AMD demonstrates second generation Opteron X-Series – APU runs on Linux based Fedora

[Boomstick777]

At the Red Hat Summit today, AMD’s server group made the first public demonstration of its second generation AMD Opteron X-Series APU codenamed ‘Berlin’. The APU runs on a Linux environment, based on the Fedora Project. The project was founded in 2003 as a result of a merger between Red Hat Linux and Fedora Linux projects and is a community driven Linux distribution. It aims to provide a familiar enterprise class operating environment to developers. It is an important development for developers looking to migrate to x86 APU servers but unwilling to introduce new tools and software platforms into IT environments, according to AMD.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-demo-fedora/#ixzz2z9Be9L7G

Demo showcases the world’s first HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture ) featured server APU.

 

[Boomstick777]

FM2+/FM3 for Carrizo, so another socket change.

I guess that's a DDR4 effect, though.

Carrizo looks decent, DDR4 and Volcanic Islands GPU. As long as Excavator is an improvement it looks like it could be very good APU.

 

[Boomstick777]

Look at the TDP of Carrizo, its 40% less than Berlin, those must be the 14nm FinFET.

Thinking the same, Glofo just announced smaller nodes. APU's with Volcanic Islands, Excavator and DDR4 on 14nm. This could be very very good..