Thursday, May 18, 2006
AMD says its new chip design, quad-core processor, will boost performance without increasing power consumption. The company on May 16 previewed the new chip which it said will use to create higher-performing Opteron chips, in addition to boosting some of its other chip lines, during 2007.
The quad-core Opterons will offer the same power consumption levels as AMD's current dual-core Opterons, most of which use about 90 watts, despite the extra cores, Moore said.
To achieve that goal, AMD's quad-core designs will incorporate a number of new elements. Among them are redesigned processor cores, extra onboard cache and the addition of a higher-bandwidth version of the HyperTransport interconnect. AMD will also mint the chips using its forthcoming 65-nanometer manufacturing process, Moore said in his presentation.
By: DocMemory
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