PoppaGeek
09-20-2009, 10:11 PM
In the spring, AMD decided to chop its servers into two distinct families and to create two different distinct platforms, one keeping the Maranello name and the other using the "San Marino" name. The Opteron 6000 series processors - which is what the Mangy-Cours Opterons will be sold as - were tweaked to come in eight-core and twelve-core processors using the G34 socket and to sport DDR3 main memory controllers on the chips. This platform kept the Maranello name.
The Maranello platform is aimed at machines with two or four processor sockets. The Opteron 4000 series processors, code-named "Lisbon," replaced the San Paulo chips, and they come in quad-core or six-core variants. These chips are intended to use the C32 socket, support DDR3 memory and PCI-Express 2.0 peripherals, and span one or two socket boxes.
It looks like AMD didn't want to wait for the Maranello and San Marino platforms to roll out a complete family of chipsets, so today, the SR5690, SR5670, and SR5650 I/O hubs will be paired with the SP5100 southbridge to give motherboard and server makers a chance to cook up a wider variety of motherboards than they would have been able to do with the original Fiorano SR5690/SP5100 pairing.
2 page article at Channelregister (http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/09/21/amd_fiorano_chipsets/)
The Maranello platform is aimed at machines with two or four processor sockets. The Opteron 4000 series processors, code-named "Lisbon," replaced the San Paulo chips, and they come in quad-core or six-core variants. These chips are intended to use the C32 socket, support DDR3 memory and PCI-Express 2.0 peripherals, and span one or two socket boxes.
It looks like AMD didn't want to wait for the Maranello and San Marino platforms to roll out a complete family of chipsets, so today, the SR5690, SR5670, and SR5650 I/O hubs will be paired with the SP5100 southbridge to give motherboard and server makers a chance to cook up a wider variety of motherboards than they would have been able to do with the original Fiorano SR5690/SP5100 pairing.
2 page article at Channelregister (http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/09/21/amd_fiorano_chipsets/)