News on amd quad-core

[keblerelf04]

"AMD's Pat Moorehead, VP of Advanced Marketing, reiterated that the first 4x4 systems will be able to host a pair of AMD's quad-core processors once those CPUs become available. So eight-core systems are definitely in the works. Moorehead also avoided pinning the "x4" in the 4x4 code name to the number of GPUs in the system, saying the "x4" could refer to the number of hard drives or the gigs of RAM in a system instead. AMD fostered the impression that 4x4 would include multi-GPU solutions like quad SLI when they first introduced the concept, but the concept now seems to be focused mainly on dual CPU sockets. Could this be related to the fact that AMD just moved to purchase ATI, and that ATI hasn't yet managed to deliver a quad-GPU CrossFire configuration? Perhaps, or perhaps "4x4" is just a dreadful codename. Moorehead offered another internal AMD code name for the platform that we like better: The Quadfather."

The Quadfather

http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/10428

[AkXb70]

Fortunately, AMD has listened to feedback from the enthusiast community on this issue, and has pledged to sell a range of two-CPU bundles for 4x4 with price tags that extend to "well under $1000." Beyond that, many of the details of AMD's 4x4 plans are either undetermined or not yet ready for prime time. All of these processors will carry the Athlon 64 FX brand name, but AMD was not willing to discuss details like clock frequencies or L2 cache sizes for these new FX chips. We asked about the prospects for 4x4 capable versions of AMD's Energy Efficent Athlon 64 X2 CPUs, and AMD's reps said only that they'd consider the possibility.

seems like normal AM2 chips wont work on this modified socket?

and...when is this comming out? it seems like its a long way away from release if they still havnt pinned down which processors it will support

[AruisDante]

It's AMD. They don't like to talk about stuff very much. But based on that, I'd say that they have to implement the 2 and 8 seires Opteron's multi processor support in the new chips, which is why they won't work with normal CPU's, and why the first ones will be FX line processors, since they'll be based on the socket F 2 series opterons I'd assume.

But I'd gestimate some time twords the end of 2k7.

[keblerelf04]

think they will have something nice worked out with ati by then?

[Milkman]

lol i can't wait for sembody to register a new user on EOCF under the name quadfather... 4x4 show me some benchies