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AMD Opteron Due In April

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the grain-of-salt-please dept.

updog writes "Here's an article from Infoworld claiming that the new 64-bit AMD Opteron is ready to launch on April 22. Some of the notable features of the new chip are an address space capable of addressing up to 1 Terabyte of memory, the ability to link up to 8 processors without any external chips, and backwards compatibility with existing 32-bit applications ..." PapaFSmurf, meanwhile, links to a disclaimer-heavy article posted at amdboard.com which says that 64-bit Athlons may arrive in June rather than September as previously expected.

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  1. 1 TB of RAM?? by Alpha_Nerd · · Score: 0, Troll

    Looks like a nice way to prevent sites from being /.ed

  2. They built it, now who will come? by glrotate · · Score: 1, Troll

    Vendorwise I mean. Dell won't touch AMD flakiness with a 10 foot pole, I don't recall seeing many IBM AMD servers, and HP has too much tied up in IA64. So you're going to build your datacenter around Gateway? MOO.

  3. 1TB by vandel405 · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is not a troll, but don't any of you find the 1TB memory ceiling stupid? I mean, doesn't this remind you of 640kb limit? Why only a 40bit address space? Why not 64bit? I mean if you're gonna go 64bit, go 64bit! this isn't even half assed it 3/8's assed.