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Intel company already proposes dunnington processors with six cores, while company AMD promises to present the six-core processors Istanbul not earlier than the fourth quarter 2009. Those, processors are intended for server solutions. Furthermore, in the second quarter of the following year Intel plans to present the six-core processors gulftown, which will be released on 32 nm technology.
Associate report that AMD demonstrated the processor Istanbul with six-core . These processors will become the evolutionary successors of shanghai, they will preserve compatibility with socket F, support to the DDR-2 memory and 6 MB cache in the third level. The hyperTransport bus will work in the regimes, determined by specifications 3.0. Information about the use of triple-channel memory controller was not confirmed - istanbul processors as before use only dual -channel controller. Those processors will be released on 45 nm technology.
System with four Istanbul processors has 24 cores. One of the prime advantages for Istanbul processors is the reverse compatibility with socket F motherboards. Users will be able to increase the number of processor core in each socket, having simply updated the bios . Related Products :
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