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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.'"
After spending a week of my life trying to work out why Windows Media Encoder 9.0 produced stuttery video on a brand new 4200 x2 based system only to finally pinpoint the ***** processor I have to say Im not impressed with this. No doubt AMD will be showing WMEs huge performance increases with x4 when transcoding but when it doesnt ****** work on broadcasts thats ****** useless.
Unimpressed.