AMD's 16-core Opteron chips arrive after wait

"The 6200 is targeted at actually scalable applications, things that have a lot of threads," just as databases, cloud and high-performance computing, Fruehe said.

The processors are for heavily threaded

The processors are for heavily threaded and virtualized server environments, Fruehe said. Linux and Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 operating systems are tuned to take advantage of 16 cores, and more instances of virtual machines can be created to handle transactions, Fruehe said.

The Bulldozer architecture mixes the CPU with integer units and a shared floating point unit so more operations can be executed per clock cycle during drawing lower power. Other chip improvements include Turbo Core innovation, which can increase clock speed by up to 500MHz across all cores and up to 1GHz on some cores depending on the performance required.

AMD in recent months restructured its management, and new CEO Rory Read has said a top priority is to boost the high-margin commercial business. Read acknowledged that clients complained about AMD's inability to deliver products just in time, and one of his top priorities was to fix chip manufacturing, shipment and delivery issues.

Opteron's launch comes ahead of Intel's Xeon E5 server processors, which are already in production and expected to reach servers in the first half then year. Intel has around 400 design wins for Xeon E5, said Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel's Data Center Group, at a innovation conference before this week.

The things like ARM

"When you look at some of the things like ARM, good research, nevertheless when you look at the server markets and the needs ... they are actually only hitting a small part of the market way down at the bottom where some of these things don't matter," Fruehe said.

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