New AMD Opteron™ 3200 Series Processor Family Changes Industry Economics for Single-Socket, Dedicated Hosting and Cloud customers

AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced the latest solution as part of its ongoing Web/Cloud initiative with the launch of the new AMD Opteron™ 3200 Series processor on March 20, 2012. Dedicated Web hosting customers seeking enterprise-class reliability have a new choice that delivers:

• Great value with up to 38% better price performance and up to 19% less power per core than the competition;
• ECC memory and server reliability features at a low price-point;
• Fast hardware payback - In as few as 7 months hosting fees can cover hardware costs - up to 14% quicker than with the competition;
• Efficient economics for the Cloud with twice the core density per rack.

"In today's economic environment, dedicated hosting providers need their data centers to become profit centers faster than ever," said Patrick Patla, corporate vice president and general manager, Commercial Business, AMD. "With the new AMD Opteron? 3000 Series platform, Web and Cloud customers no longer have to compromise with desktop-class platforms in order to hit certain price points. Now they have all the benefits of a true server-class product at desktop-class price points. This helps rapidly-growing hosting customers achieve fast payback in their incredibly dense, power-efficient environments." ...