12-core CPUs From AMD on Their Way

Friday, April 18 2008

Shanghai, the 45nm core from AMD, is likely to debut late this year. It will be similar in many aspects to the currently-availabe B3 stepping of the Socket 1207 Opteron (Barcelona) shipping today. Unlike Barcelona however, which has its HyperTransport 3.0 clock generator fused off, Shangai should utilize HyperTransport 3.0 for inter-CPU communication. Also, AMD has a new "native six-core" Shanghai derivative in store, currently codenamed Istanbul. This processor is clearly targeted at Intel's recently announced six-core, 45nm Dunnington processor. AMD plans to utilize 2 Istanbul cores to create a 12-core CPU, where both cores will communicate with each other via HyperTransport 3.0. A quad-channel memory controller may also be possible. All new Shanghai CPUs should be backwards compatible with existing Socket 1207 motherboards.

Shanghai is currently taped out and running Windows at AMD.

Source: DailyTech

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User comments

by GSG-9 (April 18th - 4:32 PM) - Reply

I sure hope this is an Ace for AMD, they need to come ahead again, (and possibly not lose money in a Q4 of 08?)

by paybackdaman (April 18th - 4:36 PM) - Reply

Sounds like they are trying to win over the business world like Intel did in the 90's. AMD, I think, is more interested in getting their money from corporations and big business then from individuals. AMD is becoming Intel in the 80's and 90's.

by a111087 (April 18th - 4:37 PM) - Reply

go AMD!!! this is like Intel's approach and i think they will do great if 45nm will cut the power requirements by about half or so

by cdawall (April 18th - 4:42 PM) - Reply

45nm wont cut any power at all unless they change the voltage manuf. size makes no difference in heat generated

by mdm-adph (April 18th - 4:49 PM) - Reply

So... will we have Intel aficionados complaining that this isn't a "native" 12-core chip? :laugh:

by a111087 (April 18th - 5:07 PM) - Reply

by: mdm-adph
So... will we have Intel aficionados complaining that this isn't a "native" 12-core chip? :laugh:

alright, no need to agitate. AMD users also used "duct tape" phrases :laugh:

by thoughtdisorder (April 18th - 5:23 PM) - Reply

Looks sweet! Nice job AMD!:toast:

by cdawall (April 18th - 5:37 PM) - Reply

by: mdm-adph
So... will we have Intel aficionados complaining that this isn't a "native" 12-core chip? :laugh:

no cause they wont have a native 12core either

by WarEagleAU (April 18th - 5:44 PM) - Reply

Wow, this is surprising news. I didnt think they would do a 12 die true core so this is pretty awesome. Wonder what they got for the Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3 deal.

by a111087 (April 18th - 5:55 PM) - Reply

by: WarEagleAU
I didnt think they would do a 12 die true core so this is pretty awesome.

lol, its just 6 true core die and 12core is just 2dies

by jbunch07 (April 18th - 6:19 PM) - Reply

glad to see this!
AMD ftw!
i really hope this helps them out.

by Morgoth (April 18th - 6:27 PM) - Reply

just wait. just wait
nehalem wil eat this 12 cored cpu as luanche

by cdawall (April 18th - 6:29 PM) - Reply

ummm no they have run several test the phenom 9850 stacks dead even against the intel Q9650 @ the same 3.2ghz

by Ravenas (April 18th - 6:29 PM) - Reply

I suspect poor OCing performance on the horizon from 12 core AMDs!

by jbunch07 (April 18th - 6:34 PM) - Reply

great...not another AMD v.s.Intel thread....i thought this topic was about AMD!?

by patton45 (April 18th - 6:37 PM) - Reply

poor oc performance if this current generation even after the b3 stepping fix is any indication amd chips will be a big pain in the but to oc

by [I.R.A]_FBi (April 18th - 6:51 PM) - Reply

by: jbunch07
great...not another AMD v.s.Intel thread....i thought this topic was about AMD!?

It not a versus, its just facts ..Current Phenoms suck.

by a111087 (April 18th - 6:52 PM) - Reply

alright, the oc perf. of amd cpu's was never as great as Intel cpu's and yet people were buying it, so...

by a111087 (April 18th - 6:53 PM) - Reply

by: [I.R.A]_FBi
It not a versus, its just facts ..Current Phenoms suck.

this is sad but i have to agree, so far phenom has not proven to be better that intel offerings

by suraswami (April 18th - 7:26 PM) - Reply

by: cdawall
ummm no they have run several test the phenom 9850 stacks dead even against the intel Q9650 @ the same 3.2ghz

Any link?

by a111087 (April 18th - 7:49 PM) - Reply

by: suraswami
Any link?

by patton45 (April 18th - 9:11 PM) - Reply

i just hope its not like the pentium d's which maximum pc called two duck taped together p4's it was great at encoding/decoding but any other bechmark it got smacked by amd i hope that amd puts the cores together like intel does with their quad cores. it will be interesting to see how it fairs considering intel only plans to have octa cores out by the end of 08 start of 09

by cool_recep (April 18th - 9:36 PM) - Reply

Istanbul, a city in Turkey, formerly named Konstantinopolis, the city where i live....Nice...

by panchoman (April 18th - 9:41 PM) - Reply

notice that amd finnally got their shit together after one of the main guys from amd resigned.

by spearman914 (April 18th - 10:28 PM) - Reply

I was like "HOLY ****" when I read the title. I thought you meant AMD will release CPUs with "12" cores so we should call it triple quad cores.

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