Quad-channel architecture

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Quad-channel computer memory is a memory bus technology used by AMD Socket G34 released in May 2010, with Opteron 6100-series "Magny-Cours" (45 nm){{cite web

| title = AMD Opteron 6000 Series Platform Quick Reference Guide

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| archive-date = 2012-05-12

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}} and later by the Intel X79 chipset released in November 2011, for LGA2011-based Core i7 CPUs utilizing the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture. It is the successor of the triple-channel architecture used by the Intel X58 chipset for LGA1366-based CPUs.