Enter the Dragon: AMD AM3 6-core desktop arriving in 2010

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Fyi Istanbul is the same as Phenom II x4 920/940 in the IMC situation. DDR3 support is there, present on the die but it is disabled.

It will be the very same with Lisbon except Lisbon won't be able to fit into any socket with DDR2 so therefor it is DDR3 only. So DDR2 and support for current AM2+ 790FX motherboard is very likely.

Maybe you're right, but in this point we're talking about Lisbon, not Istanbul (BTW,are you sure this core's IMC has support for DDR3?, Istambul can't use DDR3 in any system, so it's useless).

If the new cores for C32/G34 use exclusively DDR3 memory, why you would need a dual IMC? in the same way as why you would need DDR3 on Istambul processsor... Maybe dual IMC on the desktop variaton only? Sounds improbably for me

I will glad to see a dual IMC on Thuban, but, Lisbon -> DDR3 so...