AMD continues to gain momentum with its popular Opteron server processors and it plans to have quad-core versions of the processor in service by 2007.

The new processor will incorporate four cores connected together by a new version of the Hypertransport interconnect technology, and will support double data rate 3 (DDR3) memory, he said at the event, which provides financial analysts and media with a "State of AMD" address that covers the company's technology, customers and financial health.

The server version of this chip will add a third level of cache memory to AMD's processors, allowing server designers to build systems with 16 and 32 processors, Hester said.

This news article was written on November 17, 2005, quoting Computer World.