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AMD Peps Up Its Workstation Processor

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Phantasm66, Dec 10, 2002.

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  1. Phantasm66 Newcomer, in training

    "Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is rolling out its latest high-end multiprocessing server and workstation chip, the Athlon MP 2400+.

    The new processor, unveiled on Tuesday, joins the 2200+ and 2000+ chips designed for industries that use compute-intensive applications, such as high-performance computing environments and research institutions, according to the Sunnyvale, Calif., company.
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    More here, and here.

    In seperate news, The Inquirer is reporting here that "the firm [AMD] will likely soon release multiprocessing "MP" processors that support the faster 333MHz front side buses that the Athlon XP supports."

    Its understood that a move to a 333MHz bus is not a particularly tricky matter for the MP, and that "current chipsets supporting the 333MHz system bus may already support some MP chips, although motherboards are not qualified or supported for such a revision."

    More here at The Inquirer

    According to the AthlonXP.com website, here, "The MP2400+'s are the first SMP certified AMD processor to reach the 2.0GHz mark..."
  2. Vehementi TechSpot Paladin

    Wait...AMD peps up it's new workstation processor or server???

    Sounds good.
  3. Didou Bowtie extraordinair!

    Any word on the 760-MPX chipset ? As far as I know, it doesn't support any FSB above 133.:dead:
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