Friday, February 20th 2009
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AMD Demos First Six-core Opteron Processors Codenamed Istanbul
AMD today gave the first working demonstration of its six-core Opteron processor codenamed "Istanbul." The 45nm Istanbul server chips will succeed current "Shanghai" Opterons. Istanbul processors will use 6MB of L2 cache, and support HyperTransport and two channels of DDR2 memory per socket. The chips will fit into Socket F server motherboards. First live demonstration of Istanbul was performed on two server systems, one running four processors (24 cores total), and the second running with two processors (12 cores). AMD plans to release a full lineup of six-core Opterons based on Istanbul, including low-power HE versions and high-performance SE models, sometime in the second-half of 2009. Read the full story here.
Source:
The Tech Report
21 Comments on AMD Demos First Six-core Opteron Processors Codenamed Istanbul
thanks for the info though. glad to see they made it to Istanbul testing so fast!
Though likeyou say, he Nehalem based chips won't have these bottlenecks either so will fly straight past them. And to be fair, in this market nobody cares about paying $1000 more.
Cpu's on other hand is expensive! dual socket boards are cheap, however cpu's are expensive.
amd do the 6 core simple because the architecture is designed for multi core
the hypertranport interface can connect from cpu and chipset, or one cpu core with many cpu core, also can be used to adder device. so the simple ideea is not why the amd make a 6-8 core now, but the real ideea is were the 6-8 core will arrive on market (soon as the market require :) )
like a paralel any of you can read this
frist the cell procesor
www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1727&page=1
www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/
Intel's CPUs are HUGE when compared to AMDs. So you won't see anything bigger than 8 core from Intel until they drops to 32nm.
32nm will be AMDs sweetspot for cores... Up to 20 cores. (16 more than likely as it will mean they can make a 20 core CPU, but have a certain amount of cores ready as "repair cores" and later down the road with the stocked "good" 20 core CPUs release them as a high end model..)
Check out two videos of Istanbul's demos. The first video indicates the consistency of AMD's architecture and upgrade from the Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors to Six-Core AMD Opteron Processors (Istanbul). The second video shows Istanbul running on a 2P virtualization platform, highlighting Istanbul's virtualization capabilities.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLbGQ8oraKg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D11uY5dOE2c
Also see Istanbul images here: www.flickr.com/photos/amd_unprocessed/
Plus view a blog post written by John Fruehe, Director of Business Development for Server/Workstation products at AMD here: blogs.amd.com/work/archive/2009/02/24/istanbul-not-constantinople.aspx