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The Opteron A-Series of CPUs is the best evidence

AMD finally puts its hat where its mouth is

The first AMD ARM chip in the last three years and is based on Cortex-A57 64-bit cores

This is the first ARM Cortex-A57-based server platform for software developers

Market availability scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2014

This should open up new options for companies seeking to upgrade their IT environments

Will allow software makers to create applications that can properly use ARMv8 architecture

This is the result of the product plans announced all the way back in 2012

They are called Opteron 6338P and 6370P and have prices of as low as $377 / €377

Produced on 32 nm technology, they have 99W TDPs and 2.2/2.5 GHz clocks

Company says it's the biggest market disruption since 2003

The chip will be sold to makers of single-socket workstations

There are two of them, both quad-core models with reduced TDPs

Workstation and server makers can breathe a sigh of relief

The hardware combination has only the essentials, but can behave like a building block

They are server units based on the Piledriver architecture

Abu Dhabi, Seoul and Delhi last for two more years