Actually I heard from Tom's Hardware that "Sledgehammer" (K8) will START with two full cpu's per die - effectively SMP on a chip.
From there I think it likely that AMD will produce 4, 8, 16, etc chips-per-die instead of plugging them into a motherboard. Although I guess it depends when they run into the bandwidth bottleneck.
Suppose that's when they'll start pumping that EV6 DDR bus up to 400mhz, etc.
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From there I think it likely that AMD will produce 4, 8, 16, etc chips-per-die instead of plugging them into a motherboard. Although I guess it depends when they run into the bandwidth bottleneck.
Suppose that's when they'll start pumping that EV6 DDR bus up to 400mhz, etc.
Drooling profusely here.
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You'd be tempted to think that multiprocessing versions of the chip will come out which are a single die with 4, 8, 16 etc cpu's on it.
Quake seven here we come.