AMD outlines its quad-core computing

 

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By Alun Williams

Posted on 19 Sep 2006 at 19:18

'Intel faces scalability problems,' he maintained, 'due to bandwidth issues through an overloaded Front Side Bus.'

Benefits would also be had, he claimed, for AMD's virtualisation offerings: the Direct Connect architecture can better enable support for the overheads of such multi-application processing.

Looking further ahead, to 2008, AMD's server roadmap headlines features such as Direct Connect v2.0 (able to support eight-core chips), support for virtual I/O and larger caches, as well as 45nm process technology (courtesy of ongoing work with IBM). In terms of chipset and platform support, there will be support for I/O virtualization, PCI Express 2, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, TCP Offload, Serial SCSI and Serial ATA II.