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Published 6/1/2009 by Brooke Crothers at CNET News - Business Tech

AMD launched its first six-core processor, which will compete against Intel's "Dunnington" chip. The "Istanbul" Opteron processor is for high-end server computers that use two, four, and eight processors or "sockets." Intel has been shipping a six-core processor for this market since September of last year and will bring ... Originally posted at Nanotech - The Circuits Blog (link)

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