AMD's Multi-Core Solutions: Leading the Industry

As the enterprise moves increasingly forward into the age of real-time information, swift digital processing becomes an increasingly mission-critical task at every level of the network hierarchy. Multi-core technology improves processor performance.

Multi-core design enhances performance to virtually the same extent as multi-processor designs but more elegantly. It increases the maximum number of processing tasks by distributing computing threads among cores in real time. Because computation is confined to a single die, less heat is produced, less electricity is consumed, product life is extended, and more computation is available in smaller form factors.

In short, multi-core processing helps minimize computational costs to the enterprise.

AMD was the first to deliver dual-core, x86-compatible, 64-bit processors, each optimized with proprietary benefits such as Direct Connect Architecture, which reduces or eliminates bottlenecks routing data to and from the CPU. And only AMD's processors feature an integrated memory controller.

We have only begun to inspire the world with our vision of multi-core computing.

Native Quad-Core Processing Power

• AMD Demonstrates the Industry's First Native x86 Quad-Core Processor
  

Multi-core Technology

AMD is proud to announce the launch of the Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, the world's first x86 dual-core processor.

• Dual-core from AMD
• It Takes an Architecture to Make a Multi-Core Processor (375KB PDF)
• It Takes an Ecosystem to Make a Dual-Core Platform (436KB PDF)

Learn about the evolution to multi-core processors and the applications that benefit from this advancement in computing.

• Multi-core processors - the next evolution in computing (72KB PDF)

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