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4 Cores In 2007 We'll Go

In an obvious response to Intel's future ambitions to get a quad-core processor solution out on the market by 2007, AMD is planning much the same with their Opteron line of processors. With plans to support DDR3, it will definitely be a good match for servers and high-end enthusiast solutions alike.

The new processor will incorporate four cores connected together by a new version of the Hypertransport interconnect technology, and will support DDR3 (double data rate 3) memory, he said at the event, which provides financial analysts and media with a "State of AMD" address that covers the company's technology, customers, and financial health. The server version of this chip will add a third level of cache memory to AMD's processors, allowing server designers to build systems with 16 and 32 processors, Hester said. Previously AMD's customers had been limited to building eight-processor Opteron servers because of the difficulty inherent in coordinating cache memory requests within multiprocessor servers. Cache memory stores frequently used data on the chip close to the CPU, where it can be accessed much more quickly than data stored in memory.

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Posted by | Wed, Nov 16, 2005 - 10:13 AM