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amd quad core optys mid 2007

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  • 16-08-2006 8:45pm
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    awhir
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    from megagames

    AMD has announced the completion of the design, or tape-out, of its native Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors represent another concrete example of the benefits from AMD’s overarching strategy to introduce new technologies with minimal customer disruption for maximum value. AMD plans to deliver to customers in mid-2007 native Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors that incorporate four processor cores on a single die of silicon.

    AMD has been falling behind arch-rival, Intel in the quad-core race, even though the 4x4 initiative was originally an AMD project. Intel's quad-core offering, based on the popular Core 2 Duo chip, has been brought forward and is now expected to launch in Q4 2006 rather than the initially announced, mid 2007. In order to alleviate the pressure on AMD the company has announced plans to ...demonstrate our next generation microprocessor core in a native quad-core implementation before the end of the year, said Dirk Meyer, AMD’s president and CEO in a conference call.

    AMD also confirmed that its quad-core chip is code-named Deerhound and will be intended for socket F infrastructure and will have shared level-two cache along with a dual-channel registered DDR2 memory controller. The new chip will utilize the new K8L design, which will introduce several improvements.


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    WizZard
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    Not unless you are running a server board. The key point here is that it is Socket F and not AM2, and I don't know of any server boards that carry enthusiast chipsets :D

    However I am looking forward to this for big, mean database servers :p


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    Anti
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    Hmm interesting. Amd plan a demo by the end of they year. But intel will already be shipping by then. Its horrible to say as i have been with amd for years and years now, and just recentely built my first intel rig since a pentium 166. But i think its game set and match for intel :(


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    po0k
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    I wouldn't discount Intel quickly. They've been around a hell of a long time and are widely diverse. They are a bit of a behemoth, but once they decide on a path, they'll charge down it much like a tank through a bog.

    "Quad" core isn't news. nether will 8-core. Horizontal scaling has been guaranteed since NetBurst and especially after Prescott.

    High-end gear is developed for Enterprise markets. It filters down to consumer market a few cycles later. This is the way of things.

    Read up on FB-DIMMs and realise why they're going to flip overclocking on it's head more than HTT did with A64 - should they ever make it to consumer-level, ignoring the ECC stuff. Your banks won't be in synch anymore, but will act more like a ring bus.

    XDR and DDR3 are on the horizon as memory paths become serialised. RAMBus was an early attempt at this. It'll return.

    If you want to look into the future, look at what goes into today's big iron.


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