AMD Opterons dual cpu on 1 chip!!

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US MAG Eweek has an interview on its pages with Hector Ruiz, AMD's CEO, where he dilates on what his firm will get up to in the next 12 to 24 months.
And he said that next year its dual chip Opteron-whatever will "shock the hell" out of everyone because it will be pin compatible, hardware compatible and otherwise compatible with existing motherboards.

He reckons that people with a two processor product will be able to throw in a dual core Opteron and get a four way system for the price of two.

In other little bites, Ruiz says that the IBM Intel blade alliance is going nowhere.

[WeedVender]

Holy Shit !
Imagine a Dual Setup of this 2 in 1 processor.. or a Quad Setup for an impact on encoding times....

If Intel doesnt do anything by the time this comes out, they lost a customer....

But this sounds like the exact same technology as the Playstation 3 may employ.... a single CPU but with hundreds of tiny cpu's inside and each carries out a different function... ::drools::..

Although there may be a RAM bottle neck if they do something like this....

[flaninacupboard]

the opterons have their own memory controllers don't they? presumably you'd have two cores and two controllers.

parallell processing is neat and very effective for a continuos throughput task like encoding, not good for things like games though.

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I guess this is AMD reply to Intels Hyperthreading! Two cpu's acting like two cpu's is better than one kinda acting like two cpu's, guess thats Intels way to keep the p4 busy!

[Piccoro]

Link
This link has a lot of info and quotes them on the subject.