AMD Dual-Core Opteron om 10 dage

AMD vil højst sandsynligt introducere deres Dual-Core Opteron processorer, med modelnumrene 865, 870 og 875 den 21. april, dagen hvor Opteron har 2 års jubilæum, og samtidig over 2 måneder før det originalt var planlagt. Og ikke nok med at AMD vil være de første med Dual-Core processorer, de vil også sælge dem til stort set samme pris som eksisterende Single-Core processorer, og dermed lægge yderligere press på Intel, som ikke vil have en Dual-Core processor til server-markedet før 2006. AMDs Athlon 64 vil komme i en Dual-Core version i juni, og denne kan benyttes i eksisterende Socket 939 bundkort.

AMD will announce at an event on April 21 in New York that the first dual-core Opteron processors are available, months ahead of schedule, sources familiar with the situation said. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker also is expected to announce its dual-core chips for personal computers will go on sale in June.

In an attempt to encourage rapid adoption, AMD will sell some of the new chips at the same prices as the corresponding single-core models they'll replace, a source familiar with the products said. The company is expected to first release its high-end and more expensive 800 series Opterons, which are geared for servers with four or eight chips, with lower-end 200 series models coming in May.

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