14 DAY TRIAL // While it has not yet released its next-generation enterprise processors for servers and workstations, Advanced Micro Devices doesn't intend to let much more time pass before it does just that.
November is turning out to be the period when AMD will make its next move. There is a high possibility that the company already has everything ironed out, but wants to make sure it doesn't have to compete with the spotlight of other devices.
We are referring to all the Intel-based notebooks, ultrabooks and tablets, as well as ARM-powered products, that the release of Windows 8 will bring forth on October 26. And there are convertible devices too.
According to MyDrivers, the middle of November is when AMD will release the first enterprise processors, for workstations and servers, based on the Piledriver architecture, the same architecture at the heart of Trinity APUs.
Thus, the ETA (estimated time of arrival) is the same as that of the Z-60 Hondo accelerated processing unit for tablets.
We are led to believe AMD will perform a massive update to the product line. New Opteron 6200, 4200, 6300 and 4300 should appear.
Out of those, nine will be ready for multi-socket operation (more than one CPU in a single system), all of them compatible with the AM3+ socket.
All nine have 16 MB of L3 cache memory and a TDP of 115 Watts, with two exceptions in regard to the latter: the Opteron 6366 HE (16-core, 1.8 GHz clock speed, 85W TDP) and 6386 SE (16-core, 2.8 GHz, 140W TDP).
Speaking of 16-core CPUs, there are three others: Opteron 6376 (2.3 GHz), 6378 (2.4 GHz) and 6380 (2.5 GHz).
Of the other five chips, two are 12-core units (Opteron 6344/6348, 2.6/2.8 GHz), two have 8 cores each (6320/6328, 2.8/3.2 GHz) and one has only 4 cores (3.5 GHz).
No prices are known so far, but that is understandable since builders of servers and data centers, or workstations, usually negotiate with chip suppliers over per-unit price when ordering large shipments.