AMD has announced it is demonstrating platforms based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, including features designed to help Microsoft Windows application developers optimise their software applications through tools in upcoming software products from Microsoft. The technology demonstrations show new integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.

Ongoing collaboration throughout product development has ensured that Visual Studio 2008 tools will produce optimised code when compiling for Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. This hardware/software collaboration is designed to ensure that software developers will enjoy improved instruction selection, optimised register allocation and enhanced 128-bit floating-point performance.

“The Microsoft Visual Studio suite represents key building blocks in the Windows software development tools stack and is widely used by the Windows development community. This is why Visual Studio support for AMD processors is so important to us- it provides a highly productive environment for our customers to connect their hardware and software,” said Earl Stahl, vice president of Software Development at AMD.

“Microsoft and AMD share a common goal of providing software developers with the tools they need to be successful. We’ve worked together to establish the software and hardware link between Visual Studio 2008 and Quad-Core AMD Opteron,” said S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft.