AMD, displaying a rare breed of initiative for a chip manufacturer has opened up the hardware specifications for its Opteron server processor, enabling other chipmakers to design co-processors that will be socket compatible with an Opteron motherboard.
The phenomenally successful Opteron server
processor has been largely behind the rise of AMD as a major rival to
Intel. The new initiative to open up the Opteron architectre to other
chipmakers has been dubbed Torrenza.
Under the Torrenza vision of AMD, other chip maunfacturers would be
able to design and manufacture co-processors that would be socket
compatible with an Opteron motherboard. In one socket, there would be
an AMD Opteron processor and in another socket a co-processor from
another manufacturer.
AMD acquired graphics chipmaker ATI in July, an acknowledgement that one chip manufacturer cannot supply everything
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AMD, displaying a rare breed of initiative for a chip manufacturer has opened up the hardware specifications for its Opteron server processor, enabling other chipmakers to design co-processors that will be socket compatible with an Opteron motherboard.
