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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which originally was scheduled to launch its dual-core Opteron processor in the third quarter of this year, may advance the launch to the middle of the second quarter, according to sources at Taiwan server makers. In the second quarter, the sources believe that AMD will launch its dual-core Opteron 200 and 800 series processors, with the respective codenames Italy and Egypt, for servers that incorporate two or more processors.
News source: DigiTimes
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Anyways, I'm interested in seeing the price table between Single Core & Dual Core (to see if it's worth it at this time).
IBM's been selling dual core CPUs for over a year.
I assume that you mean desktop processors? If so, Intel is going to be the first one to sell them, they're gonna be called Pentium D.
P.S.
SVT - I couldn't care less about IBM, as you quoted from my post, I was referring to AMD & Intel only.
Official: D = 'Different'
What I think should be: D = 'Desktop'
Why? you ask?
Pentium D/Celeron D
pentium M/Celeron M
Pentium D = Pentium Desktop Replacement then
I guess AMD feels that servers need dual core more then home users and they may be right but how long will the wait be til dual core Athlon 64's show up?
To bad AMD wasn't a bigger company and could get both out together.
AMD are the only one of the two whose new processors are really Dual Core.
AMD are the only one of the two whose new processors are really Dual Core.
True, but technicially, wouldn't the performance for intel's 2 CPUs on a die that's connected together perform better?
no shared....L2 cache
no shared....I/O controller/bus
all dual cores will act like that, the app needs to be writen multi threaded to take advantage of it.
How does the price and performance compare to just having dual processors?
apparently the single socket, less Mobo circuitry is required for dual core
lower cost.
Two cores on one CPU package = only one Heatsink required,
One package (pin array and ceramic )
Theoretically after consumers pay the research and development costs on the Dual Core CPU's . 1 Dual core CPU will be cheaper to produce than 2 single core cpu's
Sun is coming up with 8-core, 32-thread chips for servers.
Pentium D really means D for desktops.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19423
Sun has always been an inovative company.
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