AMD counters Intel with Opterons in all sizes

February 7th, 2007

“AMD has grown tired of hearing about Intel’s four-core Xeon wonders and so countered today with some faster Opterons and some lower-voltage ones. If you can’t beat them with cores, beat them with variety. The little chip maker that could has ratcheted up the top speeds of its high-end, standard power Opteron chips from 2.4GHz to 2.8GHz. And that speed bump comes at no extra cost to the customer. Customers will now find the Model 8220, Model 2220 and Model 1220 chips shipping where previously AMD only offered so-called “SE” versions of Opteron with a higher-power envelope. The new chips eat up 95 watts at maximum load…” (Read full article here)

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