AMD heads for ‘Istanbul’ with six cores

AMD announced that it will deliver a processor of Opteron of six-core in June this year.

The company said that the processor is `called Istanbul and will offer to 30 percent more execution in the same envelope of power as the current parts of quadruple-core.

The company said that the piece will be delivered to the months of the market in front of the program. In a post of blog, John Fruehe, the director of AMD of development of the businesses for products of waiter and work station said that the reason of this that the new piece of six-core is based on, �- is strongly made a success of �Changha� � design. With a strongly powerful design of core and a 45nm very well-comprised process, the manufacture of the jump starting from core 4 with core 6 was. instantaneous

If you realize a great work on the design, and nail it to you the first time, you can shave months, or quarters, with far from the calendar of the project. Our current programs are a will with the capacities of our teams of technology around the world.�

As with the majority again processor launches nowadays, AMD indicated that Istanbul will be well adapted to the environments mutli-threaded such as the virtualisation, and as Fruehe put, this kind of use, �will be able to eat to the top of these additional cores with a smile on their face. Moreover greater levels of parallelism can help more work to obtain made simultaneously for a greater effectiveness - and we provide that it with all is possible in same the power and temperatures which you see today with �Changha��.

AMD also announced its directly bound architecture, which will allow systems with 12 cores. We can also await us so that 8-12 processors of core arrive in 2010, like Opteron 6000 series for the waiters 2P and 4P, whereas Opteron 4000 series is planned for 2010 for the systems 1P and 2P with four and the processors of six-core.

Also indicated have is plans of transformer technology 32nm, with 12-16 processors of core in the drain. Called, the �bulldozer�, the pieces are programmed for 2011 and will be constant on the platform of �Maranello�. 6 a piece of the core 32nm, called weill of Valence of `� accompany it, and will function in �platform of San Marino�.