First 16-Core Opteron Chips Arrive From AMD

angry tapir writes "After a brief delay and more than a year of chatter, Advanced Micro Devices has announced the availability of its first 16-core Opteron server chips, which pack the largest number of cores available on x86 chips today. The new Opteron 6200 chips, code-named Interlagos, are 25 per cent to 30 per cent faster than their predecessors, the 12-core Opteron 6100 chips, according to AMD."

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Re:Only 16?

[afidel]

No, there are 16 integer pipelines with one scheduler and 4 logic units each, 16 128bit floating point units that can also be combined into 8 256bit units, and 8 fetch/decode units. This is not a MCU, it's one chip with the above mentioned components. Whether it's 16 cores or 8 or 4 modules is kind of academic unless you are trying to optimize a scheduler for it in which case the label's still don't matter, only the actual implementation and achievable performance matter.