AMD Opteron server chips released by ACER

Computer manufacturer Acer will be the first to sell out the server systems using AMD's most recent Opteron chip. Said Ben Williams, vice president and general manager AMD Asia - Pacific region, Acer is one of the largest computer companies - along with Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Cray - will soon be sold Opteron server chip in AMD's latest line of 6100.

Acer Aspire One netbook known for being popular, but it also has long provided the server, though never head of this market. However, this year the Taiwanese computer company is intending to enter the server market, targets small and medium enterprises, and also markets high-performance computers.

Opteron 6100 Series, formerly code-named Magny-Cours, including 10 with 8 or 12-core chip, with clock speeds from 1.7 to 2.4 GHz. The price of this chip varies from 266 dollars (266 USD, ~ 5.1 million) to $ 1,386 (26.8 million) each to buy chips if the chip number 1000, which is commonly used by chip prices. The chip is designed for servers with two or four processors and has better performance than AMD's current chips.
Opteron 6100 Global Foundries are companies manufacturing 45-nanometer process. having of two silicon chips are connected blade, every blade has four or six cores.

The upcoming server chip Opteron village 6100, and new server chip competitor Intel, shows the investment in computers and other hardware companies are on the rebound. According to Williams, is out of the Asian economic downturn and begin growing again. Consulting companies and IT research firm Gartner hope server sales in Asia will start to rise from mid-2010.