AMD plans 16-core server chip -- but not until 2011

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. stated today that him 's designing a processor of waiter with to 16 cores, which would quadruple the account in the company 'the existing pieces of Opteron of quadruple-core of S.

But the new piece, which is Interlagos called and slated to support between 12 and 16 cores of processor, will be to come from long time. The processor gained 't is released until 2011, the civils servant of AMD declared during a press conference of webcast. They added that Interlagos will be a follow-up with a processor Magny-Course called of 12 cores of the plans of this AMD to release in the next year 'quarter of S the first.

According to AMD, the future 16 pieces of core will be able to enter waiters with two to four casings of processor, having for result a maximum of 64 cores per system. The piece will belong to the supplier 's Opteron 6000 series, that the civils servant of AMD declared will be employed mainly in waiters of center of data processing.

The increase in the accounts of core in the pieces is a manner for AMD and leader of Intel Corp. market of microprocessor to improve the execution while trying to reduce the power. It can also lower the number of necessary waiters to the centers of data processing, which should help to reduce the acquisition of material and the costs energy for customers, said Pat Patla, vice-president of AMD 'of unit of platform of waiter of S.

AMD will take an initial measure beyond its current limit of four-core the next month. During a conference call yesterday on its financial results of the first quarter, which included a dead loss $416 million, the company said that it will embark a six-core Opteron Istanbul called in May, one earlier of month than envisaged.

When the pieces of Interlagos are ready for the release, they probably will be aimed to the waiters which handle workloads requiring the abundance of capacity for treatment, such as accomodating current databases and simulations, said senior McCarron, analyst principal in the search of Mercury in the split of cave, Ariz. It to be moment before 16 cores is, traditional it said.

The line of Opteron competes with Intel 'family of piece of waiter of S Xeon. Intel released the Xeon six-core 7400 series last September. But up to now, largest Xeon which he discussed publicly is a Nehalem piece called of eight-core EX, which had for the release the next year.

Intel also announced plans for has much-core per piece called Larrabee which is programmed to be transported at the beginning of 2010, but which is a processor of graphs aimed at AMD 'with product and devices of S ATI of Nvidia Corp.
In spite of the push to increase the number of cores in the processors, there 's more with the execution of amplification that just doing that, Patla noted. He said that AMD 'pieces of S future also will include the advanced devices of management of power which will make it possible users to manually cover the quantity of energy that the cores can consume and cut the idle those.

Moreover, AMD envisages to double the number of virtual machines which can be constant by the pieces of Opteron and add new whole of instruction to improve the capacity of the processors to carry out tasks in the virtualized environments, according to Patla.

In the processors due for the release the next year and in 2011, AMD also envisages to add the support of more than memory and hiding-place. But there are some obvious devices missing, like multifile, that Intel already presented in its pieces.

Us �about the execution not leaning, Patla indicated, adding that the improvements envisaged of piece are balanced and that AMD wants to provide the value without going over edge on devices. The plans of improvement also are conceived to align with HIM directors � concern conce