AMD shows off SeaMicro Opteron

[piesquared]

Beta October, available November.

It may be a tired refrain, but we told you this would be happening, and it did. It will be followed up by APU variants of Opterons, quite likely a 2x 17W Trinity board. That is where the cool stuff starts, high density GPU compute machines are what many HPC customers have wanted for a long time. Let the fun begin.S|A

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/06/14/amd-shows-off-seamicro-opteron/

 

[Idontcare]

nm

 

[piesquared]

Yer link is broken, I think you wanted this one:
http://semiaccurate.com/2012/06/14/amd-shows-off-seamicro-opteron/

Yep that's the one, thanks.

 

[Phynaz]

So, ummm, it's a board?

 

[KompuKare]

So, ummm, it's a board?

For $250 million it had better be more. I know pocket change for Intel but not AMD so they had better use SeaMicro wisely.

 

[Khato]

So, ummm, it's a board?

It's a board that looks to be physically compatible with their current (soon to be previous) Xeon and Atom offerings - http://regmedia.co.uk/2012/01/31/seamicro_xe_and_hd64_boards.jpg I wouldn't be surprised if it can more or less just be plugged into their existing infrastructure.

Anyone else find it amusing that they switched the PCB from blue to green?

 

[piesquared]

AMD Acquisition of SeaMicro: a Disruptive Server Strategy

Conclusion

What can be learnt from this AMD acquisition and bitter rivalry from Intel? In such a volatile market, the stakes can be very high and will cause a company to put a lot of stock in a startup at times. SeaMicro happened to be this startup that got the biggest hardware giants to notice it in the IT world. Sometimes a startup can have a great idea and if it follows with the idea, it can be noticed. A startup doesn’t have to be huge or generate an incredible amount of revenue for other companies to miss it and not see potential in what it is doing. SeaMicro really happens to be at the right market, which relates to cloud computing, at the right time.

Years ago many were armchair QB'ing about how fail the aquisition of ATi was, and how their fabless model was going to doom them, and how APU's were going to finally put the nail in the coffin, and on and on and on..

 

[grimpr]

AMD Acquisition of SeaMicro: a Disruptive Server Strategy


Years ago many were armchair QB'ing about how fail the aquisition of ATi was, and how their fabless model was going to doom them, and how APU's were going to finally put the nail in the coffin, and on and on and on..

This goes back 20 and more years, its the classic AMD Doom & Gloom FUD that never seems to die, just like AMD.

 

[piesquared]

Yeah, the sad part is that the majority of FUD doesn't come from enthusiasts but an orchestrated effort from the investment wing, or day traders that profit from it and it's causing damage to the online community.

 

[nenforcer]

Coincidentally, or perhaps not, HP announced a microserver based on Intel Atom chips yesterday

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/23138

Obviously without any APU's, of course.

 

[Phynaz]

Yeah, the sad part is that the majority of FUD doesn't come from enthusiasts but an orchestrated effort from the investment wing, or day traders that profit from it and it's causing damage to the online community.

Yep, AMD's problems are never of their own making, are they?

 

[Ferzerp]

Yep, AMD's problems are never of their own making, are they?

Of course not. It could *never* be about the product. No siree!

 

[Citizen X]

yes sir!