IBM's Power7 CPU to go into Opteron motherboard.

[zekrahminator]

AMD has won yet another partner in the processor war. AMD has recently opened the Opteron to other companies, so that they can stick their CPU's inside Opteron motherboards, or vice versa. All a company has to do is buy a license, which Sun, IBM, Cray and Fujitsu have already done. IBM is the first company to announce that they will put their Power7 CPU's into an Opteron motherboard in an effort to cut costs.

By playing off Opteron motherboards, IBM would enjoy some serious cost savings. It would no longer need to produce separate motherboards for its Unix server line. Some questions remain as to how well x86 motherboards will stack up against RISC boards in the high-end SMP server market. Although, experts interviewed for this story said that by the time Power7 arrives - possibly in 2009 - AMD should be able to churn out top-notch SMP systems.

Sun Microsystems has also announced similar plans for it's UltraSPARC and UltraSPARC T1 processors.

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[PVTCaboose1337]

WOOT! AMD will make a comeback yet!

 

[cdawall]

something tells me amd doesnt like to be in 2nd place for performance they are pulling out all the stops for research money

 

[EastCoasthandle]

Hmm, seem to me this is nothing more then a cost cutting idea, nothing more nothing less.

 

[jocksteeluk]

intel deserves the bed it made for itsself in the past, lets hope pc's are moving back to the days where it was one mainbord for all brands of cpu

 

[cdawall]

intel deserves the bed it made for itsself in the past, lets hope pc's are moving back to the days where it was one mainbord for all brands of cpu

now what would the issue i that be all cpu's on the same mobo that would make buying parts so much easier

 

[Dippyskoodlez]

Hmm, seem to me this is nothing more then a cost cutting idea, nothing more nothing less.

This opens up so many possabilitys... do you have to have 2 of the same CPU?

Perhaps an ultra sparc, power 7 and dual x86-64 opterons? That would be one VERY impressive server with virtualization running

You would have the processing power of a diual cpu opteron, power 7 and a sparc in the space of a quad CPU server board.

 

[XooM]

dippy, now that would be secks wouldn't it?

this bodes well for AMD platforms as a whole.

 

[bornfree]

Looks like AMD is on the ball

It looks to me like AMD is building a strong cooperative effort with OEMs and enterprise which can only pay dividends.

 

[-Thrilla-]

That is ill, lol, quad socket, 2x dual Opt + sparc and power 7