IBM is the latest major OEM to add Advanced Micro Device"s quad-core Opteron processors to its server portfolio. The Armonk, N.Y., company will now officially begin selling three different System x servers that use AMD"s quad-core chip, formally codenamed "Barcelona." The three systems, which are being announced May 28, are the System x3455, x3655 and the x3755.
The announcement marks a long-awaited milestone for AMD. Now, all four of the major server vendors —Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sun Microsystems and IBM – along with a host of smaller system vendors now offer quad-core Opterons within their product portfolios.