Rumor: Zen-based Opterons have up to 32 cores and 128 PCIe lanes
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There's been a lot of talk about AMD's next series of Opterons based on the new Zen architecture. Earlier this year, a CERN engineer revealed that Zen server processors would have up to 32 cores and eight channels of DDR4 memory. Now, Fudzilla is reporting that the massive microprocessor, which the site calls "Naples," will have 64MB of last-level cache, 128 PCI Express 3.0 lanes, and an LGA socket called SP3.
The rumor claims that Zen processors will range from that huge 32-core package all the way down to dual-cores. Thermal design power on the new chips purportedly ranges from 35W up ...