The chip core war continues, AMD Opteron 6000-series "Magny-Cours" with twelve core will be released in the first quarter of 2010. AMD’s twelve-core Opteron “Magny-Cours” will compete against Intel’s eight-core Xeon MP “Nehalem-EX”. The new chips have 119 percent better performance than AMD’s earlier versions. It is designed for Server class machines.
