Was AMD the First to Produce an 8-Core and a 12-Core Processor?

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Was Advanced Micro Devices the first manufacturer to Produce an 8-Core and a 12-Core central processing unit?

Opteron 6136 is an 8-Core Processor and the Opteron 6176 SE is a 12-Core Processor and they were both released on March 29, 2010.

 

[FairDoos]

I don't remember because its such old news Intel have just made a 64-core processor haha

 

[Ethan3.14159]

Yes, they were the first to release 8 and 12 core CPU's to the public.

 

[FairDoos]

Yes, they were the first to release 8 and 12 core CPU's to the public.

He asked if the first manufacturer to Produce an 8-Core and a 12-Core central processing unit was AMD not were they the one's to first release it?

 

[Bacon]

I don't remember because its such old news Intel have just made a 64-core processor haha

Off-topic, but: http://www.tilera.com/products/TILE-Gx.php

 

[bomberboysk]

AMD was the first to retail with the magny cours server chips awhile back...me and a buddy were talking about how a quad socket G34 board and some of the 12 core chips would make a nice folding@home bigadv rig, or a good rig for rendering(we're both into sketchup and kerkythea).

 

[Intel_man]

8 cores? 12 cores? 64 cores?


pshh.


80 Cores!!!
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/11/intel-demonstrates-80-core-processor/

 

[ganzey]

^^lol, almost 3 years ago and they are just poppin out the6 core's. fail on intels side

 

[CrayonMuncher]

Off-topic, but: http://www.tilera.com/products/TILE-Gx.php

i was just about to link to that, they offer up to 100 cores in the tile gx and they are avaiable they are part of mit

the full line up is here

http://www.tilera.com/products/processors.php

 

[2048Megabytes]

I am more impressed personally with the PCI Express Solid State Drives with 600 megabyte per second read speeds than I am with a 12-Core processor presently.

 

[valtopps]

me to, do you really need 6 cores???????

 

[2048Megabytes]

me to, do you really need 6 cores???????

I don't hear anyone complaining about the processing power of the i7 Quad-Core, but I do think that a 100 megabyte per second read speed in a hard drive is a major bottleneck in a system.