AMD has introduced a 45nm,Quad core opteron processor.Codenamed Shanghai,this processor delievered upto 35 percent more performance with upto 35 percente decrease in power consumption at idle.With IT decision makers looking to do more with less,it can helpdrive data centre efficiencies and reduce complexities with innovations that offer superior virtualisation performance and increase performance-per-watt.

AMD has introduced the first native x86 Quad-Core CPU, the AMD Quad-Core Opteron™. The microprocessor was designed from inception for the most demanding datacenters, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers from global OEMs and system builders can deliver breakthrough capabilities to customers in a time of dramatically escalating performance-per-watt emphasis.

Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with AMD’s revolutionary Direct Connect Architecture introduce innovations that go beyond four x86 processing cores on a single die of silicon. Critical considerations for today’s most challenging business requirements inspired Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor innovations: energy efficiency with a 50 percent increase in integer and floating-point performance, enhanced virtualization performance, and investment protection via a customer-centric approach enabling non-disruptive transitions from dual- to quad-core within the same power and thermal envelopes to help keep infrastructure costs down.