Sun Unveils Quad-Core Systems

May 14, 2008: Sun is showing off its first new systems powered by AMD Opteron quad-core processors, saying its new Sun Fire and Sun Blades offer increased performance and expanded scalability thanks to their hefty new brains.

The company says its Sun Fire X4140, X4240 and X4440 servers - the newest systems to join Sun's x64 (x86, 64-bit) server line - give customers new levels of energy efficiency, density and scalability thanks to the quad-core processors.

The systems also come with a broad choice of operating systems, including Solaris 10, OpenSolaris, Linux, Windows and VMware, and according to Sun enable greater, and more efficient use of cutting edge virtualisation technology.

“Sun's new x64 systems with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors offer customers increased performance, scalability and energy efficiency, and ultimately more value than similar servers on the market,” said Lisa Sieker, vice president of marketing, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems.

“In addition to more memory, compute density and disk drives than the competition, our server innovations also enable customers to fully realise the benefits of virtualisation and energy efficiency.”

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