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Sun Microsystems Inc.'s chief Opteron server designer, Andy Bechtolsheim, heartily endorsed Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s current single-core and future dual-core chips as the future of Sun's volume computing business in a speech before attendees at Sun's Research and Education 2005 conference Wednesday, as he prepares to overhaul Sun's current designs featuring the chip. Forthcoming servers based on AMD's chip will outperform Intel Corp.'s Xeon server processor in both clusters of two-way servers and larger multiprocessor servers, Bechtolsheim said. He showed the audience a number of benchmark results that compared Sun's Opteron servers favorably against Intel's Xeon and Itanium servers for a number of different computing tasks.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) released six new Opteron processors designed for low-power applications such as blade servers and clusters, AMD said Tuesday.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on Tuesday announced it has added two Opteron processors to its roster that will allow users to migrate from 32-bit applications to 64-bit applications as needed.