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A First Look at AMD's M2 Platform

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-gonna-be-a-photo-finish dept.

Knight Thrasher writes to tell us that Tom's Hardware has an interesting first look at AMD's AM2 platform. From the article: "While Intel will be answering later this year with its Merom/Conroe processors, AMD officially says that the introduction of its AM2 platform and DDR2 memory support in the second quarter of this year will be able to maintain its current lead. Unofficially, we know that AMD will launch six dual-core and two single-core AM2 processors on June 6 - later than initially expected but well in time for Intel's Conroe, which will be introduced in September. Tom's Hardware got its hands on a stable engineering sample of an Athlon 64 X2 4800+ for Socket AM2 and will publish benchmark results as first as a first impression of the new Socket and processors tomorrow."

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  1. Does this mean... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...tomorrow's story should be considered a dupe of this one? Or is this a predupe or "pupe."

  2. Can AMD Save Apple? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    IBM has made it clear that when they dumped Apple last year it was for good.

    And AMD lacked the production capacity to guarantee the relatively tiny number of chips Apple needs each year. Hopefully Apple didn't have to sign any long term contracts with Intel due to being forced to scramble for a new chip supplier - although the backup x86 builds certainly helped.

    Intel's PR has reached a fever pitch with promises of future performance which going by their history over the past decade is almost always a sign of how desperate they feel they are.

    Going from Cell -> Viiv has gotta sting up in Cupertino
    Being the only remaining Intel exclusive x86 OEM is most likely fatal

    Can AMD rescue Apple from their current Intel fiasco?

  3. No need to upgrade at least another year... by DimGeo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have a P4 2400 with 512 mb DDR1, and an AGP 4x slot. And I have no need to upgrade, except maybe buy some cheap 1 gb RAM to play with. I mean, what's the point? I will hardly notice any difference. When AMD release some 4x CPUs and their dualcores get cheaper... Or Intel's for that matter... Then, maybe, I will think about upgrading, but right now, its just completely pointless for me. The only thing that's troubling me is that I will have to buy an AGP card (maybe it will be a 6600gt) if I want to play some modern games...