so we have seen AMD’s server strategy for the next few years come to fruition starting with the release of the Opteron 6000 series of processors that featured both 8-core and 12-core units configured for the traditional high end server space. Can a $99 server processor coupled with power-per-core efficiency spell success for AMD in the cloud computing infrastructure? Can can the new FireStream parts put a dent in NVIDIA’s Tesla lineup? The new Opteron 4100-series of processors takes the Lisbon core and lowers price to the point of absurdity. Can a server processor coupled with power-per-core efficiency spell success for AMD in the cloud computing infrastructure? Can can the new FireStream parts put a dent in NVIDIA’s Tesla lineup?ĪMD gets more aggressive in the server market AMD is announcing a pair of new product lines today to address a couple of server markets. AMD is announcing a pair of new product lines today to address a couple of server markets.AMD gets more aggressive in the server market.