AMD Opteron™ Processor Powers

Highlights of the Press Release:

• New servers from AMD and Sun drive Linux and Solaris applications
• The AMD Opteron™ processor will power the Sun Fire™ V20z server, the first in a family of AMD Opteron processor-based products from Sun Microsystems.
• The Sun Fire V20z is the first server to come out of a strategic alliance announced by AMD and Sun less than three months ago, and will give customers industry-leading performance in the Solaris Operating System or Linux environment.

The AMD Opteron processor and AMD64 technology:

• designed to deliver high-performance solutions for today’s most demanding enterprise applications
• provides leading-edge performance for both 32-bit and 64-bit computing
• supported by Windows, Solaris and Linux.
• gives customers a simplified platform for their application needs.
• continues to gain wide-ranging acceptance, with increased endorsements from
  • Fortune 1000 companies
  • the clustering and High Performance Computing arena
  • database computing and workstation customers

On AMD's partnership with Sun:

• “The AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire server gives enterprise customers the power of choice. AMD has delivered high performance 32-bit and high performance 64-bit computing in X86 architectures. In addition to the high-performance 32-bit computing and powerful 64-bit computing for AMD64 technology, the Sun Fire server gives enterprise customers their choice of running the Solaris Operating System or Linux on the Sun Java Enterprise System. With the introduction of Sun-based solutions, the number applications available to the enterprise increased dramatically.” -- Dirk Meyer, senior vice president, Computation Products Group, AMD
• “The Sun Fire V20z server is the first in a complete family of AMD Opteron processor-based systems from Sun which will feature Solaris, Linux and the Java Enterprise System. We plan to introduce a broad set of enterprise servers based on the AMD Opteron processor. Sun's collaboration with AMD represents a response to the increasing customer demand for x86 solutions that are 32-bit and 64-bit capable and deliver maximum performance.” -- Neil Knox, executive vice president, Volume Systems Products, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  

  
  The original press release can be found here.