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Information Technology News AMD goes Torro on Torrenza open source socket
Information Technology News AMD goes Torro on Torrenza open source socket | AMD goes Torro on Torrenza open source socket |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Thursday, 21 September 2006 | |
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 AMD, displaying a rare breed of initiative for a chip manufacturer has opened up the hardware specifications for its Opteron server processor, enabling other chipmakers to design co-processors that will be socket compatible with an Opteron motherboard.Featured Whitepaper
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Under the Torrenza vision of AMD, other chip maunfacturers would be able to design and manufacture co-processors that would be socket compatible with an Opteron motherboard. In one socket, there would be an AMD Opteron processor and in another socket a co-processor from another manufacturer. AMD acquired graphics chipmaker ATI in July, an acknowledgement that one chip manufacturer cannot supply everything |
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