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AMD outlined plans for server processors to US journalists, mentioning the twelve-core “Magny Cours” for the first time. Scheduled for 2010, it was to be manufactured at 45 nanometres and support DDR3 memory. In the second half of 2008, AMD planned to introduce its first 45-nanometre server processor, the quad-core “Shanghai,” promising around 20 percent more performance than the current Barcelona models.
AMD described Shanghai as a native quad-core design in which all processing cores communicate directly. A native six-core “Istanbul” was planned for the second half of 2009, followed in 2010 by a new generation that included the Sao Paulo native hexa-core architecture and the twelve-core Magny Cours, which combines two six-core Sao Paulo designs on one chip.
AMD said it was coordinating its roadmap with system manufacturers including Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM and Sun.
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