AMD Announces Quad Core Tape-Out

Gr8Apes writes "The DailyTech has a snippet wherein AMD announced that quad core Opterons are taped out and will be socket compatible with the current DDR2 Opterons. In fact, all AM3 chips will be socket compatible with AM2 motherboards. For a little historical perspective, AMD's dual-core Opteron was taped out in June 2004, and then officially introduced in late April, 2005.' AMD also claims that the new quad processors will be demo'd this year. Perhaps Core 2 will have a very short reign at the top?" From the article: "The company's press release claims 'AMD plans to deliver to customers in mid-2007 native Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors that incorporate four processor cores on a single die of silicon.'"

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Re:Four Cores and Seven Years Ago

[thebdj]

Um, no. Because both are forcing more cores into the chips. The comparison you make is actually rather poor, because when Intel did that AMD was not pushing their speed with them. If you bothered to RTFA, or even any article on the subject of multi-core processing, you would know that both companies are working on, and have been working on, quad-core (and I think 8-core) designs.

The AMD grasp to hang on was the 4x4 socket, which is an interesting idea if nothing else. I really think you should read up more on multi-core systems, because your statements are a tad off.

Funny!

[Sebastopol]

AMD is announcing TAPE-OUTS now! How pathetic!

It's at least a year from shipping.