Showing posts with label Processors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Processors. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

AMD to announce new energy efficient Athlon II X2 processors

Reportedly, AMD is planning to announce couple of new CPUs based on energy efficient design. The new processors are all dual core versions of Athlon II X2 family. The new processors are Athlon II X2 250e (3GHz) and 245e (2.9GHz).


In addition, AMD will also introduce two new single-core Sempron chips based on Sargas core.

The Sempron 145 is clocked at 2.7GHz. No word on clock speed of Sempron 180.

All the processors have 45W of TDP.
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AMD Opteron 6000 12-core processors launched

Advanced Micro Devices today announced a new breakthrough product -- the Opteron 6000 series of processors. Coming in 8-core and 12-core variants, the new processor family is targeted towards servers. According to AMD, its new server processor series provides workload-specific performance, power efficiency, and overall value - while delivering more cores and more memory for less money.


Features:

* The industry’s only 8- and 12-core server processors performing at up to two times the level of AMD’s previous generation 6-core processors, including an 88 percent increase in integer performance and a 119 percent increase in floating point performance.
* Enhanced integrated memory controller supporting four channels of DDR3 memory for up to a 2.5x improvement in overall memory bandwidth.
* Thirty-three percent more memory channels per processor than competitive 2P solutions.
* 50% higher DIMM capacity compared to previous generations, with up to 12 per processor, increasing the available memory overall and improving virtualization, database and HPC applications.
* Significant new power management features including a C1E power state to conserve energy when idle, the Advanced Platform Management Link allowing APML-enabled platforms to be remotely monitored for power and cooling, and AMD CoolSpeed technology, which automatically reduces p-states if a specified temperature limit is exceeded.
* A wide range of power and performance options with no compromise on the available feature sets.
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