Advanced Micro Devices says Opteron, its forthcoming rival to Intel's Itanium 2 chip, is already catching on in the PC industry.
AMD, which will introduce the processor early next year, demonstrated on Monday a four-way server built around a quartet of Opterons and announced a host of supporting software and components such as chipsets from Nvidia. The demo and news came at the Computex trade show in Taiwan.
The four-way server and the new Opteron-friendly products are the latest milestones along AMD's road to introducing its Hammer family of processors.
More than just another line of server and desktop chips, the Hammer family is the main focus of AMD's future ambitions. The Opteron will give AMD greater performance and will reduce manufacturing costs, the company said. These two features will help AMD continue to compete with bitter rival Intel.
News source: Cnet
