By leveraging AMD's Common Core Strategy and Same Socket technology, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are designed to minimize changes to your software and data center infrastructure to protect your IT investment and simplify IT management.AMD plans include a stable consistent roadmap and well-timed transitions to help decrease your IT TCO.Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are designed for optimum multi-threaded application performance. They start with a native quad-core design - featuring four cores on a single die for more efficient data sharing - and add an enhanced cache structure and integrated memory controller designed to sustain multi-threaded application throughput. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors provide outstanding processing power and can increase performance-per-watt to improve IT responsiveness while maintaining costs.AMD Opteron processors enable stable, long-term solutions with outstanding performance and industry-leading performance-per-watt to simplify your IT management - now and in the future.