AMD puts on the ritz with six-core Opteron demo

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by Scott Wasson — 1:08 AM on February 20, 2009

How does 24 cores in Task Manager sound? We saw it happen when AMD gave us an exclusive first demo of its upcoming six-core Opteron in action. Could this be the answer to Nehalem that AMD needs?

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