64-bit Opteron A1100-series developer kit from AMD

64-bit ARM based processor based Opteron A1100-Series developer kit from AMD is available now. AMD is the first company to provide a standard ARM Cortex-A57- based server platform. “The journey toward a more efficient infrastructure for large-scale datacenters is taking a major step forward today with broader availability of our AMD Opteron A1100-Series development kit,” said Suresh Gopalakrishnan, general manager and vice president, Server business unit, AMD. “After successfully sampling to major ecosystem partners such as firmware, OS, and tools providers, we are taking the next step in what will be a collaborative effort across the industry to reimagine the datacenter based on the open business model of ARM innovation.” The AMD Opteron A1100 Series processor supports: 4 and 8 ARM Cortex-A57 cores Up to 4 MB of shared L2 and 8 MB of shared L3 cache Configurable dual DDR3 or DDR4 memory channels with ECC at up to 1866 MT/second Up to 4 SODIMM, UDIMM or RDIMMs 8 lanes of PCI-Express Gen 3 I/O 8 Serial ATA 3 ports 2 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports ARM TrustZone technology for enhanced security Crypto and data compression co-processors The AMD Opteron A1100 development kit is packaged in a microATX form factor and includes: An AMD Opteron A1100-Series processor with 4 cores 2 Registered DIMM with 16 GB of DDR3 DRAM ...