The company demonstrated a working six core AMD processor, said The Tech Report. The code name of the chip that is included in the family of Opteron, - Istanbul.Istanbul was created in compliance with 45-nanometer production methods. It supports memory DDR2. The amount of cache at the third level of the chip is equal to six megabytes.
Six core processor AMD Opteron Istanbul is designed for installation in servers. During the presentation, AMD introduced three systems based on this chip. Two of them can support up to four processors. The third was designed to work with two chips.
Serial production of Istanbul due to commence before the end of 2009. In 2010, AMD plans to release six core processor AMD Sao Paulo with support for DDR3 memory and a 12-nuclear chip, Magny-Cours.
Company Intel, the main competitor AMD processors on the market, has released six core server processor in September 2008. It is part of a line of Xeon, and operates at a frequency of 2.6 gigahertz. The amount of cache at the third level of the chip is 16 megabytes.
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Six core processor AMD Opteron Istanbul is designed for installation in servers. During the presentation, AMD introduced three systems based on this chip. Two of them can support up to four processors. The third was designed to work with two chips.
Serial production of Istanbul due to commence before the end of 2009. In 2010, AMD plans to release six core processor AMD Sao Paulo with support for DDR3 memory and a 12-nuclear chip, Magny-Cours.
Company Intel, the main competitor AMD processors on the market, has released six core server processor in September 2008. It is part of a line of Xeon, and operates at a frequency of 2.6 gigahertz. The amount of cache at the third level of the chip is 16 megabytes.
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