Thread: AMD has released a server platform Kroner

Last week, Intel has been busy carrying out their forum for developers, AMD has started to produce its brand new server platform called Kroner. This platform includes a new chipset from AMD, codenamed "Fiorano.

Perhaps the most important aspect of this announcement is that this is the first AMD chipset market servers. Now AMD will be able to produce all the basic chip computer, namely, the chipset, CPU and GPU. The biggest advantage of running the platform Kroner socket Socket-F is that the manufacturer is now fully controls its own server platform and can no longer rely on third-party chipsets from nVidia and Broadcom. Incidentally, this was possible only through the acquisition of ATI.Despite the fact that this purchase is often criticized, it is a new graphics division has helped AMD to create a series of powerful new solutions.



Adding IOMMU provides virtualization capabilities that serves to strengthen and because high levels of AMD in this area.Jim McGregor (Jim McGregor), an analyst with In-Stat, noted that "as far as how the use of clouds is becoming increasingly popular, the servers will start demanding more graphics performance, but whether these changes will affect the market of computers, while" no one knows sure.

AMD representatives said that a number of manufacturers are already actively working on their own decisions with the new chipset AMD. Servers made on the basis of the upcoming 12-nuclear processor AMD Opteron, codenamed Magny-Cours is expected to be on the market in the first quarter of 2010.