AMD shows off six-core Istanbul
The Inquirer has an interesting article about new AMD goodness!
MD HAS SHOWN that it can recover from the Barcelona disaster with Shanghai and the consumer variants thereof. To prove it is not a one-off fluke, the company was showing off working Istanbul six-core silicon a few days ago.
MD HAS SHOWN that it can recover from the Barcelona disaster with Shanghai and the consumer variants thereof. To prove it is not a one-off fluke, the company was showing off working Istanbul six-core silicon a few days ago.
It had three demos to show off, two with four sockets, the last with two. Each one showed off a different feature of the new CPUs, cores, virtualisation and compatibility. Sadly, no speeds, prices, or availability were discussed.
Count the cores, 4x6 = 24
The first demo was the core count. What can you say? Four sockets each running a six-core Istanbul CPU is 24 cores, enough to drive a scheduler mad. The system it was running on is an internal AMD development chassis nicknamed 'Warthog' because it is ugly but functional, and the program is an internal stress-testing tool. Keeping 24 cores nearly at full boil isn't exactly easy.
Four OSes on 12 cores
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