Dailytech reports that AMD's newest roadmap has some interesting tidbits:

• Socekt G34 - over 1900 pins
• "San Paulo" - 8 core (dual 4 core in one package) processor
• "Magny-Cours" - 12 core processor

First, the new socket will accomodate DDR3  for future AMD processors. The new socket will apparently allow for four Hypertransport 3 interconnects, and quad DDR3 channels.

Taking a leaf from Intel's playbook, with San Paulo AMD will apparently introduce an 8 core processor which is made by placing two native quad core dies into the same package; and the processor will apparently have 12MB of L3 cache and 512KB of L2 cache per core.

Later, Magny-Cours will apparently take us to a processor with twelve cores - it is not yet known if it will be a native 12 core part, or two 6 core devices in one package.

It will be interesting to benchmark these new parts :-)