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High performance technology solutions

AMD is the customer-centric innovation company--a processing powerhouse that offers smarter choices for its customers and makes technology more accessible to the world. AMD is focused on best meeting the needs of leading computing, wireless and consumer electronics companies to help them deliver high-performance, energy-efficient and visually realistic solutions.

AMD based platforms are available by all major OEM partners as well as numerous whitebox, channel partners and distributors worldwide. The processor of choice for server based platforms is the AMD Opteron^TM Processor with Direct Connect Architecture.

Introducing multi-core AMD Opteron processors with native multi-core designs.

Whether you're searching for single, dual or quad-core processors, AMD has a true multi-core design. Only AMD offers the native multi-core design. And each AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture delivers outstanding performance, optimal virtualization, enhanced power efficiency, and low TCO - all within a consistent footprint, and power and thermal envelopes.

Why AMD Opteron^TM Processors over the competitor?

• Enhanced Power Efficiency
  Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are the most power efficient server CPUs we've ever produced, thanks to Enhanced AMD PowerNow!^TM technology and the addition of innovative CoolCore^TM Technology. These innovations are designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), data center power needs, and cooling costs by lowering the energy consumption of your IT infrastructure.
• Optimal Virtualization
  Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect Architecture enable industry leading virtualization platform efficiency. Featuring AMD Virtualization^TM (AMD-V^TM) technology with Rapid Virtualization Indexing, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors can accelerate the performance of virtualized applications and improve efficiency of switching among virtual machines - so customers can host more virtual machines and users per system to maximize the consolidation and power saving benefits of virtualization.
• Investment Protection
  By leveraging AMD's Common Core Strategy and Same Socket Technology, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are designed to minimize changes to your software and data center infrastructure to protect your IT investment and simplify IT management. AMD plans include a stable consistent roadmap and well-timed transitions to help decrease your IT TCO.
• Outstanding Performance
  Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are designed for optimum multi-threaded application performance. We start with a native quad-core design - featuring four cores on a single die for more efficient data sharing - and add an enhanced cache structure and integrated memory controller designed to sustain multi-threaded application throughput. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors provide outstanding processing power and can increase performance-per-watt to improve IT responsiveness while maintaining costs.

  AMD Opteron processors enable stable, long-term solutions with industry-leading performance and performance-per-watt to simplify your IT management - now and in the future. You'll experience the same benefits with the AMD dual-core processors as well - just less power on each core.

  To find out more about the feature/benefits and technical details, visit AMD Opteron Processors.

Why Red Hat and AMD? It's A Strong Relationship

AMD and Red Hat are determined to bring real value to our customers. The latest Red Hat open source software, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.1 and JBoss® Enterprise Application Server, coupled with Quad-Core AMD Opteron^TM processors, provide endless solution possibilities.

AMD performance improvements on multi-threaded applications plus integrated AMD-Virtualization^TM offer a solid solution platform to all customers. These improvements demonstrate what both companies are trying to deliver to the market.

The Solution? Red Hat and AMD Are Even Better Together.

AMD and Red Hat let customers optimize their software and hardware investments. Customers will experience:

• Enterprise-strength virtualization technology
• Smooth 64-bit migration path
• More processing in less space
• Less heat and power
• More performance-per-watt

Case Study

Discover why travel booking website wotif.com chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux over Microsoft (PDF 118KB).

Solutions Guide

Experience a stable and innovative Linux environment with AMD and Red Hat. Find out how AMD and Red Hat deliver enterprise-class functionality and stability (PDF 328KB) with AMD64 and Linux technology.