AMD Opteron™ Processor
AMD Opteron is the name for AMD's multi-way enterprise-class processors for servers and workstations. The AMD Opteron™ processor simplifies your business, minimizing integration complexity by giving you simultaneous 32- and 64-bit high performance computing.

• The AMD Opteron™ processor enables you to easily transition to 64-bit technology at your desired pace without sacrificing 32-bit performance.
• Rely on AMD Opteron™ multiprocessors to help provide a seamless integration with 64-bit applications.
• You can be assured the AMD Opteron™ processor can make your servers run smooth today and tomorrow.
• Dual Core Opterons offer more processing in less space for less dough.

Key Features Include:
X86-64 Technology
The AMD x86-64 architecture is an AMD innovation that extends x86, the industry's most widely supported instruction set, and is designed to enable 64-bit computing while remaining compatible with the existing x86 software infrastructure and industry experience.

AMD's 64-bit strategy allows the latest in processor innovation to work smoothly with the existing installed base of 32-bit applications and operating systems, while establishing an installed base of systems that are 64-bit capable.

AMD X86-64 Technology enables the industry to advance software development on all fronts, with x86 compatibility, while providing the capability of delivering 64-bit technology benefits.

AMD HyperTransport™ Technology
HyperTransport technology is a high-speed, low latency, point-to-point link designed to increase the communication speed between integrated circuits in computers, servers, embedded systems, and networking and telecommunications equipment up to 48 times faster than some existing technologies.

HyperTransport technology helps reduce the number of buses in a system, which can reduce system bottlenecks and enable today's faster microprocessors to use system memory more efficiently in high-end multiprocessor systems.

HyperTransport technology is designed to:

• Provide significantly more bandwidth than current technologies
• Use low-latency responses and low pin counts
• Maintain compatibility with legacy PC buses while being extensible to new SNA (Systems Network Architecture) buses.
• Appear transparent to operating systems and offer little impact on peripheral drivers.

HyperTransport technology was invented at AMD with contributions form industry partners and is managed and licensed by the HyperTransport Technology Consortium, a Texas non-profit corporation. The full specification and more information about HyperTransport technology can be found at HyperTransport.org.

* HyperTransport is a licensed trademark of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium.

Integrated DDR DRAM
As processor microarchitecture capabilities have advanced, one of the greatest performance limitations has become the system architecture.s ability to provide sufficient low-latency memory bandwidth to the processor core. The AMD Athlon™ 64 processor and the AMD Opteron™ processor directly addresses this bottleneck by integrating a DDR memory controller into the processor, revolutionizing the way x86-based processors access main memory. By running at the processor.s core frequency, an integrated memory controller greatly increases bandwidth directly available to the processor at significantly reduced latencies. The performance-enhancing effect is even more dramatic within an AMD Opteron multiprocessing environment, because each additional processor has its own memory controller thereby scaling over all memory bandwidth.

Features of Integrated DDR DRAM Memory Controller:

• Available memory bandwidth scales with the number of processors added
• 128-bit wide integrated DDR DRAM memory controller capable of supporting up to eight (8) registered DDR DIMMs per processor
• Available memory bandwidth up to 6.4GB/s (with PC3200 memory) per processor

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