AMD Announces server Strategy and roadmap X86, ARM dual architecture

AMD today unveiled its strategy and roadmap to recapture the market share of enterprise and datacenter servers through innovative products that meet the requirements of the fastest growing data center and cloud computing applications.

In addition, AMD has announced details of the 2014 server portfolio, including accelerated Processor (APU), dual and four-way CPUs, and product details that the company is expected to become the industry's leading arm server processor. This is the AMD after the announcement code-named "Kyoto" AMD Opteron x series of processors after the full listing of another force. AMD Opteron x series processors occupy the dominant position in the small nuclear server market in terms of performance benchmarks. The upcoming AMD Opteron processors bring important innovations to a rapidly changing computing market, including integrated CPU and GPU computing (APU), a high number of ARM servers for high-density computing in data centers, and significant improvements in performance and total cost per dollar per watt.

"Our strategy is to leverage our unique intellectual property to create a server processor that matches the target application, reducing the total cost of server ownership and making us stand out in the marketplace," said Andrew Feldman, general manager of AMD Server division. This strategy is being developed in the enterprise and data center areas, including leveraging our graphics capabilities and containing x86 and arm instruction sets. "AMD has led the world towards multi-core processors and 64-bit computing," he said. We are interested in the next generation of AMD Opteron series products, once again in the forefront of the world. ”

2014, AMD will rely on industry-class arm server CPU, set up a high efficiency server computing new benchmark. The 64-bit CPU named Seattle (Seattle) is ARM cortex? Based on the-a57 kernel, it is expected to bring similar leading throughput and establish a new benchmark for performance per watt. AMD will also launch the "Berlin (Berlin)" of the best of the same APU. "Berlin" is a x86 CPU and APU based on the "steamroller" new generation of cores. The "Berlin" designed to double the performance of the newly launched "Kyoto" processors will bring extraordinary per-watt computing performance to achieve ultra-high rack density. Today's third processor code-named "Warsaw (Warsaw)" is the next generation of AMD 2p/4p products. This processor product is optimized to cope with the huge virtualization applications in the enterprise environment, including more complex data analysis, XSQL and traditional database computing requirements. Compared with the current AMD Opteron 6300 series, "Warsaw" has significantly improved performance per watt.

Seattle:

Seattle will be the industry's only 64-bit ARM Server system-level chip provided by recognized server processor vendors. "Seattle" is a 8-core and 16-core CPU based on the arm cortex-a57 kernel, which is expected to run more than 2 GHz. The Seattle processor's performance is expected to be 2-4 times that of AMD's recently released AMD Opteron X-series processors, with a significant increase in computing power per watt. Seattle has 128GB DRAM support, improved efficiency, reduced load, caliber encryption, and the ability to compress and integrate traditional networks, including 10Gb Ethernet. This will be the first AMD to integrate AMD's advanced freedom fabric technology for high density computing systems directly onto the chip's processor products. AMD plans to sample "Seattle" in the first quarter of 2014, with mass production starting in the second half of 2014.

"Berlin":

"Berlin" is a x86 based processor that can be used as a CPU or APU. The processor has four next-generation "steamroller" cores, 1 billion times per watt floating-point speed is nearly 8 times times the current AMD Opteron 6386SE processor. This will be the first server APU built on the basis of the AMD Revolutionary Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA). The HSA enables unified memory addressing and access to CPUs and GPU, making programming as simple as C + +. "Berlin" will bring extraordinary performance per watt, thus achieving ultra-high rack density. "Berlin" will be listed in the first half of 2014.

"Warsaw":

"Warsaw" is an enterprise server CPU optimized designed to deliver unmatched performance and total cost of ownership for dual and four-way servers. Designed for enterprise applications, the CPU can further reduce the cost of owning the server, while achieving seamless migration from the AMD Opteron 6300 series, with the same software certification, making it the ideal choice for AMD Open 3.0 servers. The AMD Open 3.0 server is the industry's most cost-effective open computing platform. "Warsaw" will be listed in the first quarter of 2014.