AMD ships 16-core Bulldozer chips for servers, makes consumers wait their turn

By Daniel Cooper posted Sep 7th 2011 2:36PM

AMD's Interlagos, its server-styled Bulldozerchip -- Mr. Opteron 6200 to you and me -- is being pushed out to retailers and OEMs ready for an October launch. AMD is calling it the first 16-core x86 processor, although as we know from the required reading, it has eighttwo-core shared modules rather than 16 independent ones. The chips are compatible with Socket G34 motherboards, but most of this first production run will go straight into supercomputer projects. AMD remains mute on progress of the consumer-level Zambezi, but rumors are that the company can't clock it fast enough to compete with Intel's Core i7-- the very class that Bulldozer was designed to bury.