It seems only yesterday that AMD shook up the staid server market with the introduction of its Opteron line of server processors. With a micro-architecture that included significant technologies, from having native 64-bit x86 instructions while retaining 32-bit support to the use of HyperTransport links for inter-processor communications and an integrated memory controller, the Opteron was an entirely different beast from its competitors and quickly gained market share.
It hasn't always been plain sailing since but it's clear that the Opteron brand is here to stay. We have seen with our own eyes the processor growing from two to four cores and now, on its sixth anniversary, AMD has taken the opportunity to announce that its upcoming 'Istanbul' 6-core processor is months ahead of schedule and is expected to launch in June this year from OEMs. We guess the big unveiling will take place during Computex 2009 where AMD has customarily made big ticket announcements.
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