Socket G34 for AMD 8- and 12-core processors

Dailytech has acquired a drawing of AMD's new socket, designed for large 8- and 12-core processor with a DDR3 memorycontroller. The first processor for this socket is the octacore 'Sao Paulo'. based on two linked 45nm Shanghai quadcore chips. Later on, a twelve-core processor will also be introduced, there's nothing known about that CPU yet. 

The new multicore processor for the new socket, named G34, will have 12MB of shared L3 cache and 512KB L2 cache for each core. The processors will feature four Hypertransport 3.0 links, making is possible to link it to three additional motherboard sockets and still have an HT3 link for a fast connection to for instance a GPU, IBM processor or other specialised chip. THe new G34 socket, which according to Dailytech has 1974 contact points, is also quad-channel DDR3 compatible, a feature which will possibly be integrated into all AMD's processors in 2010. 

The developers should get testversions of the new socket in early 2009 and the first concrete products are expected by 2010. 

Tags: ddr3 hypertransport

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