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AMD starts year, checks watch, hurries out Warsaw Opterons

Fresh 16-core bit fiddlers served up just in time for Open Compute summit

Chip fiddler AMD has delivered two new Opteron chips for data centers keen on getting their mits on low-cost servers built to Facebook's "Open Compute" design.

AMD's new 16-core Opteron 6370P

AMD's new Opteron 6370P – 16 cores, no waiting (click to enlarge)

The new Opteron 6300 chips, code-named Warsaw, were announced by AMD on Wednesday, just in time for the kickoff of the Open Compute Summit in San Jose on February the 28th.

These bit-crunchers come with the new "Piledriver" core, which succeeds AMD's Bulldozer and provides various upgrades.

The 12-core 6338P has a frequency of 2.3GHz and a Turbo CORE frequency of 2.8GHz with a power draw of 99W, and its bigger sibling the 16-core 6370P has a frequency of 2GHz and goes up to 2.5GHz with Turbo CORE.

Both chips support quad channel unbuffered (much like typical RAM) or registered (more stable but with a slight speed penalty) DDR3 RAM, and also support ULV and LRDIMM memory.

"The Opteron 6338P and 6370P processors are server CPUs optimized to deliver improved performance per-watt for virtualized private cloud deployments with less power and at lower cost points," said general manager of AMD's server business unit, Suresh Gopalakrishnan, in a canned statement.

"With the continued move to virtualized environments for more efficient server utilization, more and more workloads are limited by memory capacity and I/O bandwidth."

The new chips are available immediately through system integrators Penguin and Avnet at prices of $377 for the 6338P and $598 for the 6370P. ®

The 12- and 16-core 32nm chips are socket and software compatible with their predecessors in the Opteron 6300 series, AMD said. ®

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