AMD Unveils 64-Bit ARM-Based Opteron A1100 System On Chip With Integrated 10GbE (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: AMD is adding a new family of Opterons to its enterprise processor line-up today called the Opteron A1100 series. Unlike AMD's previous enterprise offerings, however, these new additions are packing ARM-based processor cores, not the X86 cores AMD has been producing for years. The Opteron A1100 series is designed for a variety of use cases and applications, including networking, storage, dense and power-efficient web serving, and 64-bit ARM software development. The new family was formerly codenamed "Seattle" and it represents the first 64-bit ARM Cortex-A57-based platform from AMD. AMD Opteron A1100 Series chips will pack up to eight 64-bit ARM Cortex-A57 cores with up to 4MB of shared Level 2 and 8MB of shared Level 3 cache. They offer two 64-bit DDR3/DDR4 memory channels supporting speeds up to 1866 MHz with ECC and capacities up to 128GB, dual integrated 10Gb Ethernet network connections, 8-lanes of PCI-Express Gen 3 connectivity, and 14 SATA III ports. AMD is shipping to a number of software and hardware partners now with development systems already available.

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Only X8 pci-e?

[Joe_Dragon]

Only X8 pci-e?

At least they have dual 10-gige but come on give at least x16 pci-e even if you need to cut down the sata links.

Decent specs.. but

[wbr1]

Hopefully the sales of this will be good enough for them to push the Zen core chips this year. If they come out as expected, they could be a great chip. I have several Bulldozer based machines, and when built they were a good balance of performance for price, but no more. They are really starting to show their age. They have always been spanked by i5 and above Intels, and as new intels continue to come out, prices on one or 2 generation back intels get better and the price difference ceases to be an issue.

So, please AMD, I want to be a fan, give us a good CPU again!