AMD Company plans to release its 45- nm servers processors with shanghai code names in the second-half of this year. These new solutions, will support: the system bus HT3.0, IPC (instruction-per clock enhancement) and have from 2 to 6 MB cache in the third level.
Istanbul, 6 core servers will use socket F1 (1207), and it will appear in the second-half of 2009. As it is expected, such processors will allow OEM- producers to reduce expenditures for the development of platforms and to increase the productivity of system per W. The special feature of these processors will be the Direct connect architecture, which will allow to accelerate interaction between system processors .
The third generation AMD opteron and g34 socket platform are expected in first half of 2010. Socket g34 platforms will operate with DDR3 memory , it will use the chipset AMD RD890 and HT3.0 system bus . Furthermore, AMD plan to use a supplemental line HT3.0. The g34 platform will be used with both 6 and 12- core processor : Sao paolo and Magny cours.
According to associate :12- core processor will not be native , but it will use two 6 core chips in the multi-chip packaging.