Q1 2006, start droolingCharlie Demerjian of The Inquirer is on-location in Taipei, attending Computex. Being the slithery kind of journalist that we all love, he has managed to extract some information from an AMD rep.
This time was the whopper that I have been chasing for a while, the four-core Opteron.
Well, it is real, there is a 4-core beastie coming with the F-Step CPUs in Q1. Yes, I said Q1.
Nothing more needs to be said. Imagine a quad-socket board with one of these babies in each socket, and 4 GB of RAM per socket. Sixteen cores, sixteen GB ... Mmmmm. I can see DB admins already working up proposals for their bosses.
Article Link: AMD quad core plans revealed
