While AMD has been hailed for its first-to-the-market, backward-compatible, 64-bit processors, which support both 32-bit and 64-bit software applications, the company has trailed rival Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., in the more-efficient 90 nm manufacturing technology. Intel executives said last week that, by the third quarter, most of its processors shipped to market would be built on a 90 nm process.
AMD, though, continues to tout the availability of its Direct Connect architecture, technology that the company says connects memory directly to the CPU and reduces processing bottlenecks. Direct Connect is implemented in all of AMD's new processors.
The Opteron 850 will be priced at $1,514 in 1,000-unit quantities; the 250 will be priced at $851 in 1,000-unit quantities; and the 150 will be priced at $637 in 1,000-unit quantities, AMD said.
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