AMD bridges road to ARM with new low-power x86 server chips

May 29, 2013

Advanced Micro Devices had no plans to release low-power x86 server chips until the release of its ARM-based servers in 2014, but sagging server fortunes have changed the company’s direction. The company is introducing two low-power quad-core Opteron server chips called X2150 and X1150, which draw up to 11 watts of power and are targeted at microservers. The chips are based on the Jaguar core, which is already in PC processors and chips to be used in the Xbox and PlayStation 4 game consoles. The server chips, code-named Kyoto, are a late addition to company’s product roadmap. AMD started talking about Kyoto only in the last few months, and it will be an alternative to the company’s homegrown ARM chips due next year. AMD’s last server chip update came in November with the Opteron 6300 chips for multisocket servers. AMD said Kyoto chips are for low-power servers used in web hosting or cloud deployments. Kyoto will be in Hewlett-Packard’s Moonshot dense server, which can accommodate up to 45 Proliant cartridges in a 4.3U rack. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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