AMD Announces Support for Upcoming AMD Opteron 6000 Series Platform
Numerous "Magny-Cours" processor-based motherboards and server platforms are ready for Q1 launch
17 March 2010 Source: www.amd.com
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced a robust lineup of forthcoming motherboard and channel products for the soon-to-be available AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform.
This platform is based on the new AMD Opteron 6100 Series processor (code-named "Magny-Cours") and the AMD SR5690 chipset and will bring the world's first 8- and 12-core x86 processors to the market.
"Our industry partners are ready to showcase the advantages of AMD's new Direct Connect Architecture 2.0," said Patrick Patla, vice president and general manager, Server and Embedded Divisions, AMD. "The additional performance enabled with more cores, more memory channels and more features is a value their customers are eager to put to work."
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