AMD Company , decided to present the first processors with six core within the old platform. In particular, if the six-core processors dunnington from Intel will be the monolithic union of three dual core processors penryn generation , then AMD decided to release its istanbul processors with six core on 45 nm technology and Socket F.
Today appeared some new information about the 45 nm processors shanghai, and also information about AMD plans in the near future. According to those data shanghai processors will be up to 35% faster than its 65 nm predecessors, and the energy consumption level in this case will be lowered by 30%.
In 2009 AMD and Intel will pass to the use of six-core processors and three(triple)-channel memory. AMD Company will present the six-core processors istanbul socket F with the DDR-2 support in the fourth quarter 2009. Does this indicate that istanbul processors will support three(triple)-channel memory? It is completely possible, since the memory controller is integrated in the processor and socket F motherboard have a sufficient amount of DIMM slots .
Sao paulo processors with six core and DDR3 memory support will be released in the first half 2010, they will get the socket g34. These processors will also have the three(triple)-channel memory controller simultaneously with istanbul processors , which support only DDR-2.