With its new “Seattle” server chips now shipping in volume after a long delay, AMD hopes that it’s coming into a market where there are fewer concerns about the ARM architecture in data centers.

The Opteron A1100 chips will power web servers, networking appliances and storage arrays. The chips are available in four- and eight-core variants, and packaged with networking and storage controllers.

AMD was supposed to ship Seattle last year, but ultimately the delay worked to its benefit because the ARM server market wasn’t ready, said Dan Bounds, senior director of data center products and enterprise solutions at AMD. There’s more awareness of the benefits of ARM servers today, and more software is available, but AMD knows it has a lot of work to do going forward, Bounds said.

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