AMD Debuts First Open Compute Project Open 3.0 Motherboard

AMD is the first to unveil its Open Compute Project "open source" motherboard. Called the Open 3.0, the board is suitable for cloud server, storage servers, and high-performance computing clusters.

Chipmaker AMD has unveiled its first Open Compute Project "open source" motherboard. Both AMD and Intel have both been working on the Open Compute Project since Facebook kicked off the open source hardware project back in 2011. Now, AMD has become the first major vendor to ship a motherboard developed out of the project...

"This is a realization of the Open Compute Project's mission of 'hacking conventional computing infrastructure'," said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and Facebook vice-president of hardware design and supply chain. "What's really exciting for me here is the way the Open Compute Project inspired AMD and specific consumers to collaboratively bring our 'vanity-free' design philosophy to a motherboard that suited their exact needs."...