AMD demos dual-core Opterons

Wed Sep 01, 2004 2:59 am

It's official: AMD has honest-to-goodness dual-core processors, and they'll be available sometime in 2005.

theinquirer.net's story
geek.com's story and opinions

More bragging rights for AMD in their ongoing CPU war with Intel.

Discuss?

More links for those more curious:
Tom's Hardware's story
The Register's story

Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:26 pm

Sweet. Not that I'll be able to get my hands on those any time soon.

Although, Intel has some plans of their own:
http://www.cooltechzone.com/index.php?o ... 2&Itemid=0

Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:23 pm

The next CPU I'll be buying will probably be 64-bit, and the closest time that would happen is in 2006. This is mostly because of the Longhorn release -- I think it's worth putting off buying hardware untill it can statisfy system requirements for the next OS, if you already have a decent PC. So, no dual-core AMD in 2005 for me. Mid-2005 sounds a bit far away -- a lot of time for something to change.