John Fruehe, the Director of Business Development for Server/Workstation products at AMD, writes in his blog that customer anticipation over “Istanbul”, AMD’s new six-core AMD OpteronTM processor, is growing every day. Since late last month, when AMD indicated that the launch was pulling in due to the unprecedented quality of the silicon, the requests have been pouring in. More and more customers are asking when they can get their hands on one of these processors.
Here is a video where Barry Bolding, the Vice President of Scalable Systems at Cray talks about the upcoming Six-Core AMD Opteron processor. He details the benefits of Istanbul and what it will mean for their customers.
