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Intel Opens Its Front-Side Bus

Posted by kdawson on from the engineers-rampant-on-a-field-azure dept.

vivin writes "The Inquirer is reporting that Intel has opened up its FSB. Intel did this during IDF 07. What this means is that you can plug non-Intel things into the Intel CPU socket. The article says 'This shows that Intel is willing to take AMD seriously as a competitive threat, and is prepared to act upon it. In addition to this breaking one of the most sacred taboos at Intel, it also hints that engineering now has the upper hand over bureaucracy.'"

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  1. Not the first time by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This isn't the first time socket sharing has occured

    The old Socket 7 used to fit Intel and AMD and Cyrix.
    Hell, it can even house socket 5 cpus!

    Back then it wasn't a big deal to upgrade a CPU.

    All the companies started changing sockets at a frantic pace and made a simple CPU update essentially mean a whole machine.

    A new motherboard for the new socket but it also has new memory footprint as well so that gets replaced, and the PCIx slot won't fit my agp card.

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    liqbase :: faster than paper