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.