The XtremeSystems Forums member s7e9h3n got his hands on a sample of AMD’s upcoming 12-core Magny-Cours Opteron. This chip is expected to be released in Q1 2010 but s7e9h3n (don’t try to type his name fast!) already had the opportunity to do some overclocking, he managed to raise the clockspeed of the chip from 1.7GHz to 3GHz.

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Now that AMD has rolled out their more powerful Istanbul Opterons, the company is now gearing up the the launch for their lower cost Suzuka chips.

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HP has announced the availability of the first Istanbul powered workstations.

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It won’t be very long anymore before AMD’s six-core Istanbul server processors will become available in high volume, and you know what ? That’s the start of a new multi-core race. AMD unveiled it aims to release a 12-core part in 2010 already, and a model with 16 cores in 2011.

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We all know Intel’s Nehalem-based Xeons are targeting server and workstation computers, but today AMD lifted some secrets of it’s upcoming products, and thus future, with its six-core Opteron processor code-named “Istanbul”.

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