As our server business continues to grow each year and we move toward greater than 30% market share, the software development community is seizing the opportunity to support and grow with AMD, says Gaith Kadir, AMD regional vice-president, Middle East and Africa. Since introducing the AMD64 instruction set and Direct Connect Architecture in 2003, AMD has worked with our software partners and the open source software community to ensure that multi-threaded and 64-bit applications harness the potential of AMD64 technology.

With the industry facing increasing demands for technologies that enable data centre resource consolidation and lower total cost of ownership (TCO), the Next-Generation AMD Opteron processor is designed to provide a smarter choice with the introduction of AMD Virtualisation technology and a seamless upgrade path from dual-core to quad-core processing. 

In addition, the AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture aims to reduce or eliminate performance bottlenecks, so that software can leverage AMD64 dual-core technology and multi-threaded development methodologies to push the boundaries of data analysis and real-world simulations with faster, more powerful and efficient hardware. 

AMD plans to announce the availability of the next generation AMD Opteron tomorrow.