AMD added a major new milestone to its list of seminal developments in server technology. The company displayed a comprehensive development platform for its first 64-bit ARM(R)-based server CPU, fabricated using 28 nanometer process technology, the first from an established server vendor. AMD also announced the imminent sampling of the ARM-based processor, named the AMD Opteron(TM) A1100 Series, and a development platform, which includes an evaluation board and a comprehensive software suite.

In addition, AMD announced that it would be contributing to the Open Compute Project a new micro-server design using the AMD Opteron A-Series, as part of the common slot architecture specification for motherboards dubbed 'Group Hug.' The AMD Opteron A-Series processor, codenamed 'Seattle,' will sample this quarter along with a development platform that will make software design on the industry's premier ARM-based server CPU quick and easy. AMD is collaborating with industry leaders to enable a robust 64-bit software ecosystem for ARM-based designs from compilers and simulators to hypervisors, operating systems and application software, in order to address key workloads in Web-tier and storage data center environments.

The AMD Opteron A-Series development platform will be supported by a broad set of tools and software including a standard UEFI boot and Linux environment based on the Fedora Project, a Red Hat-sponsored, community-driven Linux distribution. The AMD Opteron A1100 Series processors support 4 or 8 core ARM Cortex(TM)-A57 processors, up to 4 MB of shared L2 and 8 MB of shared L3 cache, configurable dual DDR3 or DDR4 memory channels with ECC at up to 1866 MT/second, up to 4 SODIMM, UDIMM or RDIMMs, 8 lanes of PCI-Express(R) Gen 3 I/O, 8 Serial ATA 3 ports, 2 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, ARM TrustZone(R) technology for enhanced security, crypto and data compression co-processors. The AMD Opteron A-Series development kit is packaged in a Micro-ATX form factor and includes an AMD Opteron A1100 Series processor, 4 Registered DIMM slots for up to 128GB of DDR3 DRAM, PCI Express(R) connectors configurable as a single x8 or dual x4 ports, 8 Serial-ATA connectors, compatibility with standard power supplies, ability to be used stand-alone or mounted in standard rack-mount chassis, standard UEFI boot environment, linux environment based on Fedora, which provides developers with a rich, set of tools and applications, standard Linux GNU tool chain, including cross-development version, platform device drivers, apache web server, MySQL database engine, and PHP scripting language for developing robust web serving applications, Java 7 and Java 8 versions to provide developers to work in a 64-bit ARM environment.