AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core Chips Released

HaloPhreak writes "InformationWeek reports today that AMD has released the Athlon 64 X2 for the high end desktop. Intel and AMD have been competing to get these out as soon as possible, but I think it will be interesting to see what AMD will do with the mobile version of this processor, due out in 2006." From the article: "Both companies have been in a tight race to deliver the processors since engineers realized that simply ratcheting up the clock speed of single-core chips was creating too much heat and not producing the same improvements seen in previous models."

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Re:DRM

[Luscious868]

Does this have built-in trusted computing/DRM technology like the newest Intel chips?

No .... However early adopters are required to turn over their first born sun or daughter to the RIAA / MPAA to be brainwashed and trained as an intellectual property lawyer.

One major drawback!

[TheCreeep]

But the technology does have drawbacks. For one, it only benefits users who run several programs at once or have software specially designed to take advantage of the two engines.

Wow, that's one serious drawback... I wonder who on earth runs several things, like xorg, fluxbox, firefox, xmms, gdesklets & compiling the kernel in the background,... al at once!!
Oh well.. I'm sure they'll build multy-core processor support into the kernel.