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Subject: Re: Dual core opterons to be pin for pin compatible with single core units!

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 15:15:52 04/29/04

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On April 29, 2004 at 16:01:15, Robert Pawlak wrote:

>Could make for a really cost effective SMP system!
>
>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1574332,00.asp
>
>Bob

What exactly does "dual core" mean? Is it similar to the hyper threading of
Intel (where we see some speed improvements, but lesser than true dual machine),
or can we expect close to a 2x speedup for one of these "dual core" chips?



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