AMD drops a 12 (TWELVE) Core Opteron

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http://www.amd.com/us/products/serve...-platform.aspx

I try to keep up with AMD's offerings, but when my son surprised me with this being listed at NewEgg over the weekend I had to do a double-take. The last AMD roadmap I saw had 12-core slated for 2011, not Q2 2010.

Unlike the 6-core Xeon which is hitting the wallet for $2,000, this 12-core Opteron is currently available for just under $800.

SuperMicro even has a single CPU board ready for this beast, though I've not yet seen pricing.
http://www.supermicro.com/G34/AMD_G34.cfm?pg=MOBO
Supports up to 32GB of unbuffered RAM, or if you want to go completely nuts and stuff it with Registered ECC then you can push both the board and the CPU to 128GB

Edit: Forgot to mention quad-channel memory too...