In order to prove that it can recover from the Barcelona disaster with Shanghai, AMD recently demonstrated working Istanbul six-core silicon.

The company which had had three demos to show off showed the fist with four sockets, and the last with two. A different feature of the new CPUs, cores, virtualization and compatibility was showed off by each. Unfortunately, there were no announcements regarding the speed, prices, or availability.

In the first demo, the core count was demonstrated in which four sockets were presented, each running a six-core Istanbul CPU is 24 cores.

The next was a virtualization demo on a two-socket desktop system and in it, silicon was up, running and working at least as well as Shanghai for virtualization.

Last but not the least was an interoperability demo. The company took two 4S systems, one with Shanghai's and the other with Istanbul boards, on the surface after which they swapped them.

The sources reported, "If you simply upgrade the BIOS of any S1207 board, assuming they followed the rules and put in split voltage planes, it should work just fine with 6 cores. Istanbul needs split voltage planes, Shanghai didn't require it."