"Magny-Cours" is Right on Schedule, and Shipping to Customers
That distant hum that you hear is the sound of the factory churning out AMD’s most advanced x86 processor ever. Yes, production of the new 8- and 12-core AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processors (codenamed “Magny-Cours”) is underway.
They started their journey weeks ago, in the German state of Saxony, where the GLOBALFOUNDRIES fab began the process of building these marvels of modern silicon technology. Precision German engineering (I am biased after all) is in the heart of making one of the greatest innovations in processor technology.
The wafers begin life as non-descript silicon, but over the weeks of the process, the 8 and 12-core “Magny-Cours” begin to take shape. After the wafers are finished, they head on to Penang, Malaysia for packaging before the final stop in Singapore. There, the test, marking and sort happens, with processors ending up in those trays that you’ve seen so often.
Production began last month and our OEM partners have been receiving production parts this month. We have had a few select end customer opportunities that have been fulfilled, but it is nothing we can talk about publicly.
As a matter of fact, we were not planning to talk about any of this just yet, but earlier this week, someone tried to offer products that they claimed were “Magny-Cours” processors for sale on the web. Obviously the message about 12-core goodness with incredible value is making it out into the market, so much so that somebody wanted to jump on the bandwagon.
I wasn’t really expecting to write this blog just yet, I was hoping to spring that news sometime in the near future, but the internet’s “series of tubes” have been lit up and stole my thunder.
So, there it is, we’re building them now, and we expect that you’ll be seeing a launch before the end of the quarter. With 8 or 12 cores, 4 memory channels and lots of other great technology coming, it’s worth the wait. WELL worth the wait.
John Fruehe is the Director of Product Marketing for Server/Workstation products at AMD. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied.
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Hi John all of this info about the new 8 and 12 cores sounds great,but I would guess this are processors only for servers or they are compatible with AM3 socket?
One more question I hope you have the answer to it,I saw the AMD road map of the 8 core bulldozer which should be 32nm,they said it will be AM3 or AM3+,by any chance if you know if the 32nm 8 core AMD will be compatible with the AM3 socket?
Correct, they are not targeted at client PCs ans will not fit in an AM3 socket. I am a server guy and I can’t speak to client support of Bulldozer.
Benchmarks anyone?
At launch. You will not be disappointed.
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How much ram will the 12 core support?
128GB per processor.
My company is in the middle of a server consolidation project. This announcement is great news. We’ve got about 17VMs per server running on some dual 6 core Citrix Xen systems.
I can’t wait to see what a dual 12 core setup will do for me.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I get everything down to one rack.
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One question or thought, wish to see better heatsink support for this G34, I can’t seem to find a good source or one worth buying.
I am looking at the Supermicro MB for my next build
Supermicro provides barebones systems, so they should also have heatsinks available.
You can also google “socket G34 heatsink” and you will see a selection of heatsinks available.
Is there a source to show how the AMD 8 core works with Photoshop CS5.
I am looking into the SM H8SGL-F using the 6128 and fully load RAM support of DDR1333
Thanks