14 DAY TRIAL // With Computex swiftly approaching, more and more manufacturers have started announcing the products they plan to showcase at the upcoming fair, and things in Tyan's booth are bound to get pretty hot as the company will showcase both Intel LGA-2011 Romley and 16-core AMD Interlagos servers.
While the press release sent out by the company is scarce in details, this seems to point out that both AMD and Intel are on track with their next-generation server platforms which are scheduled for a Q3, and respectively Q4 2011, launch.
The Intel Romley platform is comprised out of the company's LGA-1356 and LGA-2011 Xeon processors, built using the Sandy Bridge-E high performance architecture, and the Patsburg-B chipset.
The chips will be released in the Xeon E5 CPU series and can pack up to 20 MB L3 cache, 2 QPI links, 40 PCIe Gen3 lanes, 4 DMI 2.0 lanes, and an integrated quad-channel DDR3 memory controller that support up to three DIMMs per channel for a maximum of 96GB.
LGA 1366 chips will get only a three channel memory controller and less PCI Express lanes, but otherwise they share pretty much the same design.
Intel's Xeon E5 processors support up to eight processing cores and can run up to 16 threads simultaneously thanks to Hyper-Threading support.
Moving to AMD's Interlagos processors, these will be based on the Bulldozer architecture, pack 12 or 16 processing cores, a quad-channel memory controller as well as up to 16MB of Level 3 cache memory.
The chip uses the same motherboard socket (G34) as the company's current Opteron 6000-series processors and are built by Globalfoundries using the 32nm SOI technology.
The Computex 2011 fair will be held between May 31 and June 4 in Taipei, Taiwan and Tyan will showcase its products in the Nangang Hall, booth L407.