AMD Opteron to Debut April 22
Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will release its long-awaited Opteron 64-bit processor at an event April 22 in New York City.
The introduction of Opteron will follow the rollout of the Sunnyvale, Calif., company's Athlon XP 3000+ on Feb. 10, the company said on Friday. The Athlon 3200+ will be introduced in the middle of this year, AMD said. Both of those chips are based on the company's Barton core, which will feature a feature a faster 333MHz front-side bus.
Opteron is designed for servers and workstations and will compete with Intel Corp.'s 64-bit Itanium chips as well as its 32-bit Xeons. A key differentiator for AMD is that Opteron is backward compatible in that it can run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications. Because it is a different architecture, Itanium doesn't feature that backward compatibility.
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