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Subject: Re: If you're considering an OPTERON upgrade... Wait a minute!

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 19:38:53 01/27/06

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On January 27, 2006 at 18:36:47, Frank Wies wrote:

>They are also planning to ship quad cores later this year ... the ramp will be
>in 2007.

Expect end 2007 there will be a few quad cores, at massive prices, requiring
massive cooling.

Those dual cores run so so hot already idle despite massive cooling,
it'll take a bit longer than predicted.

>Now, if our little fish goes MP, Vas and company will have to figure out how to
>take advantage of all that CPU power on one chip!
>Regards,
>Frank
>
>http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=460



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