Advanced Micro Devices is going to fire back at Intel today in the enthusiast PC market. The Sunnyvale company will unveil a new socket for high-end computers today that will allow it to put two dual-core microprocessors side by side in a PC. The new 4x4 socket will help it compete for the speed crown with Intel, which is poised to launch its new Conroe desktop microprocessors in July.
"This is something we have worked on for a while based on customer feedback," said Brent Barry, director of brand marketing for AMD's FX series of gamer chips.
It's like Gillette adding four razor blades to its razors now. How many is enough? It could get confusing for gamers. But the techies will sort it out, much the same way they have with the Nvidia SLI and ATI Crossfire dual graphics cards: more is better.
While Intel's Conroe chips will allegedly take the performance crown from AMD's own dual-core FX series of microprocessors, AMD can claim leadership in terms of putting four cores into a single PC, allowing for more tasks to be done in parallel. Patrick Moorhead, vice president of global channel marketing, said the new socket would ship in the second half of 2006 and target the high-end gamer segment, which usually means high-priced.
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"This is something we have worked on for a while based on customer feedback," said Brent Barry, director of brand marketing for AMD's FX series of gamer chips.
It's like Gillette adding four razor blades to its razors now. How many is enough? It could get confusing for gamers. But the techies will sort it out, much the same way they have with the Nvidia SLI and ATI Crossfire dual graphics cards: more is better.
While Intel's Conroe chips will allegedly take the performance crown from AMD's own dual-core FX series of microprocessors, AMD can claim leadership in terms of putting four cores into a single PC, allowing for more tasks to be done in parallel. Patrick Moorhead, vice president of global channel marketing, said the new socket would ship in the second half of 2006 and target the high-end gamer segment, which usually means high-priced.
View: Full Article @ A + E Interactive News source: Back Page News Discussion Thread, Thanks Sam
There is also the Intel's Xeon wich is x86 and already does it, it is already possible to use 2 dual-core-hyperthreaded Xeons on the same motherboard, wich gives you the total of 4 physical cores and more 4 virtual (due to intel's HT), the total of 8 simultaneous processes (!!!
But, even more exclamations will come if you ask the price of this kidding - it is not intended to we, normal-not-multimillionaire-living-human-beings.
Something funny though.. dual dual cores.. soon we all will have to run Win2k3 server to be able to use the hardware
Not something that Intel or anyone else can't do.
"This is something we have worked on for a while based on customer feedback," said Brent Barry, director of brand marketing for AMD's FX series of gamer chips.
^ uh... does he know they been making dual chips since ever?
you don't know what you're talking about. All chips have elements of RISC and CISC these days.
im not so sure about xp limited to 2 cpus claim, but if an OS doesnt support it, then no the computer wont be utilizing it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of AMD, however my next system which I'll be building is going to have a conroe in it unless AMD can show me something that is on the performance level of Conroe.
It's tough to say.
Chew
Nice one hot shot, before you talk out of your a$$ please do a little research. Vista will only support 2 CPUs.
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Now if anyone can provide a link from a microsoft domain that would be great, I couldn't find a direct microsoft description of maximum cpu support for Vista.
"There's been some confusion about the difference between multiple processors and multiple processor cores (for example, both Intel and AMD are currently selling dual-core CPUs, and quad-core chips are on the way). While all of the Vista product editions support only one or two physical processors, none are limited to the number of processor cores they will support."
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvi...tions_final.asp
so while this still enforces that only two physical procs can be used, it doesnt limit having multiple core procs.
A logical processing unit is an OS term that references how many process threads the OS has available to it. A single Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading will show up as two logical processing units in XP even though it's really just one core on one CPUs. A dual-core CPU will also be seen as two logical processing units. Yes, you'll get better multitasking performance with a dual-core that with a hyperthreaded core, but Windows doesn't see the difference. Either way you go it's just two logical processing cores as far as XP can see.
XP Pro supports two CPUs... no matter how many cores each CPU has. Of course, nobody's tested a quad-core CPU in the wild, so we don't really know what happens when you run two of those under XP Pro. However, dual-core Xeons have been around for a while now and if you run two of those in XP Pro, guess what? XP Pro likes it very much, that's what. XP Pro sees a pair of dual-core Xeons as four logical processing units on Two CPUs.
More that two CPUs needs XP Pro x64 or Windows 2003 (or Linu
A logical processing unit is an OS term that references how many process threads the OS has available to it. A single Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading will show up as two logical processing units in XP even though it's really just one core on one CPUs. A dual-core CPU will also be seen as two logical processing units. Yes, you'll get better multitasking performance with a dual-core that with a hyperthreaded core, but Windows doesn't see the difference. Either way you go it's just two logical processing cores as far as XP can see.
XP Pro supports two CPUs... no matter how many cores each CPU has. Of course, nobody's tested a quad-core CPU in the wild, so we don't really know what happens when you run two of those under XP Pro. However, dual-core Xeons have been around for a while now and if you run two of those in XP Pro, guess what? XP Pro likes it very much, that's what. XP Pro sees a pair of dual-core Xeons as four logical processing units on Two CPUs.
More that two CPUs needs XP Pro x64 or Windows 2003 (or Linu
Not to discredit your post, but do you have a link that shows this? I've run windows server OSs with 2 dual core Xeons and they do come up as 4 logical processing units aka 4 processing core (Not sure if it's correct to make that analogy). However I have yet to see Win Xp Pro do that, I would think that the normal Multiprocessor ACPI PC / Hal in windows xp would utilize only 2 of the 4 cores. My logic behind this is that Physical processor support is also a description for a physical core, because 1 processor = 1 core = 1 logical processing unit. So that have a Dual Core AMD X2 4800+ is the Same as having Two AMD 4000+'s on a dual socket motherboard. Do you agree or disagree?
I wish we could get some clarification for this. Too bad I don't have a quad setup to test this on ATM.
Another thing I came by was an article about Dell selling Core Duo notebooks, but by default bundling it with Windows XP Home, which supposedly can only utilize or take advantage of one of those cores. I'll see if I can find a link for this.
I really do hope this becomes popular and intel is forced to follow.
Then we can have dual, quad core Kentsfields in a year or so .....
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