Official details of AMD's new processor family
Although we've had news of AMD's new processors, we can now get a glimpse of the slides of the official AMD presentation.
With the advent of new processors, the dual-core Athlon series is slipping into the mid-range.
Among the innovations of the K10 core are features such as the native quad-core architecture, shared L3 cache, SSE4 instruction set, HyperTransport 3.0 interface, and more.
Phenom processors will be compatible with current AM2 motherboards, while HT 3.0 will require the new AM2 +.
Of course, the Opteron family will also be renewed based on the roadmap above.
In mid-2007, the new Opterons will be introduced. Up to 95W and low voltage versions have a TW of 68W. Not a bad one from a quad-core processor.
Hardware virtualization is a very useful feature in an enterprise environment. We can see the operational difference between the obsolete front-side bus, MCH, and the integrated memory controller during virtualization.
