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AMD Says Power Efficiency Still Key

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the teaser-trailers dept.

Larsonist writes to tell us that even though AMD's new architecture wont be released until mid-2007 they are still letting people in on what some of the new features will be. From the article: "While clock speeds have not been revealed, each of the four cores will integrate 64 KB L1 Cache and 512 KB L2 cache. The native quad-core architecture will also include a 2 MB shared L3 cache, which may increase in capacity over time. The processor will have a total of four Hypertransport links - up from three today - that provide a total bandwidth to outside devices of 5.2 GB/s. AMD is also thinking about integrating support for FB-DIMMs 'when appropriate.'"

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  1. Re:Almost obligatory statement... by Virtex · · Score: 2, Funny
    But will it run Vista?
    Sadly, no. By the time Vista comes out, AMD and the rest of the world will have long since moved beyond quad-core processors.
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  2. Amazing by Urtica+dioica · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...they are still letting people in on what some of the new features will be.

    A company announcing upcoming features in order to create hype for their product? Who'd have thought of that.

  3. Efficiency, yes by grammar+fascist · · Score: 4, Funny

    AMD Says Power Efficiency Still Key

    I'll be happy with these new processors as long as I can still efficiently heat my apartment with them.

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    1. Re:Efficiency, yes by Sabre0591 · · Score: 2, Funny

      You've got that right. I heat my spare room with a pair of 64bit AMDs running in two desktop units. Now if I can just figure out where to put the other four maybe I can shut down the furnace this winter.

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  4. Re:Almost obligatory statement... by Nutria · · Score: 2, Funny
    we have more boxes running MS Server 2003 than all others combined.

    Is that because you need more Server 2k3 boxes to get the job done?

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