Intel's four-core processors are already around our necks, but we still have to wait another year for AMD's solutions.
According to a recent roadmap, AMD's four-core processor does not appear to arrive before the third quarter of 2007.
In our previous news, we already reported on the AM2 + socket, the arrival of which coincides with the Altair processor running under the codename. This means that in the next one year, AMD will be ringing the 4 × 4 platform against Intel’s 2 + 2 core solution.
Let's see what we know about Altair! The processor will be built at 65 nanometers with SOI technology. Its clock speed is likely to start at 2,70 to 2,90 GHz, and its second-level cache will be 512 KB per core, which means 2 MB of second-level cache after a quick head count. The second-level cache will be followed by a third-level cache, which means another 2 MB of memory, which will be shared by the four cores. Interestingly, thanks to the 65-nanometer bandwidth and SOI technology, the TDP stops at 125 watts. Perhaps naturally, it will support HyperTransport version 3.0, which will speed up to 4 GHz, or double that of Hyper-Transport 2.0.
AMD expects new processors to account for 2007 percent of sales in the third quarter of 10 and 20 percent in the fourth quarter.
