AMD 4x4 Quad Father, Quad Core CPU Details Emerge

JiminyDigits writes "AMD recently revealed a few more details of their upcoming quad-core platform architecture called 4X4. With CPU bundles affectionately dubbed 'Quad Father,' AMD is taking advantage of the inherent benefits of their HyperTransport interconnect technology to directly connect a pair of dual Athlon 64 desktop chips together with system memory. Details here show a dual socket motherboard that support a whopping 12 SATA connections, four X16 PCI Express slots (x16,x8,x16,x8 configuration) and few other bells and whistles. Supposedly Quad Father kits will come with matched CPUs from 2.6GHz up to 3GHz."

Comments

Fuck it, we're going to five cores.

[WilliamSChips]

Hey, it had to be said.

Re:Fuck it, we're going to five cores.

[lordofthechia]

Ahh all the ludicrous amounts of cores, when will it end?

"Sir it's AMD.... they've gone plaid"

Re:Fuck it, we're going to five cores.

[buswolley]

My Quatro shaves just fine thank you anyway.

Vista

[DaMouse404]

And this just about meets the minimum specs for Vista..
-DaMouse

Re:Vista

[Jinky Williams]

"build a uClibc based gentoo system in a chroot."

When I read this, I snickered uncontrollably.

That is all.

Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

my text editor will just fly. I can't wait to spend shitloads of cash on this.

These cores go up to eleven..

[Channard]

At AMD HQ

AMD PR Rep: The chips have four cores. Look, right across the board, four, four, four and...
Tech Columnist: Oh, I see. And most chips go up to two?
AMD PR Rep:: Exactly.
Tech Columnist: Does that mean it's more powerful? Is it more powerful?
AMD PR Rep:: Well, it's two more powerful , isn't it? It's not two. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing games with two. You're on two here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on two on your PC. Where can you go from there? Where?
Tech Columnist: I don't know.
AMD PR Rep:: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Tech Columnist: Put it up to four.
AMD PR Rep:: Eleven. Exactly. Two better.
Tech Columnist: Why don't you just have two and make them a little more powerful?
AMD PR Rep:: [pause] These have four cores.

Re:These cores go up to eleven..

[Anonymous Coward]

And spinal tap is rolling around in their fictious grave ATM.

But, while the AVG joe schmo won't use 4 cores, I do. I would use 444.

Renderfarms suck up CPUs like a fat woman sucking down sugar in a doughnut shop.

Just like the SX/DX line

[HiggsBison]

I fully expect Intel to make a 2-1/2 core CPU called the Dual-Core-3 and a 3 core called the Dual-Core-4.

Responding to my post with a serious one suggests:

[WilliamSChips]

  _|= <---Joke

   o
  -|- <---You
  / \

(the joke looks like a chair because it was originally a Steve Ballmer joke)

Re:Quad Father

[SigILL]

Was somebody at AMD a babylon 5 fan?

Nah, it's a father to stick in your mother board.

Forced Overkill is Right!

[Memnos]

I'm just glad that my Dad wasn't a 4x4 Quad Father, or my Mom would have died during conception.

Re:So there's...

[Anonymous Coward]

As I was running SPECint
I met a man with 4 computers
Each computer had 4 CPUs
Each CPU had 4 cores
Each core had 4 pipelines
Pipelines, cores, CPUs, computers
How many were running SPECint?

(Answer: one, me. This guy was trying to boot Vista.)

Re:4x4 eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

They trying to say that all 4 cores get traction or something?

Absolutely. AMD full-time all-core processing provides outstanding traction with almost any air- or water cooled system. It constantly monitors processing conditions, sensing any loss of traction and automatically transfers processes from the cores that slip to the cores that grip. And cores that grip are especially nice if you're into Doom3 or any other game that demands a lot from a processor. Like grid computing, where AMD is a consistent champion, proving itself year after year on some of the world's most challenging algorithms.

I'm finally cashing in!

[qodfathr]

As I've been the real 'quad father' since 1991 (that's the prefered pronounciation of 'qodfathr'), I'm expecting a big payday for such blatant copyright infringment!

Re:AMD 4x4 - The off roading CPU

[Awedaura]

It is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.

from "Memory Space"

[Anonymous Coward]

Come on, where's dual-core gzip?

Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had two cores?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two gzips at the same time, man.
Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had two cores, you'd do two gzips at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had two cores I could hook that up, too; 'cause processes dig CPUs with cores.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all processes.
Lawrence: Well, the type of processes that'd double up on a PC like this do.
Peter Gibbons: Good point.
Lawrence: Well, what about you now? what would you do?
Peter Gibbons: Besides two gzips at the same time?
Lawrence: Well, yeah.
Peter Gibbons: Nothing.
Lawrence: Nothing, huh?
Peter Gibbons: I would idle... I would sit on my ass all day... I would do nothing.
Lawrence: Well, you don't need two cores to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin: he's got a 386, don't do shit.

the obvious reaction

[illegalcortex]

*drool*

*pant*pant*pant*

*gasp*

*faint*

It won't.

[Millenniumman]

Eventually, we're going to move to processors that dynamically create MicroCores (TM), as they function. MicroCores will exist in another dimension such that they can endlessly multiply without taking up any space.

These systems will allow Windows Panorama (codename: Holstein) to run, although not with the new SuperTransparentyandFlashyandGooeyWoohoo interface, of course.