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AMD Announces the Availability of AMD Opteron 64-bit ARM-based Developer Kits

Verfasst vonNero24

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — July 30, 2014 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced the imme­dia­te avai­la­bi­li­ty of the AMD Opte­ron™ A1100-Series deve­lo­per kit, which fea­tures AMD’s first 64-bit ARM®-based pro­ces­sor, code­na­med “Seat­tle.” AMD is the first com­pa­ny to pro­vi­de a stan­dard ARM Cortex®-A57- based ser­ver plat­form for soft­ware deve­lo­pers and inte­gra­tors. Soft­ware and hard­ware deve­lo­pers as well as ear­ly adop­ters in lar­ge dat­a­cen­ters are eli­gi­ble and can app­ly on AMD’s web­site.

“The jour­ney toward a more effi­ci­ent infra­struc­tu­re for lar­ge-sca­le dat­a­cen­ters is taking a major step for­ward today with broa­der avai­la­bi­li­ty of our AMD Opte­ron A1100-Series deve­lo­p­ment kit,” said Suresh Gopa­l­a­krish­n­an, gene­ral mana­ger and vice pre­si­dent, Ser­ver busi­ness unit, AMD.  “After suc­cessful­ly sam­pling to major eco­sys­tem part­ners such as firm­ware, OS, and tools pro­vi­ders, we are taking the next step in what will be a col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve effort across the indus­try to reim­agi­ne the dat­a­cen­ter based on the open busi­ness model of ARM innovation.”

With this announce­ment, AMD beco­mes the only pro­vi­der of 64-bit ARM ser­ver hard­ware with com­ple­te ARMv8 ins­truc­tion set sup­port to fos­ter the deve­lo­p­ment of the eco­sys­tem for effi­ci­ent sto­rage, Web appli­ca­ti­ons and hos­ting. AMD is the only pro­vi­der to offer the stan­dard ARM Cor­tex-A57 technology.

The AMD Opte­ron A1100 Series pro­ces­sor supports:

  • 4 and 8 ARM Cor­tex-A57 cores
  • Up to 4 MB of shared L2 and 8 MB of shared L3 cache
  • Con­fi­gura­ble dual DDR3 or DDR4 memo­ry chan­nels with ECC at up to 1866 MT/second
  • Up to 4 SODIMM, UDIMM or RDIMMs
  • 8 lanes of PCI-Express® Gen 3 I/O
  • 8 Seri­al ATA 3 ports
  • 2 10 Giga­bit Ether­net ports
  • ARM Trust­Zo­ne® tech­no­lo­gy for enhan­ced security
  • Cryp­to and data com­pres­si­on co-processors

The AMD Opte­ron A1100 deve­lo­p­ment kit is packa­ged in a microATX form fac­tor and includes:

  • An AMD Opte­ron A1100-Series pro­ces­sor with 4 cores
  • 2 Regis­tered DIMM with 16 GB of DDR3 DRAM
  • PCI Express® con­nec­tors con­fi­gura­ble as a sin­gle x8 or dual x4 ports
  • 8 Seri­al-ATA connectors
  • Com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty with stan­dard power supplies
  • Stan­dard UEFI boot environment
  • Linux envi­ron­ment based on Fedo­ra tech­no­lo­gy from the Red Hat-spon­so­red Fedo­ra community
  • Stan­dard Linux GNU tool chain, inclu­ding cross-deve­lo­p­ment version
  • Plat­form device drivers
  • Apa­che web ser­ver, MyS­QL data­ba­se engi­ne, and PHP scrip­ting lan­guage for deve­lo­ping robust Web ser­ving applications
  • Java 7 and Java 8 ver­si­ons to enable deve­lo­pers to work in a 64-bit ARM environment

Com­ple­te deve­lo­per kits are available for $2,999 USD.

Sup­port­ing Resources 

App­ly for the deve­lo­p­ment kit and learn more about the AMD Opte­ron A1100-Series processor

 About AMD 

AMD (NYSE: AMD) designs and inte­gra­tes tech­no­lo­gy that powers mil­li­ons of intel­li­gent devices, inclu­ding per­so­nal com­pu­ters, tablets, game con­so­les and cloud ser­vers that defi­ne the new era of sur­round com­pu­ting. AMD solu­ti­ons enable peo­p­le ever­y­whe­re to rea­li­ze the full poten­ti­al of their favo­ri­te devices and appli­ca­ti­ons to push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visit www.amd.com.

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