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Ed Stroligo here http://www.overclockers.com/tips00777/
talks about:
"Chip firm AMD held a press conference here in Monaco. It believes it can switch all of its single core processors to dual cores, and at the same price and with similar infrastructure, within a year.
(...)
AMD said it would be switching the whole of its family to dual cores at least a year before Intel managed to shift its uniprocessors to dual core systems. "
Mike Magee, The Inquirer
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23175
That implies there would be intro, mainstream and flagship dual cores of M2s... within a year.
Does that imply there would be no single cores?
We're to see the very first dual core CPUs come out at premium prices in Q3 of 2005 retail (June 2005 in OEM machines only) .... and then all of a sudden all AMD CPUs are dual cores in Q2 2006? I don't think so.
A leaked AMD roadmap earlier this year shows that only Windsor is clearly marked dual core, why wouldn't they mark Manila and Orleans dual core when they clearly marked Windsor as dual? They could have changed their plans (they often do) but that's just unlikley, don't you think?
So back to why would AMD talk about an all out switch 'within a year'?
With in a year of what? Could they have meant with a year from launch Q2 2006?
2007 is Longhorn time + I still think even then at least a Sempron would be single, don't you? There is and will be a demand for inexpensive CPUs for third world markets and email / word processing, why would AMD be making dual cores for that so soon, + after all, Intel plans on having singles for a while too...
talks about:
"Chip firm AMD held a press conference here in Monaco. It believes it can switch all of its single core processors to dual cores, and at the same price and with similar infrastructure, within a year.
(...)
AMD said it would be switching the whole of its family to dual cores at least a year before Intel managed to shift its uniprocessors to dual core systems. "
Mike Magee, The Inquirer
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23175
That implies there would be intro, mainstream and flagship dual cores of M2s... within a year.
Does that imply there would be no single cores?
We're to see the very first dual core CPUs come out at premium prices in Q3 of 2005 retail (June 2005 in OEM machines only) .... and then all of a sudden all AMD CPUs are dual cores in Q2 2006? I don't think so.
A leaked AMD roadmap earlier this year shows that only Windsor is clearly marked dual core, why wouldn't they mark Manila and Orleans dual core when they clearly marked Windsor as dual? They could have changed their plans (they often do) but that's just unlikley, don't you think?
So back to why would AMD talk about an all out switch 'within a year'?
With in a year of what? Could they have meant with a year from launch Q2 2006?
2007 is Longhorn time + I still think even then at least a Sempron would be single, don't you? There is and will be a demand for inexpensive CPUs for third world markets and email / word processing, why would AMD be making dual cores for that so soon, + after all, Intel plans on having singles for a while too...