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Subject: Re: Reason why a Dual Xeon is chosen instead of AMD MP ?

Author: Dan Andersson

Date: 07:18:06 05/17/03

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 AMD has a whole line of silicon products. But if we limit us to CPUs with the
x86+ ISA that are not for embedded applications they have the Athlon and the
Opteron.
 The Athlon exist in a few current revisions Althlon-M, Athlon XP (Thurougbred
and Barton cores) and Athlon MP (Same two cores as XP). The Athlon XP is not a
SMP certified processor. The Athlon MP is SMP certified.
 The Opteron OTOH is the only current product based on the newest core from AMD.
And as the Opteron is primarily a server CPU it is by default SMP enabled.
 There is an Athlon 64 for the desktop on the AMD roadmap. It is based on the
same core as the Opteron. And it is indicated that it won't be SMP enabled.
Rumours abound about modifications to the roadmap though.

MvH Dan Andersson

• Re: Reason why a Dual Xeon is chosen instead of AMD MP ? Russell Reagan 07:39:08 05/17/03
  • Re: Reason why a Dual Xeon is chosen instead of AMD MP ? Dan Andersson 09:43:09 05/17/03
    • Re: Reason why a Dual Xeon is chosen instead of AMD MP ? Peter Stayne 11:06:08 05/17/03

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