AMD readies new server platform for 2009

Code-named Fiorano, AMD's new server platform is due out in the second half of 2009. Designed with the "Shanghai" 45-nanometer processors in mind, it will come with full support for HyperTransport3, and an advanced virtualization capability called IOMMU that allows virtualization to extend to the level of the system's I/O traffic. In addition to supporting the second generation of PCI Express, Fiorano also will represent the first time that AMD will build its own chip set for servers. While AMD is willing to talk about its new platform strategy, not much is known about Shanghai at this point, other than that it will have four processing cores and come with 6MB of L3 cache.

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