AMD has introduced a portfolio of dual-core solutions from server and workstations for enterprise users to desktop and desktop-replacement notebooks for consumers and business users. The Dual-Core AMD Opteron 800 Series processor for four- to eight-way servers delivers up to a 90% performance improvement for application servers over single-core AMD Opteron processors. The dual-core AMD64 processors are designed to be compatible with the existing base of x86 software, whether it is single-threaded or multi-threaded. This means the more than 1,300 applications from more than 300 ISVs and open-source software organizations that are featured on the AMD64 Software Ecosystem Web site www.amd.com/amd64ecosystem will be able to support AMD64 dual-core processors with a simple BIOS upgrade and no substantial code changes.
