AMD Company already demonstrated the working models of opteron 6000 (Magny-Cours) processor series , having twelve cores. In the same series AMD is going in the first quarter 2010 to present processors with eight cores. They will be based on Socket g34 on 45 nm technology, and support four-channel memory DDR-3.
Until now, AMD used monolithic multi core packing, whereas Intel began to increase the quantity of core in the processor with the union of two crystals on one base layer. Intel did not change its tradition - the 32 nm processors clarkdale and Arrandale will obtain the build 45 nm north bridge, which will include a memory and PCI express bus controllers, and also graphic core.
Server processors magny-Cours in its elder version obtained from AMD will combine on one base layer two six-core crystal generation Istanbul. Each of crystals will use their dual-channel controller memory with DDR-3 support , and the data transmission between the halves of processor can be achieved on the hyperTransport 3.0 bus. Six megas-byte cache in the third level will be used for the needs of memory optimization , which will allow to decrease delays at the system level.
AMD representatives also acknowledged to our associates that the future processors with bulldozer architecture will actually support the analog to hyper-Threading technology, which allow each core to process several threads simultaneously.