This is one very exciting news, precisely the kind of happening that made us launch this fan club! We talked about how Intel 4004 started it all at the launch program. That has 2300 transistors on board. This 12 core processor has 2 billion of them! That is roughly a million times increase!
The latest AMD Opteron chip comes after the 6 core version. This 12 core version is expected to double the performance of the processor over the 6 core version. We are not likely to see this on the desktop soon but it will help with the servers in data centers. Read the news announcement here.
This also amazes me for another reason. This is a x86 compatible architecture! The staying power of the architecture is unbelievable! It started with the IBM PC back in early eighties and almost three decades on the architecture still lives!
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