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HT Assist – what is it?
Scalable Performance with HyperTransportTM Technology HT Assist: With the release of the Six-Core AMD OpteronTM processor, formerly code-named “Istanbul”, an important new hardware feature called HT Assist has been included that helps increase performance on 4-socket and 8-socket AMD OpteronTM … Continue reading
“Istanbul” overview
Today, AMD is launching the “Istanbul” processor. Since our first dual-core processor, those of us in AMD’s CPU ISV team have been evangelizing that more cores are coming. This processor contains 6 cores on one die. Just to be clear … Continue reading
“Shanghai” blog category is now “Istanbul” blog category
With the launch of the new Six-Core AMD OpteronTM processors (codenamed “Istanbul”), the powerful follow-up to the “Shanghai” processors, we’re updating the title of this blog category to reflect the information you will now find here. Don’t worry, the previous … Continue reading
“Shanghai: Zone is now “Istanbul” Zone
Looking for our “Shanghai” Zone? All the content and resources you expected to find are still there, but we’ve added some new information about AMD’s follow-up to the Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM processor (codenamed “Barcelona”, and “Shanghai”) and have renamed the … Continue reading




