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AMD K10 is AMD's tenth-generation microarchitecture. It is the successor of AMD K8. AMD K10 includes Athlon X2, Athlon II, Phenom, Phenom II, and Opteron microprocessors. It is AMD's second 64 bit microarchitecture. The Phenom and Athlon processors compete with Intel Core 2 and Intel Core i7/5/3. The Opteron processors compete with Intel Xeon. AMD K10 processors have been produced for sockets AM2+, AM3, and F.
Background
In 2003, AMD outlined the features for upcoming generations of microprocessors after K8 family of processors in various events and analyst meetings, including the Microprocessor Forum 2003 [1]. The first K10 based processor launched was the Barcelona Opterons on September 10, 2007. The first consumer K10 microprocessor was the Phenom, launched on November 19, 2007.
Features
AMD introduced the microprocessors manufactured at 65 nm feature width using Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, since the release of K10 coincides with the volume ramp of this manufacturing process [2]. The servers were produced for Socket F(1207) or later 1207-pin socket infrastructure, the only server socket on AMD's near-term roadmap; the desktop parts first came on Socket AM2+ and were backwards compatible to AM2. Later, after shifting to 45 nm consumer CPU's were released on Socket AM3 with backward compatibility to AM2+ and AM2.
The first K10 based processors used DDR2 memory. DDR3 support was added in socket AM3 chips.
Processor Cores
Opteron
Opterons are targeted at servers. Opteron cores based on K10 include Barcelona, Shanghai, and Istanbul.
