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AMD Launches Six-Core 'Istanbul' Opteron
Information Week ^
| 6-1-09
| Antone Gonsalves
Posted on 06/01/2009 12:04:33 PM PDT by Justaham
A new feature in Istanbul is called HyperTransport Assist, a technology that increases memory and I/O performance by reducing the overhead of cache lockups.
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) on Monday launched its six-core server processor code-named Istanbul, saying computer makers this month would be selling high-powered products incorporating the chip. The release of AMD's latest Opteron chip followed less than a week after Intel (NSDQ: INTC) announced that it would begin production of an eight-core Nehalem-EX processor, officially called the Xeon 7400 line, this year. Systems are expected in 2010.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: amd; hitech; opteron
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posted on
06/01/2009 12:04:33 PM PDT
by
Justaham
To: Justaham
AMD Launches Six-Core 'Istanbul' OpteronBefore it was the 'Constantinople' Opteron.
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posted on
06/01/2009 12:05:52 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The Huskies are Gator Bait!)
To: Justaham
What, me worry?
That man in Istanbul.
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
06/01/2009 12:08:58 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: dfwgator
those are just code names ... When it’s released, it will be called “Byzantium”.
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posted on
06/01/2009 12:10:46 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Justaham
The release of AMD's latest Opteron chip followed less than a week after Intel (NSDQ: INTC) announced that it would begin production of an eight-core Nehalem-EX processor, officially called the Xeon 7400 line, this year. Typical of Intel.
AMD announces an actual product while Intel announces something even BETTER... that isn't available yet.
AMD rocks with the comparatively few resources it has.
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posted on
06/01/2009 12:13:46 PM PDT
by
TChris
(There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
To: Justaham
Can probably expect to see a full scale realtime raytraced video game come out when we see 16 core processors.
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posted on
06/01/2009 12:15:17 PM PDT
by
Crazieman
(Feb 7, 2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966675/posts?page=28#28)
To: Crazieman
Sounds an awful lot like...........the Turk. The end is near. I bet that it is already guarded by an army of Terminators.
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posted on
06/01/2009 12:24:42 PM PDT
by
MPJackal
("From my cold dead hands.")
To: dfwgator
Before it was the 'Constantinople' Opteron. darn it. Beat me to it :p
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posted on
06/01/2009 12:25:14 PM PDT
by
09Patriot
(I am a MILITANT Conservative, compassionate conservatism got us NOWHERE)
To: dfwgator
“They Might Be Giants” ping!
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posted on
06/01/2009 12:26:26 PM PDT
by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd: ON)
To: ArrogantBustard
Closing line.....:
In 2010, AMD said it plans to release eight- to 12-core 45-nm Opteron processors code-named Magny-Cours, and in 2011, 32-nm 12- to 16-core chips code-named Interlagos.
The new processors will run on a new platform, code-named Maranello, and will require a new socket, which means they won't be drop-in compatible with current systems.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
12- to 16-core chips code-named Interlagos. Sigh.... I start saving now, I guess. Maybe with something like this, MS Flight Simulator X can be turned all the way up on ultra high.
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posted on
06/01/2009 1:20:24 PM PDT
by
Big Giant Head
(I should change my tagline to "Big Giant penguin on my Head")
To: Big Giant Head
To: Justaham
A new feature in Istanbul is...
...that you can expect your PC to stop working five times a day while it turns toward Mecca to execute a loud muezzin audio routine. (Your loudness-control will be over-ridden by this routine.)
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posted on
06/01/2009 2:02:14 PM PDT
by
Moltke
To: Marine_Uncle; Big Giant Head
MS Flight Simulator ...with new processors would be good....
I could run Mint Linux and compiz with maybe a dozen desktops....could really get serious with cut and paste and browsing....
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Hey! Finally I’ll be able to REALLY run my Lotus 1-2-3 software. I can’t wait!
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posted on
06/01/2009 2:05:05 PM PDT
by
newfreep
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
With X server running on a Linux or UNIX box people who know what is available in the way of spawning many many windows etc., can do so much with such raw power even on much lesser CPU platforms it is a joke to even talk about windoze products being of any equivalence.
Gee I used to run installed Windows 98 on a old 333MHZ box under Linux and have window games run much faster then windows installed on a 500 plus MHZ box.
Linux has such great memory management and clean up of processes. They keep inmproving it to a point where further improvements from a processing standpoint in software will reach a end point. Then only faster CPU implementations will make a difference.
In fact, that point is probably already here. Can't say for sure since I have not been involved with these new generation PC.
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posted on
06/01/2009 4:14:08 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(I still believe Duncan Hunter would have been the best solution... during this interim in time....)
To: dfwgator
So, why’d Constantinople get the works?
To: Billthedrill
That’s nobody’s business but AMD.
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posted on
06/01/2009 4:17:05 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The Huskies are Gator Bait!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
launched its six-core server processor code-named Istanbul, saying computer makers this month would be selling high-powered products incorporating the chip... Intel announced that it would begin production of an eight-core Nehalem-EX processor... systems are expected in 2010.
Thanks Ernest.
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posted on
06/01/2009 7:26:38 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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