HP Switches to AMD for Blade PCs
AMD has another company under its belt! Hewlett-Packard has decided to use a special version of AMD’s Athlon 64 chip in their bc1500 Blade PC series. This will undoubtedly drive revenue up for both companies, as IT firms and large-scale companies will be looking for PC’s that have low-power consumption and good processing power, something AMD has proven itself to have for awhile.
Hewlett-Packard is expected to release an update to its blade PC product on Monday, switching to Advanced Micro Devices’ processors for its alternative to traditional desktop PCs. HP’s new bc1500 blade PC uses a special low-power Athlon 64 processor from AMD in place of the Transmeta Efficeon processors found in older versions of HP’s Consolidated Client Infrastructure products, said Tad Bodeman, director of HP’s CCI and thin client products. Blade PCs are essentially a collection of motherboards stacked in a chassis, similar to how blade servers are deployed. They allow IT departments to centrally manage their PCs in order to improve the security and reliability of those systems. Unlike a thin client, a blade PC gives each user a processor, memory, and hard drive reserved for their use, rather than having to share resources with everyone else on a server. The blade chassis sits in a company’s server room and is connected via Ethernet cables to a small box that sits on the user’s desktop, where a standard monitor, keyboard, mouse, and other peripherals can be connected.
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