AMD has officially introduced processors Opteron A1100 and the first 64-bit ARM system type. The new solution is a major step forward in the direction of deployment of ARM systems for servers and data centers.
Two years ago, we wrote about the developer platform release based on the Opteron A1100 processor, а теперь они попали в официальное предложения производителя. So it's well thought-out operation, which allowed AMD to ensure a smooth entry into the market of ARM processors.
Processors Opteron A1100 is a type of ARM SoC system. In one system contains up to 8 cores ARM Cortex A57, to 4 MB cache in the second level (L2), 8 MB of shared cache in the third level (L3) and 2-channel DDR3 memory controllers and DDR4, support UDIMM modules, RDIMM и SO-DIMM ECC. On attention also deserves the integration of two network controllers 10 GbE.
The use of ARM chips it possible to obtain sufficient performance with regard to energy efficiency, and companies that have plans to introduce new solutions, can expect to reduce total cost of. Производитель заявляет также про удлиненный срок службы платформы – даже 10-летнюю поддержку.
As we have already mentioned, since the release of the development platform, work continued on the introduction of ARM chips to the market of servers and data centers. AMD took for cooperation with the leaders of server systems: Red Hat и SUSE, software vendors: Linaro, as well as equipment manufacturers: Cas-well, Silver Lining Systems и 96 boards. As a result, we can expect not only to improve the ecosystem, but also the premiere of the introduction of ready-made hardware solutions with the new Opteron A1100 systems (in particular, SoftIron Overdrive3000 system and data center company BeaconWorks).
A source: AMD
