Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today announced the plans to launch its dual-core microprocessors. AMD has finalized the architectural design of the dual-core processors and are expected debut in 2005. The world's second largest chip maker has confirmed the development of the design and will continue to produce high-powered AMD Opteron, server-level microprocessors, and AMD64, desktop and mobile-level chips, for the remainder of 2004.
The company did not comment on the specific architectural improvements and enhancements to the core, but by analyzing the roadmap produced by AMD, it does make sense to believe that the dual-core chips will start out as high-end server-level processors while slowly making their way up to the desktop market segments.
The California based firm reports the dual-core chips to be highly important in enterprise-level tasks and hopes to spread the dual-core chips to other market segments eventually.
The dual-core Opteron processors, which are expected to come out in mid-2005 will have different cache size and support for dual-processor and multi-processor platforms than high-end Athlon 64 chips, which are expected to debut in late-2005, said AMD.
AMD reports the high-end market to quickly adopt the dual-core architecture for enterprise-level applications, but couldn't comment on the desktop microprocessor transition. AMD continues to be excited about its AMD64 architecture for the desktop market.
The new chips are expected to support DDR2 system memory as well as Socket 939 and Socket 940 platforms.
The chip maker said the new chips will be produced in its Fab 30 facility, which is located in Dresden, Germany. The processors will use 90nm process technology.
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