AMD opens Hammer Center
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday set up some workbenches for companies tooling around with its next-generation "Hammer" processors.
The new AMD Developer Center, located at the company's Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters, will give software developers and hardware manufacturers access to AMD's engineers, software and testing facilities.
AMD is betting heavily on Hammer and the x86-64 technology behind the forthcoming processors. It is promoting Opteron, the server version of Hammer, to server makers as an alternative to chips like Intel's Itanium. Aiding those manufacturers and the companies writing software to run on such servers will ultimately help AMD establish Opteron more quickly in the market and also sell more chips.
Opteron will come out during the first half of next year, AMD has said.
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday set up some workbenches for companies tooling around with its next-generation "Hammer" processors.
The new AMD Developer Center, located at the company's Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters, will give software developers and hardware manufacturers access to AMD's engineers, software and testing facilities.
AMD is betting heavily on Hammer and the x86-64 technology behind the forthcoming processors. It is promoting Opteron, the server version of Hammer, to server makers as an alternative to chips like Intel's Itanium. Aiding those manufacturers and the companies writing software to run on such servers will ultimately help AMD establish Opteron more quickly in the market and also sell more chips.
Opteron will come out during the first half of next year, AMD has said.
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