AMD Readies Power-Friendly Desktop CPUs

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=850

"AMD has been quite the busy bee lately. The Athlon FX-60 launched a few weeks ago, the Opteron x85 series launches in a few weeks, and the whole platform will get an overhaul in early June. AMD's latest roadmap reveals more about all of these projects and adds several more that have not yet been disclosed. AMD's newest roadmaps claim the new 940 pin Socket AM2 will launch at Computex Taipei on June 6, 2006... that's 6-6-6 for those of you playing at home. The AM2 socket is not compatible with existing Socket 940 CPUs, but will allow AM2 processors to utilize up to DDR2-800."

I knew this was coming, so it's nice to finally see - it means the future is based on small, quieter, more energy-efficient desktop PCs. Gotta' love it!

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=850

"AMD has been quite the busy bee lately. The Athlon FX-60 launched a few weeks ago, the Opteron x85 series launches in a few weeks, and the whole platform will get an overhaul in early June. AMD's latest roadmap reveals more about all of these projects and adds several more that have not yet been disclosed. AMD's newest roadmaps claim the new 940 pin Socket AM2 will launch at Computex Taipei on June 6, 2006... that's 6-6-6 for those of you playing at home. The AM2 socket is not compatible with existing Socket 940 CPUs, but will allow AM2 processors to utilize up to DDR2-800."

I knew this was coming, so it's nice to finally see - it means the future is based on small, quieter, more energy-efficient desktop PCs. Gotta' love it!