Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the coming-to-a-pc-near-you dept.
Scrooge919 writes "An article on ZDNet discusses AMD's plan for the successor to Opteron -- the K9. The biggest feature will be that it contains multiple cores. The K9 is currently slated for the second half of 2005, which would be less than 3 years after the Opteron shipped."
Multiple cores?
by
adaknight
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So, now we'll have multiple processing units and pipelines in each core, and multiple cores. The biggest question in my head is how much limitation there will be from memory bandwidth limitations. I just don't see how you can supply data and instructions fast enough to, say, three 3 GHz cores running on the same chip unless you have close to a thousand pins on the chip. The other question would be about cooling.:)
-- hrm. then again. maybe not.
AMD TimeLine to Reality Generator?
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supremebob
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Let's see... AMD missed the original launch date of their Barton core CPU's by at least 3 months, missed the launch date of the Opteron by over 6 months, and the original launch date of the Athlon 64 by almost a year.
If they're saying now that the chip will be 4Q 2005, when should we REALLY be expecting it to show up on store shelves? 3Q 2006? 1Q 2007, maybe?:)
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So, now we'll have multiple processing units and pipelines in each core, and multiple cores. The biggest question in my head is how much limitation there will be from memory bandwidth limitations. I just don't see how you can supply data and instructions fast enough to, say, three 3 GHz cores running on the same chip unless you have close to a thousand pins on the chip. The other question would be about cooling. :)
hrm. then again. maybe not.
Let's see... AMD missed the original launch date of their Barton core CPU's by at least 3 months, missed the launch date of the Opteron by over 6 months, and the original launch date of the Athlon 64 by almost a year.
:)
If they're saying now that the chip will be 4Q 2005, when should we REALLY be expecting it to show up on store shelves? 3Q 2006? 1Q 2007, maybe?