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Socket G34

Socket G34

Overview
The Socket G34 is a CPU socket
CPU socket
A CPU socket or CPU slot is an electrical component that attaches to a printed circuit board and is designed to house a CPU . It is a special type of integrated circuit socket designed for very high pin counts...

 designed by AMD to support the upcoming six-core and twelve-core processor lines codenamed Sao Paolo and Magny-Cours, while the CPU cores are still based on the K10
AMD K10
The AMD K10 is AMD's latest microprocessor microarchitecture. Though there were once reports that the K10 had been canceled , the first third-generation Opteron products for servers were launched on September 10, 2007, with the Phenom processors for desktops following and launching on November 11,...

 microarchitecture, current information suggests that the processors will support HyperTransport 3.0 and four-channel DDR3
DDR3 SDRAM
In electronic engineering, DDR3 SDRAM or double-data-rate three synchronous dynamic random access memory is a random access memory interface technology used for high bandwidth storage of the working data of a computer or other digital electronic devices...

 memory modules. The original Socket G3
Socket G3
The Socket G3, originally as part of the codenamed Piranha server platform, was supposed to be the intermediate successor to Socket F and Socket F+ to be used in AMD Opteron processor for dual-processor and above server platforms scheduled to be launched 2009...

 and G3MX
Socket G3 Memory Extender
The Socket G3 Memory Extender or in short G3MX is Advanced Micro Devices' solution to the problem of connecting large amounts of memory to a single microprocessor. The G3MX was expected to be available on future AMD 800S series chipset for server market starting from 2009, but was officially...

 were cancelled altogether.
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The Socket G34 is a CPU socket
CPU socket
A CPU socket or CPU slot is an electrical component that attaches to a printed circuit board and is designed to house a CPU . It is a special type of integrated circuit socket designed for very high pin counts...

 designed by AMD to support the upcoming six-core and twelve-core processor lines codenamed Sao Paolo and Magny-Cours, while the CPU cores are still based on the K10
AMD K10
The AMD K10 is AMD's latest microprocessor microarchitecture. Though there were once reports that the K10 had been canceled , the first third-generation Opteron products for servers were launched on September 10, 2007, with the Phenom processors for desktops following and launching on November 11,...

 microarchitecture, current information suggests that the processors will support HyperTransport 3.0 and four-channel DDR3
DDR3 SDRAM
In electronic engineering, DDR3 SDRAM or double-data-rate three synchronous dynamic random access memory is a random access memory interface technology used for high bandwidth storage of the working data of a computer or other digital electronic devices...

 memory modules. The original Socket G3
Socket G3
The Socket G3, originally as part of the codenamed Piranha server platform, was supposed to be the intermediate successor to Socket F and Socket F+ to be used in AMD Opteron processor for dual-processor and above server platforms scheduled to be launched 2009...

 and G3MX
Socket G3 Memory Extender
The Socket G3 Memory Extender or in short G3MX is Advanced Micro Devices' solution to the problem of connecting large amounts of memory to a single microprocessor. The G3MX was expected to be available on future AMD 800S series chipset for server market starting from 2009, but was officially...

 were cancelled altogether.

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