AMD: A New SuperStar Born

World's First Dual Core 64Bit Processor Launched

Published on April 22, 2005 By Black Xero In WinCustomize News

AMD launches Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors for server and workstations and unveils AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core processor for consumers and business users

AMD officially launched its dual-core Opteron processors for high-end servers Thursday at an event in New York City. The company is also preparing a dual-core desktop processor dubbed the AMD Athlon 64 X2, which will launch in June and go head to head with Intel's dual-core Pentium chips.

Dual-core processors are the next evolution of AMD64’s Direct Connect Architecture and were designed from the ground up to directly connect two cores on a single die, along with memory, I/O and dedicated caches, improving overall system performance and efficiency and helping to eliminate the bottlenecks inherent in a front-side-bus architecture.

The 800 Series Opteron is available now and designed for four- to eight-way servers, while the 200 Series processors aimed at two-way servers and workstations will ship late May.

The company says its dual-core chips use the same power and infrastructure as their single-core brethren, meaning a new chipset will not be required - only a BIOS upgrade.

Intel's dual-core chips, on the other hand, will require new motherboards with supporting chipset.

AMD’s key OEM customers, including Sun, HP and IBM, announced their intention to launch ground-breaking, dual-core processor-based platforms based on the non-disruptive AMD64 dual-core technology, the world’s leading x86, 64-bit computing environment. Additional partners also announced dual-core systems.

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Comments (Page 2)

Doomgaze

on Apr 26, 2005

Intel has a better reputation for being more reliable and has (in the past) had higher quality. Cant wait for the intel release, its gonna be fatastic!

As far as price vs performance ratio, Intel has been behind for 5+ years now.
For 90% of the consumer market, there's absolutely no reason to spend the extra money on a P4 over say an AthlonXP.

And Intel has been notorious for chipset drivers that make the Via 4in1's look perfect for quite a few years now.

But then again, my backup bsd box in the basement just died, the cpu fan on the processor hasn't spun in over a month and the chip (celeron 800) finally cooked to death.

Doomgaze

on Apr 26, 2005

Intel has been working on the Dual Core chip for quite some time now, I read about it a couple years ago before I ever heard AMD whisper a word about it..that makes me suspicious all by itself!

Thats called Intel making a marketing push before AMD did and means nothing about what one company or the other is doing.

You've probably heard of "paper launches" ie: Yeah we're gonna release this product... But we haven't made it yet.

Double Zero

on Apr 26, 2005

As far as price vs performance ratio, Intel has been behind for 5+ years now.
For 90% of the consumer market, there's absolutely no reason to spend the extra money on a P4 over say an AthlonXP.

Well I for one can certainly see the logic in buying a chip that I cant use to it's full potential. such as the "64"..What good is that?

Instead a nice P4 with *HT just humms along doing it's work at 100% utilization .."Nice"

Lets not ignore "HT" It really is what AMD Lacks now isnt it?

What are you reffering to I wonder? "As far as price vs performance ratio, Intel has been behind for 5+ years now."

That statement is pure ignorance really..

Ah well,
Have a nice day,
Zero.

kona0197

on Apr 26, 2005

Doomgaze - If your looking for a replacement for your backup box let me know. I think I have a 800 MHz AMD Athlon chip and board around here somewhere.

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