[via techpowerup.com]
AMD has started shipping its 8-core and 12-core “Magny Cours” Opteron processors for sockets G34 (2P-4P+), and C32 (1P-2P). The processors mark entry of several new technologies for AMD, such as a multi-chip module (MCM) approach towards increasing the processor’s resources without having to complicate chip design any further than improving on those of the Shanghai and Istanbul.
[via bit-tech.net]
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If you just can’t wait to get your hands on AMD’s latest 12-cored ‘Magny-Cours’ Opteron processor, perhaps you’d care to risk buying leaked versions from eBay?
The as-yet unreleased dodeca-cored processors have popped up on the auction site under the user account oakvillemehlvillecomputers, available on buy-it-now at an eye-watering $7,700 (£4,880) for a batch of four 2.2GHz processors – designed for quad-processor socket G34 server systems and offering 48 logical processing cores to the host operating system.