AMD announced the arrival of new 8 and 12 core processors, and both the pricing and the performance gains are good-- very good.

&quot;<span>In releasing the products, AMD is touting  performance increases up to two times the level of its previous  generation six-core processors, including an 88% rise in integer  performance and a 119% increase in floating point performance. In  addition, the chips' four channels of DDR3 memory offer up to a 2.5x  improvement in overall memory bandwidth, according to AMD.&quot;</span>

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