Opteron 4000 is AMD’s latest server platform. The processors of the family, Opteron 4100, was developed under the code name “Lisbon” and sports up to six cores tailored for cloud computing.
AMD says it has hit the sweet spot in terms of performance and cost efficiency with the new Opteron 4000 platform to satisfy the demands of the cloud, or other server solutions in multimedia and storage.
The AMD Opteron 4100 Series processor is ideal for custom-designed servers because it allows for smaller heat sinks, power supplies, and fans, as well as low voltage memory to help improve power efficiency. Depending on how the system will be used, customization also allows unnecessary, power-consuming features to be eliminated, further driving cost and power efficiency.
The Opteron 4100 processors builds on the same hexa-core Istanbul core AMD that launched with the Opteron 2400 series in 2008, but has been upgraded with a new C32 socket and support for C1E enhanced halt state, to reduce total power consumption.
Made with 45 nanometer technology Opteron 4100 series comes with four or six processor cores, and TDPs from 32 up to 75 watt for the top models.
The most remarkable is otherwise the prices that start at $99 and goes up to $698 in quantities of 1,000 units, which is close to nothing now that we’re talking server processors.
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