What Intel six-core? AMD’s Istanbul dodeca-core is totally hardcore
After Intel’s Dunnington hexa-core hype, AMD has been embarking on an around-the-world epiphany of sorts, tinkering with its Barcelona hexa-core chip to come up with Shanghai, which has the HyperTransport 3.0 clock generator right.
Moreon, Shanghai was pimped out some more to become Istanbul, AMD’s response to Intel’s hexa-core.
Here’s the good bit. The twin-die Istanbul processor could allow you-gotta-be-kidding 12 cores per package, using the ultra-high-speed HyperTransport 3.0 bus to exchange data. What’s more, a single core, with its dual-channel memory controller, will be able to emulate quad-core functions. Enough said.
Verdict:Istanbul isn’t yet meta-conscious computing. Haha.
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