Tuesday, 28 January 2014

The Opteron A1100 is AMD's first ARM-based SoC

The Opteron A1100 is a 64-bit server SoC that features ARM’s v8 cores.



AMD has announced its first ARM-based offerings at the Open Compute Summit in San Jose in the form of the Opteron A1100.

The SoC is designed to be used in a server environment, and will be available in quad-core and octa-core configurations. Both configurations will feature the ARM v8 based Cortex A57 core that can be clocked to 2 GHz.

The processor comes with 4 MB of shared L2 and 8 MB of shared L3 cache, along with configurable DDR3 or DDR4 memory channels. The 128-bit wide memory interface can also accommodate four SODIMM, UDIMM or RDIMMs. In addition, the SoC features an eight port SATA controller along with a PCI-Express Gen 3 controller that has slot configurations of 1 x8 or 2 x4 and two Gigabit Ethernet ports.



AMD has also announced an Opteron A-Series development kit that includes an Opteron A1100 SoC, four DIMM slots which can accommodate a total of 128 GB of DDR3 DRAM on a single SoC and eight SATA connectors. *The Micro-ATX form factored board can be used as a standalone unit or can be mounted onto a server, and comes with an eight lane PCI Express controller.



With the Opteron A1100 and future ARM-based offerings, AMD is looking to steal a chunk of the server market share away from Intel. AMD is also looking to become the number one manufacturer in the ARM-based server market, and will announce more processors sometime later this year.



Andrew Feldman, general manager of AMD’s server business unit, mentioned that AMD is surging ahead in the ARM community, and that “in the history of compute, smaller lower-priced CPUs have always won.”

Source: AMD



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