Just like we predicted a fair while back back, AMD's venerable but feisty CEO Jerry Sanders !!!+ [Includes PR rating, Ed] will today announce more multiprocessing versions of its AMD processors today and will use its controversial "PR" rating to sell them.
But the difference between these and the processors launched in Milano and the US last week is "not very much", according to a source close to AMD's plans.Indeed, the only difference right now may be the letters "MP" are used rather than "XP", because the same source tells us that while in the future AMD will make sure the XP chips won't officially work in MP boards, right now they do. The letters MP currently costs an additional $50 wholesale, the source claimed, with the "M" costing more than the "P".*
AMD says officially that the "XP" chips have not been through the elaborate multicircuit tests that the "MP" ones undergo, and that while they may well work in the majority of cases, the server market requires a higher degree of reliability. What that essentially means is that if they're used as MP chips, they're not covered by the usual warranty.
News source: The Inquirer
