AMD filed a permit to build a data center in Suwanee, Georgia.
The building will provide about 153,000 sqft of space and include, initially only one building module in a 10 year plan.
AMD built a similar strategy for its fab in Luther Forest, which is now operated by the spun off GlobalFoundries: GlobalFoundries is expanding its fabs in a module strategy as well. The data center is substantially cheaper than AMD's billion dollar fabs of the past. According to the company, the initial construction cost is estimated to be about $25 to $30 million and part of a data center consolidation approach.
Including the IT equipment, the total cost is estimated to be in the $100 million neighborhood. There was no roadmap that details the future expansion of the site. However, AMD hopes that the new datacenter will be able to help AMD "leverage changes in the business environment in terms of cost."
Somethings up...
heard of cloud computing?...
Sorry thats the way to increase computer speed is with APUs. Graphics cores are much faster at decoding one type of data where as CPU can do anything. and that video was rather good. Most of the stuff was graphics based and not CPU based, and anyone knows that AMD has much better graphics than Intel. But Intel has higher end CPUs.
Have you ever been to Georgia? All the "pro-business" quasi-fascist corporate knob-slobbering you get in the Third World - but with IP protection, electricity and network uplinks that work...
AMD's new zacate APU is doing quite well actually. The new eMachines D644 laptop that was released late January is selling like pancakes here in Manila. I already had the pleasure setting up 5 of those and I'm surprised at what it can do at that price point.
Anyway, it's good to hear AMD investing
Almost as if Intel procs should be paired with ATI cards... like many of us did for years before AMD screwed them all up! At least their graphics are back up to par, but it is still odd to me how everyone was pairing intel/ATI and AMD/nVidia, and now the whole ball of wax seems backwards.
they are working with uncle SAM to spy on other nations...this is the new thing to do these days
I agree. AMD needs to release BD or Intel is just going to get farther and farther ahead....
Now for the important part. Of course the first thing I asked him was when Bulldozer was coming. He told me that right now, partners like Dell, HP, etc, all have the entire line-up of ALL Bulldozer processors. This includes the full range of enthusiast processors (what were waiting for) all the way up to the full spectrum of server processors.
He didn't give me a specific release day, but he said that AMD is shipping all processors, and that the fabs are at full production. The words from him I liked the most: "Bulldozer could be any day now".
Not sure if it is true, but I'm really hoping its soon.
read about something in a news paper when i was in atlanta last year-an obama business kick back /stimulus from the economy/too big to fail bail out plan, and a sweet tax break from georgia, not to mention labor down there works for peanuts compared to the east west and north, but it's just another reason why AMD is 4 years behind. it will be even slower now with georgia's turtle speed work force but i doubt a data center affects cpu design and production. possibly a server render farm for movie makers using amd video cards?