AMD Interlagos and Valencia Processor with 16 cores

AMD launches its first commercial processors with 16 cores technology. New Lines of CPUs operate with nuclei that have frequency of 1.6 GHz to 2.6 GHz, offering maximum performance for the adoption of cloud computing services.

On Monday (Nov. 14), AMD officially announced the new Opteron 6200 and 4200, which have the codenames “Interlagos” and “Valencia”, respectively.

According to the company newsletter, this new series of CPUs are aimed at businesses, focusing on the implementation of cloud computing services. The Opteron 6200 (with 16 processor cores) offers 73% more memory bandwidth, reduces the power consumption of each core in half and has a 89% greater performance than similar processors in the same range and cost.

“Our industry is a new moment, the virtualization provided a new level of trust and consolidation of companies are looking for the ‘cloud’ as a way of promoting greater flexibility and efficiency. We designed the new AMD Opteron processor for this moment” said Paul Struhsaker, corporate vice president and general manager of AMD.

In the new Opteron 6200 and 4200 lines, based on the architecture “Bulldozer”, each core has a 1.6 GHz to 2.6 GHz frequency. The price of different models of each series can range from about $500 to $1,000.

Cray built the world's first production petaflops system with the Cray XT5 supercomputer in 2009

AMD processors have barely been launched and plans are already in business who want to create commercial supercomputers. As reported by Baboo site, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) contracted manufacturer Cray to develop high-powered machines that will be part of the Blue Waters project – which includes the use of a hybrid supercomputer with 265 offices, outperforming 1 pentaflop.