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#AMD’s #MagnyCours and #HyperTransport Interconnect: High Core Count Blast from the Past
Magny Cours chip is basically two #PhenomII X6 #CPU dies side by side. Two dies are connected via HyperTransport links, which previously bridged multiple sockets starting from the K8 generation.
Technologies available in the late 2000s made core count scaling a difficult task. Magny Cours employed a long list of techniques to push core counts higher while keeping cost under control.
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-magny-cours-and-hypertransport