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Supermicro May Ship AMD Motherboards To Google

The company officially launched its quad socket Opteron server board, capable of fitting into a 1U rackmount. The board sells for $1,300 to OEMs and requirers a 1,000W power supply for a standard system. Four HE dual core Opterons can fit in Supermicro's 1U server, meaning your standard 42U rack could hold 336 Opteron cores at once. The motherboard uses an nForce4 Pro 2200 Northbridge and the AMD 8132 PCI-X controller.
This news article was written on March 12, 2006, quoting The Register.