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AMD Demos Dual-Core Athlon 64

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the with-two-types-of-salsa dept.

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)."

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  1. Re:Oracle and Dual Core CPUs... by Shalda · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  2. Re:Check your licensing agreements first by ThaReetLad · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  3. Re:Am I Missing Something? by sgant · · Score: 5, Funny

    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)

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