In these turbulent economic times as Banks, Insurance and Automobile companies are crying for bailouts, AMD Engineers have rolled-up their sleeves to help lead us back to better times through innovation. 

Today AMD is announcing  it's first 45 nanometer Quad-Core Opteron Server processor, it will require a third less power then the previous generation Opteron and with a larger cache enable advanced virtualzation capabilities.

The Quad-Core Opteron is optimized for high speed DDR2 memory creating more efficiency with less power in the Data Center for a welcomed decrease in the overall cost of cooling.  

Partners HP, IBM, SUN and Cray are shipping servers today with the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron.

AMD is the processor provider for Windows Azure cloud services.