New Opteron server processors
Advanced Micro Devices officially unveiled its latest dual-core Opteron server processors yesterday.
The most significant change for the new AMD CPUs is that instead of the previous 940-pin Socket 940 slot, the new release copies can be inserted into the 1207-pin Socket F slot, and these pins are no longer located on the processor but on the motherboard. AMD claims that quad-core units, which will be released around mid-2007, will use the same socket. Several vendors have announced that they will soon be building their latest Opteron-based server, including IBM, Sun, HP, and the lesser-known Egenera, Rackable Systems and Supermicro.
Socket 940 and Socket F
For all Opterons just introduced, it uses the 1000 MHz HyperTransport system bus, handles 667 MHz DDR2 memory, supports virtualization technology called AMD-V, and has 2 MB of LXNUMX cache.
Only certain copies of the 1000 series stand out from the line: they are also made with a Socket AM2 slot and a memory controller that supports DDR2-800, meaning they are eerily similar to high-end desktop solutions.
Source: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20060815071707.html
