AMD today announced the availability of AMD “Istanbul” Opteron Processor’s by this week end. AMD “Istanbul” Processor’s are 6-Core High end x86 Processor’s designed for Server Use. AMD’s “Istanbul” Processor’s are based on AMD’s 45nm Quad Core “Shangai” architecture. The new Processor’s are also equipped with a new technology called ‘HT Assist’ which helps in significantly improving I/O performance by reducing the traffic generated by the processors in seeking the shortest path to the data. In layman language it means that HT assist keeps a track of the data present in the caches of CPU, Memory, and Hard disk and directly points the Core to the Data it needs, instead of allowing the processor to search for the data.

AMD “Istanbul” processors use the same socket which “Shangai” uses i.e. Socket 1207. AMD reports that the “Istanbul” processors will give a 30% increase in performance per watt with an overall performance improvement of 40 to 50%. AMD also said that they beat their expectations in launching the “Istanbul” processors. AMD launched “Istanbul” processors way before Intel is expected to launch their new Nehalem Ex based CPU’s.

We hope that this new AMD Processor is free from bugs which plagued the launch of AMD Phenom Processors.