Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out some additions to its Opteron family of dual-core processors that will now <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2111396,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL040507EOAD">run at a clock speed of 3.0GHz.</A>

On April 4, AMD launched the Opteron 2222 SE model for two-way systems and the 8222 SE model for four- and eight-way servers. The two new models will both run at 3.0GHz and offer 2MB of Level 2 cache and the same integrated memory controller and HyperTransport technology (a high-speed chip-to-chip interconnect) as other processors in that series.