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Friday, February 25, 2005

CPU Update: AMD Demos Dual-Core Athlon 64
The dual-core race is heating up thanks to a recent surprise demo from the folks at AMD. According to ARSTechnica, "Toledo is expected to ship sometime during the second half of 2005, and will be a Socket 939 part, meaning it can utilized in current motherboards that support the Athlon 64 with a BIOS update. AMD claims no additional cooling will be necessary for the dual-core parts.

"AMD and Intel are both racing to get their dual-core products out. Intel looks to be first on the desktop, with the dual-core Smithfield (based on the HyperThreading-enabled Pentium 4) slated to ship during the second quarter of this year. When it comes to 64-bit x86 server chips, AMD will have dual-core Opterons out by mid-2005, while dual-core Xeons likely won't see the light of day until 2006. Intel will ship a dual-core Itanium 2 later this year."

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Sounds like another Otellini premature announcement. Nothing shows up on the Intel website, except the press releases, and no one is addressing the heat rumors recently. A new chipset (read motherboard) coupled with a new processor design on such short notice reminds me of the failed Intel offerings of the past. At least we won't have to wait long to find out.

# posted by WRM 7:33 AM

I don't understand why Intel is still wasting its money developing the Itanic. Dual-core should be nice, but I have to wonder how much these chips will cost. Their die size is going to be twice that of single-core chips and with the top-end single-core chips already costing around $800 it will be interesting to see how the price structure changes. I also wonder if they'll be able to release a dual core chip with each core clocked as fast as the fastest single-core chips out. It promises to be interesting at least.

# posted by David 9:50 AM

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