AMD Heading Towards Land-Grid Array Sockets
Aside from AMD’s socket M2, which is coming out in the first quarter of ’06, it looks like the next line of processors after the M2 will be using a package that Intel has made popular with their newer Pentium 4’s: Land Grid Array (LGA). Dubbed socket F, which will be used on the server platform, this will be either a 1206 or 1207-pin package.
Advanced Micro Devices? next-generation server AMD Opteron processors with enhanced set of features may use land-grid array (LGA) packaging and sockets, according to pictures published by a web-site. While the LGA packaging provides numerous benefits to AMD, mainboards with such a socket will cost more to be made. A forum member of Tweakers.net web-site has posted several pictures of what is claimed to be Socket 1207, also known as Socket F, which is expected to be used for next-generation AMD Opteron processors for servers and workstations that support registered DDR2 SDRAM, virtualization technology Pacifica, advanced security feature Presidio as well as some other enhancements. The chips are projected to emerge in 2006.
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