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AMD Poised To Launch 6-Core Istanbul

May 31st, 2009 · No Comments




by Alexander Wolfe
“AMD will take Opteron to the next level on June 1, when it formally unveils its 6-core Istanbul processor. The exciting angle for users of high-powered servers (and also viewed from a data-center consolidation perspective) is that Istanbul in 4-socket servers will deliver 24 physical cores. (And you can add virtualization on top of that.) When you add the AMD launch to Intel news last week about its 8-core Nehalem-EX, I’d say we have a have a processing-power revolution on our hands comparable to that which occurred when RISC displaced CISC.”

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