AMD Offers 35 Percent Discount For Opteron

On April 7 AMD announced their Opteron Upgrade Program. This program gives businesses and channel partners a 35 percent discount when they upgrade the generation of their Opteron chips. The program includes the dual-core 2000 series Opterons, 8000 series quad-core chips and AMD’s upcoming six-core “Istanbul” Opteron chip.

The discounts can render to $50 off the 2000 series chips and $100 off the 8000 series processors. The discounts are designed to reduce the financial pressures on customers and channel partners during the recession as well as to highlight the stable Opteron platform, said AMD officials.