AMD recently had a conference call detailing its near- and long-term roadmaps. The company disclosed the path it is taking with the new Bulldozer and Bobcat cores.

AMD's next-gen Opteron platform packs a punch - dual-socket setup will see 24 cores, 96GB of DDR3 memory and anywhere between 68.2 and 85.3GB/s of system bandwidth.

We've received numerous AMD Opteron articles in our inbox. Sadly, the authors of several articles clearly had no idea about codenames and claimed that "Magny-Cours" is an abbreviation for Many Cores. Oh my...

Good bye symmetry: new Magny Cours and Interlagos CPUs feature the 288-bit quad-channel memory controller and an integrated PCI Express 2.0 controller. A lot of dots to connect on the motherboard as G34 is an LGA package.