AMD unfolds Its Future Roadmap with New Server Innovations

To meet the requirements of the fast-growing data center and cloud computing workloads, AMD has disclosed its strategy and roadmap to recapture market share in enterprise and data center servers. AMD has announced to unveil the innovative products which will address key technologies. 

In addition, AMD has revealed the details of its 2014 server portfolio, including best-in-class Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), two- and four-socket CPUs, and details on what it expects to be the industry’s premier ARM server processor. AMD will also launch the Opteron X-series processor, code-named “Kyoto” designed for small-core server market. It is further believed that these forthcoming AMD Opteron processors will bring important innovations to the rapidly-changing compute market, including integrated CPU and GPU compute (APU.

Andrew Feldman, General Manager of Server Business Unit, AMD, said, Our strategy is to differentiate ourselves by using our unique IP to build server processors that are particularly well matched to a target workload and thereby drive down the total cost of owning servers. This strategy unfolds across both the enterprise and data centers and includes leveraging our graphics processing capabilities and embracing both x86 and ARM instruction sets. AMD led the world in the transition to multicore processors and 64-bit computing, and we intend to do it again with our next-generation AMD Opteron families.

In 2014, AMD will introduce a range of ARM server CPU. It will include 64-bit CPU code named “Seattle” and APU code-named “Berlin”. The third processor to be introduced is code-named “Warsaw”, AMD’s next-generation 2P/4P offering.