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."

Comments

DRM

[poopdeville]

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

All around better

[cybersaga]

With it's lower power consuption than the Intel chips, and lower heat than expected from an AMD chip of this sort, it's definitely a reason to save up.

Re:What will be the impact on Desktop Linux?

[Lisandro]

Drop KDE/GNOME. They have both become too bloated for everyday use. There's a lot of excellent "lightweight" desktop enviroments and window managers: i reccomend XFCE (4.2.2). It's like Gnome after 6 months of workout and strict diet.