14 DAY TRIAL // Tyan, one of the most well renowned server and workstation motherboard manufacturers, has just announced that it plans to introduce a new single-socket AMD Opteron 4100 C32 board, which was designed for cost-effective virtualization and cloud computing applications, during the upcoming AMD Server Summit.
The Opteron 4100-series processors, code-name Lisbon, are built using the 45nm fabrication process, come with either four or six processing cores and carry 6MB of L3 cache per processor.
Moving back to Tyan's motherbaord, this is based on the AMD SR5670 northbridge and the SP5100 southbridge and can support a wide series of C32 CPUs with a maximum ACP rating of 75W.
In addition, the S8010 features six DDR3 DIMM slots and an integrated LSI 2008 SAS which runs two high-speed 6Gbps SAS ports. These supplement the six SATA 3Gbps ports provided by AMD's SP5100 controller.
As far as expansion options are concerned, Tyan's motherboard features one PCI Express, two PCI-E x8 and a regular PCI slot, while the board also incorporates an Aspeed AST2050 controller which drives the integrated graphics and adds remote management capabilities to the S8010.
Various temperature, fan speeds and voltages can be monitored via a Winbond W83795G chip.
On the back of the board users will find three Ethernet ports, two of them featuring Gigabit LAN capabilities while the third is dedicated to IPMI connections.
The C32 socket will also be used by the next-generation eight-core AMD Bulldozer processors, code-named Valencia, via a simple BIOS update.
Valencia will feature a quad-channel memory controller, AMD's Turbo Core technology, native DDR3-1866 memory support and Hyper Transport 3.1.
No details regarding pricing or availability were disclosed at this time by the company, but, as previously reported, the board is expected to be showcased during AMD's Server Summit which is scheduled to take place at the beginning of May.