Chip maker, AMD has said that t ahs started dispatching the `Interlagos x86 processor' to hardware makers and most of the first displacement will be intergraded in super computers.

The company started working on the processor, which is a 16-core Opteron built on a 32nm process, back in August 2010. The processor has the highest core count of any of AMD's server chips. AMD's acting chief executive, Thomas Seifert claims that the processor is the first ever to be `optimised for today's cloud datacentres'.

John Fruehe, a director of marketing at AMD said in a new blog post that, "While we have shipped thousands of parts up to now that were engineering samples, this first shipment of production parts is a revenue shipment, so Bulldozer is now officially in production."

He also said that the parts are being sent to key partners to allow them to finish validation testing. AMD partners HP, Dell and Cray in the hardware market.