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AMD's Roadmap revealed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the socket-to-me dept.

NoPants writes "It looks like the aces at Anandtech were able to get their hands on some of AMD's internal roadmaps. Anand has some interesting information including the new upcoming Socket 939 CPU standard as well as AMD's predicted release dates for Athlon 64 4000+ processors. Hopefully this will shed some light on what AMD is trying to do with all the different socket types..."

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  1. Justification for socket change? by -tji · · Score: 0, Redundant


    What the hell was AMD thinking?

    Obviously, the Socket 754 was a mistake... they are dropping it only months after introducing a new processor on it. So, those of us with our shiny new Athlon 64's have very limited upgrade potential. But, I can see the logic in moving to a dual channel memory design (but they should have decided this prior to release, not immediately after).

    But, the Socket 939 / Socket 940 thing is even more baffling.. With the pin count only differing by one, there can't be too much difference between the two sockets. So, why drop the Socket 940?? What was the justification for this move???