As part of its commitment to supporting and contributing to open standards, AMD has joined the Eclipse Foundation. AMD will add its expertise and history of collaborative innovation to the Eclipse community, helping to drive the standardization of an extensible development platform and application frameworks that can harness the power of x86 architectures and multi-core processing.

“AMD joins a prestigious group of companies and individuals devoted to establishing and standardizing an open, extensible development platform and application frameworks,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director, Eclipse Foundation, Inc. “We look forward to AMD’s contributions to our open source community.”

Recently introduced, native Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors continue AMD’s tradition of reducing the total cost of ownership for the enterprise and enabling solutions that meet customer needs. By achieving four x86 processing cores on a single die of silicon in a consistent thermal envelope, AMD has advanced the performance capabilities of AMD Opteron processors, while providing customers with increased energy-efficiency capabilities. Micro-architectural enhancements in AMD’s native quad-core design, designed in collaboration with ecosystem partners, also enable performance advancements for software applications such as virtualization.