Good article! The best is that it explains things in a way that you don't need to be an engineer or a mathematic professor to understand most of it
I usually understand most of more advanced articles, but why make it more complicated then necesary?

I wouldn't be to suprised if AMD releases dualcore versions of their Opteron 1XX, Opteron 2XX and Opteron 8XX CPU,s in 2005 and not just for the heck of it. A system with 8 dualcore Opteron 8XX CPU's would ofcourse be 16 cores in total.

But I don't think Socket940 will be big in the enthusiast market. Sure some will ofcourse get it, just like there are allready some enthusiasts that have Dual Pentium III/Athlon MP/Xeon/Opteron systems. But I think most enthusiast will get dual core Socket939 Athlons, that probobly will be released in late 2005.
Some may want/need ECC memory and get Socket940 instead or need more then one dualcore processor for the specialized personal use, but I think the Socket939 platform will be more popular.

The one who lives will see.