AMD Opteron on SeaMicro Board Pictured

We were all expecting AMD to show projects and designs combining SeaMicro’s high-density server technology with AMD’s Atom competitors like Brazos and Brazos 2.0. The Texas-based CPU designer seems to have much more in store for us.

The first AMD SeaMicro Opteron board was pictured by hardware experts at Semiaccurate.com and it was reportedly revealed by AMD’s Andrew Feldman during this year’s AFDS.

The card has nothing to do with Brazos or trinity, but it held a full-blown Bulldozer Opteron server CPU with 8 cores and a quad-channel memory controller.

Sure, this is only a prototype and it is far away from what SeaMicro was planning to do with Intel’s Atom processor, but this shows us that AMD plans to build a high-density server platform that will be able to take on any CPU from the chip designer’s product line.

There are clear and distinct advantages in building servers with high-performance Trinity APUs, low-power Brazos 2.0 APUs and high-performance Piledriver multi-core processors, and AMD will do them all.

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