AMD to launch Socket F/AM2 Opterons

Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
edited August 2006 in Science & Tech
Our friends over at AMD have announced that the next generation Opteron Processors will be hitting the market this coming Tuesday. The new processor will use the new Socket F as well as the Socket AM2 previously introduced for the desktop processors Sempron, Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2 and FX.
While it is expected that the new processors will offer a slight increase in performance and decrease in power consumption, a key feature of the new CPUs will be support for virtualization, which is formally introduced with the launch of the Socket F and AM2 Opterons. AMD also said that it will stay on its path to enable simple drop-in upgrades: The upcoming quad-core CPU generation, scheduled to launch in mid-2007, will continue to use F and AM2 sockets.
Source: TG Daily

Comments

  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    Does this mean that we may see dual socket AM2 mobos?
    Or might they keep features like that for "F".
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