Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Jul 2006 21:01 UTC, submitted by DigitalDame
AMD executives said this week that they will promote its '4x4' enthusiast platform to counter the Core 2 Duo. AMD also plans to push a sort of 'performance number' into the market to redefine how consumers should think about power. The 4x4 platform will place two physical sockets on a motherboard, connected by AMD's Direct Connect architecture. Mounted on each socket will be an AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor, for a total of 4 cores. An eight-core '8X8' program will roll out in 2007.
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2005-07-09
The way I see it is like this. Intel introduced the ace up their sleeve. AMD is going to do the same. But not this time but next year. It is just a smart move on Intel's part that they chose a quite time to release CPUs. But I am not going to underestimate AMD. There could be a chance that in the next few months, AMD will have a surprse announcement that the K8L is ready to go...in 90 nm!!! For those who choose to wait can wait for the 65 nm counterparts coming out next year. The reason why I think this could be quite plausible is because I have been hearing and reading over the Net for a long time that AMD has been working on a brand new architecture supposed to be released around 2008 since the first time I saw Athlon 64 bit processors based on the K8 get released. That was to be the K10 or something. But K8L seems to be like a stepping stone to K10. I am quite convinced that in all this time, AMD probably has finalized the design for K8L by now and probably even decided to toss in a few nifty features. I predict an earlier than expected K8L release to keep down the mighty Conroe.
This sort of competition is great as long as nobody ends up killing each other! ;P