Yesterday AMD company presented new server chipset, which next year can ensure the support of the socket c32 and Socket g34 . Simultaneously AMD company confirmed that the processors magny-Cours with twelve cores will be presented in the first quarter 2010.
AMD company promises to present the desktop processors thuban with six cores on one 45 nm crystal not earlier than the third quarter 2010. Yesterday associate with the reference to the words of AMD representatives reported that thuban processor socket AM3 actually will appear in 2010.
The performance Of socket AM3 will allow thuban processors to work also in socket AM2+ motherboards. The characteristics of these processors are similar to their server analog - istanbul. Each of six cores has 512 KB cache in the second level, the cache in the third level with 6 mb volume is divided between the core, dual-channel memory DDR 3-1333. The contemporary processors Istanbul work at frequencies up to 2.8 GHz.