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Last time we know the Intel processor vendor will release 8-core of CPU, now AMD has introduced a version of six of its Opteron server chip designed for the most demanding of working data, such as databases and server consolidation using virtualisation.

Code Istanbul six-core chip is available immediately, a few months ahead of schedule. It is expected to appear in four systems from Dell, HP, IBM and Sun in the near future.

Istanbul provides up to 34 percent more than last year’s performance in Shanghai quad-core chip running at the same clock speed as AMD. It falls into the same power envelope of Shanghai, and even uses the same socket infrastructure so that existing systems can be improved.

Six cylinders with higher performance per dollar. More performance, same power, “said Pat Patla, AMD Vice President of the division of servers and workstations.

Patla said AMD’s strategy is to put more emphasis on the “use-based scenarios. In this context, the company believes that Istanbul will be used for the workload that require high-end scalability and increased performance, while the chips quad core is now capable of clouds and dense computing environments where efficiency is critical.

“Virtualization and the optimization of conduct are needed more than carrots. We must address six, Patla said.

A new approach to Istanbul is HT Assist, which aims to improve the efficiency of the HyperTransport interconnect to reduce the amount of traffic between the sensor chips in a multi-outlet. To put aside some of each chip L3 cache to act as a directory, if the tracking information required is already in the cache of another processor and can be retrieved more quickly than out of memory

“The CPU knows exactly which [other] processor to go to for the information it needs instead of sending out broadcast requests, making for more efficient memory access,” Patla said.

A promising in Istanbul-based provider of systems in the near future is HP. Paul Gottsegen, Vice President of Marketing for the business of the company’s servers, said the new chip will appear in servers and workstations xw9400 of the company as a system.

“You see us six to rapidly deploy our base G6 ProLiant line, and all form factors – the blade, rack and tower,” said Gottsegen.

To view Istanbul, Patla said the new chip is 14 times the performance of the first single-core AMD Opteron was introduced in 2003. One of the 314 source data on the basis of this chip could be replaced by only 21 servers based in Istanbul, which represents a 95 percent savings in energy consumption for the same level of performance, such as AMD.

“Or you can make one for an upgrade to a huge increase in performance and still save up to 30 per cent on the annual cost of energy,” he said.

In a dig at rival Intel, Patla said that Istanbul is the only six processors available today, with Direct Connect Architecture, “referring to the family of Opteron chip memory controller and high – speed HyperTransport interconnect their chips.

Intel already has a six-core processor, the Xeon 7400, but uses a single shared bus to all memory accesses. Nehalem’s new architecture similar to the Opteron, but the versions currently available have a maximum of four cores. Nehalem EX will be a maximum of eight, but should not appear in transportation systems through 2010.

Istanbul is available first to a clock speed of 2.6GHz, 2.4GHz and 2.2GHz AMD standard 75W thermal rating. In addition, the clock speed is likely before the end of this year, with the SE (105W), HE (55W) and EE (40W) versions.

A forthcoming AMD platform with up to a dozen cores code Magny-Cours is still scheduled to appear in 2010.