While AMD vanished dual as well as quad core chase to Intel, it scored a point over its opponent Intel with its Six-core Istanbul chip. As well as now if news is to be believed then it may enlarge its lead above Intel in 12-core race as well! Allegedly, the corporation is all set to launch the world's former 12-core processor in the year 2010. Dubbed as Magny-Cours, the CPU will be assemble using 45nm fabrication development, as well as make use of the similar essential core microarchitecture as the present Shanghai quad-core server processor.

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The basic design behind Magny-Cours is straightforward: take two six-core Istanbul processors, downclock them a bit to lessen power, as well as compress them into a multichip module (MCM) so that they can fit into a sole socket. By using an MCM, AMD will be capable to fit 12 cores into the similar thermal and power envelope as Istanbul.