Digitlife have an interesting article on their site regarding the forthcoming AMD Opteron and Athlon 64, and its certainly worth a read.
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As you know, AMD keeps on promising to release new-generation processors based on the Hammer core - Athlon 64 and Opteron. The first is meant for the desktop market, while the other for the server sector. Now we will look into and analyze information we have about these processors.
As you remember, the new AMD's processor have several key elements:
*x86-64 architecture
*processor core
*integrated memory controller
*Hyper Transport based input/output bus
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Check out the full
article at digit-life entitled "Facts & Assumptions about the Architecture of AMD Opteron and Athlon 64"
Dec 30, 2002, 08:19 PM
