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AMD and Key Industry Partners Welcome the AMD Opteron A1100 SoC to the 64-bit ARM Data Center Arena

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Launch Marks Era of Inno­va­ti­on, Choice and Sca­lable Per­for­mance in Ser­vers, Embedded Net­wor­king, and Sto­rage Applications 

Sun­ny­va­le, Cali­for­nia — Janu­ary 14, 2016 — AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) marks a major step towards deli­ve­ring choice and inno­va­ti­on in the data cen­ter with the launch of the AMD Opte­ron™ A1100 Sys­tem-on-Chip (SoC), form­er­ly code­na­med “Seat­tle”. Joint­ly with its soft­ware and hard­ware part­ners, AMD is acce­le­ra­ting time-to-deploy­ment of ARM®-based sys­tems and dri­ving for­ward eco­sys­tem sup­port for ARM in the data center.

“The eco­sys­tem for ARM in the data cen­ter is approa­ching an inflec­tion point and the addi­ti­on of AMD’s high-per­for­mance pro­ces­sor is ano­ther strong step for­ward for cus­to­mers loo­king for a data cen­ter-class ARM solu­ti­on,” said Scott Aylor, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Enter­pri­se Solu­ti­ons, AMD. “The macro trend of con­ver­gence bet­ween net­wor­king, sto­rage and ser­vers is an important cata­lyst in this evo­lu­ti­on. Cus­to­mers now have access to 64-bit ARM pro­ces­sors from the only sili­con pro­vi­der that also has deca­des of expe­ri­ence deli­ve­ring pro­fes­sio­nal enter­pri­se and embedded products.”

The AMD Opte­ron A1100 SoC repres­ents a key mile­stone for estab­li­shing ARM in the data cen­ter as well. “The AMD Opte­ron A1100 pro­ces­sor brings a new choice in sca­la­bi­li­ty across net­work infra­struc­tu­re and data cen­ters,” said Lak­sh­mi Man­dyam, direc­tor of ser­ver sys­tems and eco­sys­tems, ARM. “AMD brings reco­gni­zed exper­ti­se in the ser­ver and embedded mar­kets, making them an ide­al part­ner to deli­ver a 64-bit ARM pro­ces­sor with the impres­si­ve balan­ce of per­for­mance and power-effi­ci­en­cy to address an incre­asing­ly diver­se set of workloads.”

The AMD Opte­ron A1100 Series SoC is the first 64-bit ARM Cor­tex-A57-based plat­form from AMD. Uti­li­zing ARM Cor­tex-A57 pro­ces­sors with high-speed net­work and sto­rage con­nec­ti­vi­ty and out­stan­ding ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy, the AMD Opte­ron A1100 Series SoC deli­vers a balan­ced total cost of owner­ship for sto­rage, web and net­wor­king workloads.

AMD Opte­ron A1100 Series SoC specifications:

  • Up to eight ARM Cor­tex-A57 cores with 4MB shared Level 2 and 8MB of shared Level 3 cache
  • 2x 64-bit DDR3/DDR4 chan­nels sup­port­ing up to 1866 MHz with ECC
  • 2x 10Gb Ether­net net­work connectivity
  • 8‑lane PCI-Express® Gen 3
  • 14 SATA‑3 ports

The AMD Opte­ron A1100 SoC is powe­ring enter­pri­se-class sys­tems from Sof­tI­ron with its Overdrive3000 sys­tem for deve­lo­pers, as well as an upco­ming lin­e­up of Soft­ware Defi­ned Sto­rage solu­ti­ons taking advan­ta­ge of the processor’s rich fea­ture set.

“The secret of the AMD Opte­ron A1100 SoC’s appeal is not just the cores, it’s ever­y­thing around the cores,” said Nor­man Fraser, CEO of Sof­tI­ron. “If you’ve got an appli­ca­ti­on whe­re you need to move lar­ge amounts of data around quick­ly, you’re going to love it.”

AMD is also col­la­bo­ra­ting with Sil­ver Lining Solu­ti­ons (SLS) to inte­gra­te SLS’ fabric tech­no­lo­gy in inno­va­ti­ve den­se ser­ver designs fea­turing the Opte­ron A1100 Series, tar­ge­ted at strea­ming, web, and sto­rage workloads for cloud and hypers­ca­le dat­a­cen­ters. The SLS Fabric Inter­con­nect incor­po­ra­tes a low-laten­cy, ener­gy effi­ci­ent 60Gbps swit­ching fabric and is available as a PCI Express® expan­si­on card or a stan­da­lo­ne ASIC for cus­tom ser­ver applications.

“We are very exci­ted about working with AMD to bring power effi­ci­ent fabric-based com­pu­ting to mar­ket,” said Dr. Ping-Kank Hsi­ung, Mana­ging Direc­tor of Sil­ver Lining Sys­tems. “Com­bi­ning the effi­ci­ent AMD Opte­ron A1100 pro­ces­sor with our uni­que fabric will help dri­ve down cos­ts and power requi­re­ments of hyper sca­le com­pu­ting and storage.”

In addi­ti­on to sili­con inno­va­ti­on, AMD has been instru­men­tal in sup­port­ing the 64-bit ARM soft­ware eco­sys­tem, a cri­ti­cal com­po­nent to any new pro­ces­sor, and has been working clo­se­ly with Enter­pri­se Linux® lea­ders Red Hat and SUSE on ope­ra­ting sys­tem and appli­ca­ti­on support.

“Red Hat and AMD share a visi­on of buil­ding an open, stan­dards-based soft­ware eco­sys­tem for high­ly con­ver­ged designs based on 64-bit ARM archi­tec­tu­re. As one of the first par­ti­ci­pan­ts in Red Hat’s ARM Part­ner Ear­ly Access Pro­gram, AMD has been instru­men­tal in the test­ing and port­ing of the world’s lea­ding enter­pri­se Linux plat­form to 64-bit ARM archi­tec­tu­re”, said Ran­ga Rang­a­cha­ri, vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Sto­rage, Red Hat. “The arri­val of the AMD Opte­ron A1100 SoC repres­ents a major mile­stone to the eco­sys­tem inte­res­ted in dri­ving con­ver­ged infra­struc­tu­re for sto­rage, net­wor­king, and compute.”

The AMD Opte­ron A1100 SoC has been in advan­ced deve­lo­p­ment with tech­no­lo­gy part­ners and cus­to­mers for seve­ral quar­ters and is available in mass pro­duc­tion quan­ti­ties today.

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