AMD Introduces its First ARM Processor

AMD Introduces its First ARM Processor | AMD announced plans to make the server CPU based on ARM in 2012 ago. Now, the plan has begun to happen with the announcement of "Seattle", of the company's first CPU-based ARM.  This blog about Information Technology and The Latest Gadgets.

Quoted from ZDNet, Seattle is a series of processors for the server that will have an official name Opteron A Series. The first models of this product line is the Opteron A1100 is equipped with 4 or 8 cores ARM Cortex-A57. The core architecture brings 64-bit and run at speeds up to 2 GHz.

AMD's new chips will also include a cache of 4 MB of level 2 and level 3 of 8 MB. Support DDR3 and DDR4 memory cover, with a capacity of up to 128 GB.

Connectivity including eight owned version 3.0 PCIe lanes, eight SATA 3 ports, and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet port speed. There is also a search for cryptography and compression. A series Opteron power consumption referred to only about 25 watts.

Corporate vice president and general manager of AMD's server business unit Andrew Feldman said that "Seattle" not only marks the company's commitment in the ARM ecosystem in the server environment, but also the beginning of a new era.

"We pulled ahead in the ARM community," said Feldman. He added that the ARM-based CPUs will play an important role in the data center of the future, with up to a quarter master server market share by 2019.

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