AMD starts shipping 12-core Opterons2010-02-23 11:11 by DanielaTags: AMD, Magny-Cours
AMD has begun limited revenue shipments of its upcoming 12-core "Magny-Cours" Opterons. The new chips will be officially released before the end of the quarter, according to an AMD blog. Magny-Cours will compete with other high-end processors from Intel, IBM and Sun. Advanced Micro Devices has begun limited shipments of its upcoming "Magny-Cours" Opterons, and will launch the high-end processors by the end of the current quarter. In a blog post Feb. 22, John Fruehe, director of product marketing for server/workstation products at AMD, said that production of the eight- and 12-core Opteron 6100 chips has begun at the Dresden, Germany, facilities of Globalfoundries, the manufacturer that was created after being spun off from AMD in 2009. Production of the processors began in January, and systems makers started receiving production parts this month, Fruehe said in the blog. "We have had a few select end customer opportunities that have been fulfilled, but it is nothing we can talk about publicly," he wrote. Read more -here-
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