Here recently, all the buzz surrounding AMD has involved its Dragon platform or newly spun The Foundry Company. Needless to say, it’s about time we got back to the basics. Advanced Micro Devices has today announced that it recently completed live public demonstrations of its upcoming six-core 45nm AMD Opteron processor, which is currently carrying the codename “Istanbul.” Said chip is scheduled to launch in the second half of 2009, and while we’re left to assume that “launch” translates to “ships” (right, AMD?),