Future 2 on a chip CPUs

AMD are hinting that they are going to produce opterons with 2 CPUs on one
chip.

Does anyone know how many pins they are going to have, 940, 939 or 745ish.

The_gnome

the gnome wrote:
AMD are hinting that they are going to produce opterons with 2 CPUs on one
chip.

Does anyone know how many pins they are going to have, 940, 939 or 745ish.


As far as I know the future is like this:

The Opteron (multiprocessor) platform is 940.

The FX platform will be 939.

No technical reason why the dual cores couldn't appear on any socket
configuration, but I would suspect that the Opterons will be first, then
maybe the FX.

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the gnome wrote:
AMD are hinting that they are going to produce opterons with 2 CPUs on
one
chip.

Does anyone know how many pins they are going to have, 940, 939 or
745ish.


As far as I know the future is like this:

The Opteron (multiprocessor) platform is 940.

The FX platform will be 939.

No technical reason why the dual cores couldn't appear on any socket
configuration, but I would suspect that the Opterons will be first, then
maybe the FX.

Ben

I think the roadmaps actually show that
DualCore opt's first, then DualCore FX's .. and that will be all (for now)..
Their Cheaper lines continue with a single core.. The roadmaps have this
info howver, the OP should visit amd's site and catch up there.

rstlne wrote:
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No technical reason why the dual cores couldn't appear on any socket
configuration, but I would suspect that the Opterons will be first, then
maybe the FX.

I think the roadmaps actually show that
DualCore opt's first, then DualCore FX's .. and that will be all (for
now).. Their Cheaper lines continue with a single core.. The roadmaps
have this info howver, the OP should visit amd's site and catch up there.

....so my guess was good.

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AMD are hinting that they are going to produce opterons with 2 CPUs on one
chip.

Does anyone know how many pins they are going to have, 940, 939 or 745ish.

The_gnome

I can't see a dual core being offered in the 700-odd pin config because that
only has a single channel memory controller. The point of dual core is extra
performance (in the througput sense) and a good memory subsystem is required
for that.

Peter

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AMD are hinting that they are going to produce opterons with 2 CPUs on
one
chip.

Does anyone know how many pins they are going to have, 940, 939 or
745ish.

The_gnome

I can't see a dual core being offered in the 700-odd pin config because
that
only has a single channel memory controller. The point of dual core is
extra
performance (in the througput sense) and a good memory subsystem is
required
for that.

Peter



yea..
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont...map_061404.jpg
it's shown coming in for the FX series and all of the server/workstation
chips moving to it..
From that I would guess 940 pin (or other maybee?) for em..
It does sound intersting however, cause there are now the quad opteron
boards being made with some of the high end home users in mind so this kinda
stuff brings a LOT of power into your house for not that much cost (i'll not
be buying one but I think it's a really intersting thing to watch)

rstlne wrote:
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"the gnome" wrote in message
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AMD are hinting that they are going to produce opterons with 2 CPUs
on one chip.

Does anyone know how many pins they are going to have, 940, 939 or
745ish.

The_gnome

I can't see a dual core being offered in the 700-odd pin config
because that only has a single channel memory controller. The point
of dual core is extra performance (in the througput sense) and a
good memory subsystem is required for that.

Peter



yea..
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont...map_061404.jpg
it's shown coming in for the FX series and all of the
server/workstation chips moving to it..
From that I would guess 940 pin (or other maybee?) for em..
It does sound intersting however, cause there are now the quad opteron
boards being made with some of the high end home users in mind so
this kinda stuff brings a LOT of power into your house for not that
much cost (i'll not be buying one but I think it's a really
intersting thing to watch)

Presumably as it's for the FX it will be socket 939.

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Derek

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:37:16 +0100, "rstlne"
wrote:


yea..
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont...map_061404.jpg
it's shown coming in for the FX series and all of the server/workstation
chips moving to it..
From that I would guess 940 pin (or other maybee?) for em..
It does sound intersting however, cause there are now the quad opteron
boards being made with some of the high end home users in mind so this kinda
stuff brings a LOT of power into your house for not that much cost (i'll not
be buying one but I think it's a really intersting thing to watch)


I'll never understand why intel didn't want to sell more dual
processor boards. They must really make a ton of money soaking
business for servers.

As I understand it, the opterons have a killer architecture that makes
interconnecting cores/cpu's very easy and high performance in multi
processor designs.

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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:37:16 +0100, "rstlne"
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yea..
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont...map_061404.jpg
it's shown coming in for the FX series and all of the server/workstation
chips moving to it..
From that I would guess 940 pin (or other maybee?) for em..
It does sound intersting however, cause there are now the quad opteron
boards being made with some of the high end home users in mind so this
kinda
stuff brings a LOT of power into your house for not that much cost (i'll
not
be buying one but I think it's a really intersting thing to watch)


I'll never understand why intel didn't want to sell more dual
processor boards. They must really make a ton of money soaking
business for servers.

As I understand it, the opterons have a killer architecture that makes
interconnecting cores/cpu's very easy and high performance in multi
processor designs.



Chuck, Supermicro and Tyan also make dual Xeon processor boards.