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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.
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