AMD Push 8/12 nuclear server processor anti-attack Intel

AMD today officially launched the latest 8 core and 12 core series of processor products, thus officially in the server sector to the attack on the Horn of Intel. AMD's 8-and 12-core server processors are all in the new 45-NM design, and are all built with a two-processor die package, of which 12 core processors are based on the previously exposed magny-cours core, which is the two core of the 6 nuclear Istanbul cores packaged together,　　The 8-core processor is built with two 4-core processors die packaged together.　　The new 8-core and 12-core processors will support a new G34 slot that provides updated I/O technology and can support up to 12 memory slots per processor because it supports four DDR3 memory channels. The new 8-core and 12-core processor products will be subordinate to the Opteron 6100 series, the lowest starting frequency of 1.8GHz, of which 8 nuclear minimum version of the model Opteron 6124 he, and the highest version of the series is 2.3GHz of 12 core Opteron 6176 SE. In the Opteron 6100 series, the 1.8GHz 8 nuclear opteron 6124 He power consumption is lower than 65W, the specific price is 455 U.S. dollars, equivalent to 3100 yuan in the early. The 2.3GHz 12 core Opteron 6176 se power Consumption is 105W, the price is 1386 U.S. dollars, equivalent to RMB 9466 yuan.　　The specifications and prices of other products are between these two products. In terms of performance, the AMD Opteron 6100 series is much tougher than the previous 6-core Istanbul processors, according to AMD, the performance of the integer operation up to 88%, while the performance of floating-point operations is increased by more than 119%.　　The Opteron 6000 series server platform will mainly be equipped with four or two slots, that is to say, the entry-level system core number is 16, while the higher-order system core number is up to 48. In contrast to AMD, Intel is also planning to launch a 8 core chip product for the multiprocessor server market, also known as "Nehalem-ex", which should also be close to the official listing.