AMD World's First Six Core Sever Processor : Istanbul
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OEMs such as Cray, Dell, HP, IBM and Sun Microsystems are already in the process of churning out new systems based on the new six-core AMD Opteron.
The really great thing about these new processors is that they can be used to field-upgrade existing quad-core Opteron systems as the same Socket-F connector is used. This works out as a real plus point compared to the Intel Nehalem Xeon processors as one would have to go for new main boards, systems, chipsets and sockets.
The Istanbul comes with a power-efficient DDR2memory architecture and AMD virtualization technology.
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