OSTG Marketing's Journal: AMD demonstrates native quad-core x86 server processor

AMD showed off their stuff at the annual AMD Industry Analyst Forum in California. They demonstrated a server powered by four upcoming Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors (codenamed Barcelona ), manufactured on 65nm silicon-on-insulator process technology, utilizing all 16 cores. "By delivering a consistent thermal envelope while adding two more processing cores, along with micro-architectural enhancements, AMD says that it expects to significantly advance the performance-per-watt capabilities of AMD Opteron processors. The upcoming AMD Opteron processors are based on AMD's Direct Connect Architecture, which aims to reduce bottlenecks found in legacy front-side bus x86 architectures and includes AMD's Integrated Memory Controller."