AMD 4x4 Quad Father, Quad Core CPU Details Emerge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday October 21, 2006 @03:39AM from the up-and-coming dept.

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."

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Gillette by just_forget_it · 2006-10-21 04:40 · Score: 0, Redundant

Is it just me, or are processors with cores going to become like gilette razors with razorblades?
Re:Vista by 644bd346996 · 2006-10-22 06:45 · Score: 0, Redundant

Do you even know what uClibc is and why is matters on a computer with 64 megabytes of RAM? I understand that compiler optimizations don't do much for performance, especially on a decent computer. Hence the need for a chroot - the host system is not gentoo. But it should be obvious that a program that fits in RAM will be faster than one that doesn't.