AMD Lisbon Opteron 4100 CPUs and FireStream GPUs Launch for Servers

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PC Perspective takes a look at the Opteron 4100 CPUs and FireStream GPUs for servers

AMD is announcing a pair of new product lines today to address a couple of server markets. The new Opteron 4100-series of processors takes the Lisbon core and lowers price to the point of absurdity. Can a $99 server processor coupled with power-per-core efficiency spell success for AMD in the cloud computing infrastructure? Can can the new FireStream parts put a dent in NVIDIA's Tesla lineup?

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