Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
Well, since I am in the server world, I don't comment on desktop plans.
You just did


There were requests to take the Istanbul die and turn it into a Phenom and I said this would not happen because Istanbul is a server-only die. That continues to be true.
Ahh .. that is too much bean counter / marketing slang. Yes - Istanbul is a server die, because you marketing guys named it like that in the server segment / Socket-F package. Let's use the more practical engineering term "Hydra". A Hydra would fit nicely into an AM3 package, AMD's designs are very flexible, you should know that better than me

If it would be a great success in the desktop segment without a Turbo mode is another question.

Anyways, I guess your desktop colleagues would came up with a nice "desktop die" code name very soon - and of course that desktop die would be desktop only and be never be usable in servers.

It would have been the same as with the Greyhound die, which was used exclusively as Deneb desktop die. Once upon the time there were plans for special server dies named Shanghai and Suzuka. However it was not possible

And bulldozer will support both unbuffered and registered memory. Those DIMM counts are for registered memory.
Of course, because Bulldozer is not the exclusive server die code name. I told you that AMD designs are flexible, didnt I ?
However, we spoke about Lisbon and Thuban before. That are again the "special" desktop / server die names. I wonder if the difference is more than the memory support.

Thanks for the reply !