IBM chose AMD chip for the new server

The world's largest technology service provider said that the new server line is for businesses but will have the same processing power as the supercomputers at universities and giant corporations.

5 new models all use AMD processors, instead of Intel chips as precedents. With AMD chips, IBM said the new server series is not only more powerful but also saves energy and generates less heat than previous products. Of course, their selling prices are also significantly cheaper than those of supercomputers.

This decision by IBM was a real boost for AMD in Intel's "home" invasion, especially when the big rival just launched a highly anticipated new series of chips.

Source: Reuters Dell, the world's number one personal computer maker also plans to use AMD's Opteron chip for high-end servers later this year, ending "exclusive 22-year affair" with Intel.

" Opteron achieves a very high processing performance that enterprise applications require ," said Pund-IT Research Fund analyst Charles King.

For its part, IBM is also facing fierce competition in the server market from rival HP. HP is currently the leading global server business in the first quarter.

While holding 28% of the world server market share in the first 3 months of 2006, IBM's revenue has decreased by 3.6% while HP's revenue has remained almost unchanged. Sun Microsystems has the fastest growth rate among the giants, increasing 5.8% of revenue and holding 10.8% of the global market share.

IBM started using Opeteron processors since 2003, but mainly to serve customers like universities and research centers, which require super-powerful and high-end systems.

The new server can serve a lot of business applications ranging from centralized data processing to video and Internet TV. IBM plans to launch five of these servers in the third quarter.

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