AMD Introduces its First ARM Processor

AMD announced plans to make the server CPU based on ARM in 2012 ago . Now , the plan has begun to happen with the announcement of " Seattle " , of the company 's first CPU -based ARM .

Quoted from ZDNet , Wednesday ( 01/29/2014 ) , Seattle is a series of processors for the server that will have an official name Opteron A Series . The first models of this product line is the Opteron A1100 is equipped with 4 or 8 cores ARM Cortex - A57 . The core architecture brings 64 - bit and run at speeds up to 2 GHz .

AMD 's new chips will also include a cache of 4 MB of level 2 and level 3 of 8 MB . Support DDR3 and DDR4 memory cover , with a capacity of up to 128 GB .

Connectivity including eight owned version 3.0 PCIe lanes , eight SATA 3 ports , and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet port speed . There is also a search for cryptography and compression . A series Opteron power consumption referred to only about 25 watts .

Corporate vice president and general manager of AMD's server business unit Andrew Feldman said that " Seattle " not only marks the company 's commitment in the ARM ecosystem in the server environment , but also the beginning of a new era .

" We pulled ahead in the ARM community , " said Feldman . He added that the ARM -based CPUs will play an important role in the data center of the future, with up to a quarter master server market share by 2019 .