Definitions for "Opteron"
a server processor
The official name of the server version of Hammer, code named Sledgehammer. It is rumored to have 1MB of L2 cache, and is set to arrive in the 1st half of 2003.
The AMD Opteron (codenamed SledgeHammer during development) was the first of AMD's eighth-generation x86 processors based on the K8 or Hammer core, and the first processor to implement the AMD64 (formerly x86-64) instruction set architecture. It was released on April 22, 2003 and was intended to compete in the server market, particularly in the same segment as the Intel Xeon processor.