These days nearly all developers of hardware constantly introduce new brand-names for nearly every single technology they implement in order to attract attention of potential clients. They brand data-transfer patterns, they call L2 cache with special names and some even brand their own processor’s buses so to show their own uniqueness.
AMD is not an exception from all the companies in this industry and also wants to attract massive attention and show that it is different from the others. As we have managed to find out, AMD will introduce a special trademark for the Socket 940 intended for the Opteron processors. The company will brand the socket as “AMD Socket 940” showing that even if other companies, such as Intel, Sun, VIA or Transmeta decide to utilise processor packaging with 940 pins, there was no mess with different types of Sockets, since AMD Socket 940 is intended for AMD x86-64 chips only.
AMD Opteron x86-64 CPUs appear on the surface on the 22nd of April, that is on Tuesday, next week. Keep your eyes opened since there is plenty of interesting things coming your way before and after the mentioned date.
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Discussion started: 04/19/03 01:35:45 AM
Latest comment: 04/19/03 01:35:53 AM
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Stupid name. Why not socket B? Athlon have had such an advantage over the years by sticking to a single socket. I've swapped in and out a 900MHz Athlon, a 1GHz athlon, and now 2 1800+ Athlon XP's in my 2 PCs over the last 2 years, without needing a new motherboard. Socket A was a convenient name. In the meantime Intel went through I-dont-know-how-many sockets, forcing users to buy new motherboards. Keeping AMD to letters while Intel users are forced to remember many different numbers, would have kept things simple. Then Athlon64 could have had socket C (that would have caused problems, since B would have been faster than C).
[Posted by: will smith | Date: 04/19/03 01:35:52 AM]
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