So, where is AMD Seattle?

[flash-gordon]

It should be on the news by now...

 

[geoxile]

Didn't it launch? Or at least dev kits did

http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/server/opteron-a-series
http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/server/opteron-a-series/a1100

 

[Justinbaileyman]

Holy crap I cant wait.. what socket will these go in??Please for the love of god dont say G34 cause that socket is so outdated.Anyways I am really into arm right now and am very excited for these. Whats the core count on these babies??

 

[NostaSeronx]

It goes into socket SP1 which is a BGA socket.

http://www.synopsys.com/cgi-bin/armtech/video2014/reg1.cgi?file=arm-techon-2014-amd

 

[NTMBK]

Just south from AMD Canada.

 

[Erenhardt]

Just south from AMD Canada.

I C what U did there :thumbsup:

 

[smitbret]

I C what U did there :thumbsup:

I was thinking that at this point it was probably just sharing a basement bedroom with some neckbeard in Bellevue.

 

[Elixer]

AMD will launch the new Opteron "Seattle" enterprise CPUs, which integrate up to eight ARM Cortex A-57 64-bit cores, targeting the ultra-dense server market sometime in March-April.

I wonder if they can get some profit form this move ?

 

[Ketchup]

It goes into socket SP1 which is a BGA socket.

http://www.synopsys.com/cgi-bin/armtech/video2014/reg1.cgi?file=arm-techon-2014-amd

Because AMD doesn't have enough current sockets as it is.

 

[exar333]

Because AMD doesn't have enough current sockets as it is.

Intel has a girlfriend every year and AMD keep's picking-up more chicks and can't let the older ones go, just keeps 'em stringing along.

 

[Vesku]

Well it will be a year from when they said they'd be shipping lots of sample kits April this year, so I'd say we should see actual Seattle servers selling sometime between May and September. This is going off their historical design to shipping performance.

 

[Ajay]

I wonder if they can get some profit form this move ?

Well, they are trying to open up a new market - so not very likely :\

 

[monstercameron]

http://semiaccurate.com/2015/04/21/amds-opteron-a1100-series-to-sell-for-171/

 

[erunion]

Thanks for the link.

 

[DrMrLordX]

That's interesting. It's like AMD has gone all the way back to their old Athlon MP strategy: if you can't beat the competition in the server room, underprice them big time. $171 for an A-series Opteron is far less than what you bay for Broadwell-D which is obviously the toughest competition Intel has in that server segment.

So the chip is cheap, the platform is cheap, the power draw is low . . . TCO is going to be rock-bottom for those things. There's still software costs, but those vary from shop to shop.

 

[mrmt]

That's interesting. It's like AMD has gone all the way back to their old Athlon MP strategy: if you can't beat the competition in the server room, underprice them big time. $171 for an A-series Opteron is far less than what you bay for Broadwell-D which is obviously the toughest competition Intel has in that server segment.

Do you think Seattle is good enough to beat the Atom C series?

 

[jpiniero]

There is a Quad Core Xeon D model, which goes for $199 tray price. So there is that competition too.

Do you think Seattle is good enough to beat the Atom C series?

Yeah. It should be.

 

[mrmt]

Yeah. It should be.

I'm not really that optimistic, especially after the SeaMicro debacle.

 

[jpiniero]

I'm not really that optimistic, especially after the SeaMicro debacle.

Well, it's AMD. Who knows if they would be able to get anyone to buy it!

But it should be faster than the C2750.

 

[Arachnotronic]

Well, it's AMD. Who knows if they would be able to get anyone to buy it!

But it should be faster than the C2750.

Not in SPECint 2k6 it isn't...

http://hothardware.com/News/AMD-Ann...ore-ARM-SoC-At-Facebooks-Open-Compute-Summit/

Late, slow, and probably consumers more power than Avoton. AMD has a real winner here.

 

[mrmt]

Not in SPECint 2k6 it isn't...

http://hothardware.com/News/AMD-Ann...ore-ARM-SoC-At-Facebooks-Open-Compute-Summit/

Late, slow, and probably consumers more power than Avoton. AMD has a real winner here.

AMD managers weren't kidding when they said that they were uniquely positioned to do things nobody could in the compute space: Now AMD sucks in two different ecosystems.

 

[jpiniero]

Not in SPECint 2k6 it isn't...

http://hothardware.com/News/AMD-Ann...ore-ARM-SoC-At-Facebooks-Open-Compute-Summit/

Late, slow, and probably consumers more power than Avoton. AMD has a real winner here.

Hmm.. the clock speed must be lower than I was thinking. I was extrapolating the performance from the 4xA57 Snapdragon 810 and comparing it to Avoton in Geekbench 3.

Then again, the 810 is on 20 nm; Seattle is on 28 nm.

 

[richaron]

I assume the release of ARMv8.1-a at the end of last year helped to delay Seattle.

I've been waiting for a powerful router to serve as NAS/home server but I might just go old school & build it myself. At least with something like this it'll be relatively low power (important for always on where I live), but with enough grunt for a PBX server & PVR backend. A few SATA ports and 10G networks were limiting my choices.

 

[DrMrLordX]

I'm not really that optimistic, especially after the SeaMicro debacle.

Honestly, I don't think the SeaMicro situation has anything to do with the performance capabilities of A-series Opterons.

Not in SPECint 2k6 it isn't...

http://hothardware.com/News/AMD-Ann...ore-ARM-SoC-At-Facebooks-Open-Compute-Summit/

Interesting, though hardly conclusive.

Late, slow, and probably consumers more power than Avoton. AMD has a real winner here.

I will agree that the power consumption will probably be higher on A-series Opteron systems, though AMD is packing 8 cores under the hood which may provide it with a non-trivial advantage in situations where thread handling capability is more important that total throughput. Web servers, stuff like that.

That $199 Broadwell-D is uncomfortably close in price to the A-Series chips, so for AMD's sake, Seattle better show up well in other benches to generate some interest. Seattle really needed to show up months ago. The delays are definitely a problem.

 

[mrmt]

I will agree that the power consumption will probably be higher on A-series Opteron systems, though AMD is packing 8 cores under the hood which may provide it with a non-trivial advantage in situations where thread handling capability is more important that total throughput. Web servers, stuff like that.

Avoton also has 8C.