AMD to demonstrate dual-core chips

Tony Hill wrote:
That's the beauty of AMD's dual-core Opterons, they are fully
compatible with any Socket 940 motherboard as long as it can manage
the regular (single-core) 90nm Opterons. Given that most (all?)
Opteron boards being built today are capable of handling these 90nm
Opterons, finding a compatible board should be very easy.

If you read about the demo you'll notice that they were able to drop 4
dual-core Opterons into a plain old HP DL585 server with only a BIOS
update. No special hardware required at all!

Now the speculation begins about what Intel is going to counter that with at
its IDF:

http://news.com.com/Dual+cores+to+le...tag=html.alert

People are now openly saying that if Intel demos a dual-core Itanium instead
of a Pentium/Xeon, then chances are likely that there will be
disappointment. The Itanium dual-core has been in development a lot longer
than any dual-core x86. I fully expect a dual-core Itanium, but I'll be
shocked as hell if they have a dual-core x86 there too.

Yousuf Khan

Yup, me too :¬)

This list gets longer and longer... hurry up AMD!! (Pretty please?)

John