The Socket G3, originally as part of the codenamed Piranha server platform,[2] was supposed to be the intermediate successor to Socket F and Socket F+ to be used in AMD Opteron processor for dual-processor (2P) and above server platforms scheduled to be launched 2009.
AMD had planned socket G3 to arrive with the advent of the previously planned 8-core MCM chip code named Montreal.
Since Q1 2008, the plan for and 8-core MCM server chip based on 45 nm K10.5 design has been scrapped in favor of a 6-core fully integrated MPU design code named Istanbul, which would use the existing socket F/F+ platform, produced by Nvidia, Broadcom, as well as Fiorano to be introduced by AMD in 2009.
However, socket G3 was officially discontinued as of March 2008.
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