AMD: the world's first 12-core processor has begun shipping

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At least 95% of the market would not have cared about that, Right?

have you ever worked with those 4s 73xx and 74xx bandwidth starving servers?

95% of the market, no rather 5% of the intel server market and most bought by fouls thinking they buy the right server while it is total junk equal to the pentium xeon era.

I am sure there will be no 3Ghz "stock" 12 core from AMD but there will be a X5680 which has 3.33ghz stock from Intel.

But then again the prices matter, Intel will start its 6 cores from 2.66ghz to 3.33Ghz. AMD will start of its 12 core cpu from 1.9Ghz till 2.3Ghz and the 8 cored ones from 2.0Ghz till 2.4Ghz.

I dont think the AMD 8 core cpu would be much of a match for a Intel six core 2P but Intel quads even the ones based on Gulftown are in danger.

This is the way i see it:

Hex Lisbon 2P < Quad Gulftown 2P < Octa Magny Cours 2P < Hex Gulftown 2P < Dodeca Magny Cours 2P < Octa Magny Cours 4P < Octa Beckton 4P ~ Dodeca Magny Cours 4P < Octa Beckton 8P

beckton is a whole different story, aiming for other market share (RISC - sparc) and to expensive to compare against 4P magny cours, not to mention already 1-2 years delayed, sounds like itanium