Chips and CheeseAMD’s Magny Cours and HyperTransport Interconnect

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AMD’s Magny Cours and HyperTransport Interconnect: A High Core Count Blast from the Past
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(author: Chester Lam)

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AMD’s Magny Cours and HyperTransport Interconnect: A High Co…

Today, we’re used to desktop processors with 16 or more cores, and several times that in server CPUs. But even prior to 2010, Intel and AMD were working hard to reach higher core counts. AMD’s “Magny Cours”, or Opteron 6000 series, was one such effort. Looking…