AMD Gives High-End Embedded Designers A New Choice

AMD Gives High-End Embedded Designers A New Choice

At the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) today, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced a program that offers an extended product life cycle to support system designers in the high-end, high-performance embedded market with the AMD Opteronâ„¢ processor. The stable and reliable AMD64 platform with Direct Connect Architecture will now be offered with an extended standard availability period of five years for a select set of the AMD Opteron processor family. AMD is providing customers in telecommunications servers, storage systems, digital imaging devices and custom embedded markets an unparalleled choice in x86-based advanced processor architecture.

“Embedded customers have design, qualification and product life cycles that are longer than mainstream PCs and servers, but still require the highest level of processor performance,” said Iain Morris, senior vice president, Personal Connectivity Solutions Group at AMD. “AMD is responding to our customers’ needs with a high-performance embedded processor roadmap for almost every conceivable embedded design, from the AMD Alchemy™ and AMD Geode™ processors to the industry-leading AMD Opteron processor. AMD is the leader when it comes to enabling embedded designs for x86.”

“Sun is committed to delivering scalable, reliable and standards-based telecom servers for the network equipment provider market,” said Raju Penumatcha, vice president of Netra Systems and Networking (NSN) at Sun Microsystems. “Our next-generation ATCA blade platform, supporting both Solaris and CG Linux operating systems, will offer customers high-performance 32/64-bit computing, a key benefit achieved with both the Sun UltraSPARC processors and the AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture.”

“A number of our customers have been approaching us, asking for 64-bit processor capability on a small platform for quite a while,” said Chiman Patel, CEO and CTO of WIN Enterprises. “The entry of AMD into this market space has enabled us to meet those customers’ unique requirements. We developed our new single- board computer, MB-06047, based on the EBX platform for the embedded market using the AMD Opteron processor. Now that the longevity piece is in place for AMD64 technology, we are able to meet a broader range of our customer requirements for embedded designs on x86 platforms. The level of support we received from AMD through the development phase of the project dramatically helped speed up our delivery time of a finished product.”

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