AMD Hydra 8-Core CPU , Montreal eight-core native from AMD
After Deneb & Propus 45nm K10.5 Quad-cores AMD plans to change the process and improve the K10.5 cores. The new process is called 45nm K10.5 Rev. D and it will bring high K to 45nm SOI cores. K10.5 Rev. C is the 45nm SOI process that AMD plans to use for Deneb & Propus 45nm cores. AMD calls Rev D cores Hydra and these are the chips that will really go against Intel Nehalem.
AMD Hydra 8X
The new K10.5 Rev. D supports 1MB L2 per core, which is twice as much as in current K10 CPUs and 6MB L3 cache memory.
Multi Core CPU
The most important feature is that it will be able to get you eight cores and we believe this is eight-core native design and not MCM (Multi Chip Module), as many have suggested before.
As far as the brute computing performance is concerned, it is estimated that Hydra 8x CPU will be able to deliver stock core frequencies of over 3 GHz. The Hydra chips will arrive on the market in mid-2009 or even later.
