AMD ships delayed ARM-based "Seattle" server chips to a cautious market

With its new "Seattle" server chips now shipping in volume after a long delay, AMD hopes that it's coming into a market where there are fewer concerns about the ARM architecture in data centers. The Opteron A1100 chips will power web servers, networking appliances and storage arrays. The chips are available in four- and eight-core variants, and packaged with networking and storage controllers. AMD was supposed to ship Seattle last year, but ultimately the delay worked to its benefit because the ...