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AMD's "Istanbul" Chip to Launch Next Tuesday

Posted 05/28/09 at 05:01:46 PM  by Andy Salisbury

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According to reports, AMD’s six-core Istanbul server processor is set to be unveiled this upcoming Tuesday.

The chip is slated for its official unveiling at the Computex conference on June 2nd. It is meant to rival Intel’s Dunnington processor, and will sport 6MB of L3 cache to share amongst the cores. Each core will also have 512 KB of L2 cache per, and will presumably feature DDR3 support (depending on the socket).

According to the chip’s lead architect, Hans de Vries, AMD will be pitting two of these against one of Intel’s offering, thanks to the size of the chip. The Istanbul chip is reported to only take up 300 square millimeters, while the Dunnington is expected to take up 700 square millimeters.

Edit: Turns out that 700 million square millimeters is about 4.3x the size of a volleyball court. Mistake corrected.

Image Credit: AMD

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TAGS: amd, intel, server, cpu, processor, hardware, Dunnington, Istanbul
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avatarIs 6 cores all they could

Submitted by Marcbman on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 4:42pm

Is 6 cores all they could do?

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/intel_ship_8core_server_processors_later_fall

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avatarAMD Chips....

Submitted by Devo85x on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 4:32am

AMD chips are known to run EXTREAMLY hot compaired to intel, if you really want 8 cores, then youll be the one who has to pay for an insane cooling setup (if those 8 cores are AMD)

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avatarMaybe...

Submitted by Nipyf2 on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 4:21pm

Intel has kept delaying virtually all of its new projects.  It doesn't matter what AMD have on the drawing boards but what they have right now... and doesn't Intel already have 6 core procs.

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avatartrue but you have to keep in

Submitted by nekollx on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 3:41pm

true but you have to keep in mind their doinf a 2 for one comparison

 

presumably they woull disable 2 cores on a 8 core i7 for a fair test so you will have 12 cores vs 6 cores/12 threads

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avatarA fair comparison would

Submitted by Number Six on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 4:05pm

A fair comparison would actually be matching the price point.  If Intel can deliver 8-cores for the price of AMD's 6, then that's what matters.  OTOH, if AMD can deliver a dual 6-core system for the price of a single Nehalem EX, it will be an AMD 12-core vs. Intel 8-core server slugfest.

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avatarImpressive...

Submitted by Number Six on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 3:27pm

24 (4 CPUs x 6 cores) procs showing up in task manager, but it pales in comparison to Nehalem EX.  Eight cores with HT, a four-way server will show 64 threads.  This is what that looks like: http://tinyurl.com/5skrec

IBM has a 8-way Nehalem EX in the works.  That will show 128 CPUs in task manager!

-Six

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avatarlet's make our way to

Submitted by nekollx on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 3:17pm

let's make our way to Constantinople.

 

Cause Istabul is no Constantinople.

 

let's make our way to Constantinople.

 

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