AMD Demos Dual-Core Athlon 64

DigitumDei writes "Dual core chips came closer to reality as AMD demonstrated their Athlon64 dual-core offering. The 90nm technology chip will use the same 939-pin infrastructure and cooling solutions as the current Athlon 64 chips, meaning that upgrading to a dual-core chip from your current AMD64 will require little more than a BIOS update. Available in the second half of this year, the chip will be added to AMD's current line (Athlon64, Athlon FX, Sempron)."

Comments

Re:Xmas list material

[Anonymous Coward]

MORE POWER ARH ARH ARH!

Poor Tim Taylor... His claim to fame was nothing more than a strange barking while being laughed at by a fat man in a flannel.

If only he realized how hot his wife was. I'd never be in my god damn garage with her running around!

Similarly, no one should be putzing around with more power in their dual-cores when there are women to be had!

Oh wait, sorry, I forgot this is Slashdot (the REAL "tool time") ;)

This will be great..

[ein2many]

with that new 512 Meg ATI video card, we will get nothing for more.

Re:Oracle and Dual Core CPUs...

[Shalda]

The answer of course, is don't use Oracle if you can help it. :) They're just as evil as Microsoft, but they don't give away nearly as many free T-Shirts.

Re:Check your licensing agreements first

[ThaReetLad]

Buying Oracle is like buying a Ferrari. If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

Re:Am I Missing Something?

[sgant]

Waiting for someone to come along now and quote some article about how RAM doesn't noticeably speed things up in a desktop environment.

Pretty soon we'll talk ourselves into a corner where nothing speeds anything up and we were better off with a C-64.

(btw, I'm joking)