AMD Announces Quad Core Tape-Out

Gr8Apes writes "The DailyTech has a snippet wherein AMD announced that quad core Opterons are taped out and will be socket compatible with the current DDR2 Opterons. In fact, all AM3 chips will be socket compatible with AM2 motherboards. For a little historical perspective, AMD's dual-core Opteron was taped out in June 2004, and then officially introduced in late April, 2005.' AMD also claims that the new quad processors will be demo'd this year. Perhaps Core 2 will have a very short reign at the top?" From the article: "The company's press release claims 'AMD plans to deliver to customers in mid-2007 native Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors that incorporate four processor cores on a single die of silicon.'"

Re:Taped out?

[crabpeople]

Its probably when they tap the chip assembly tray out so they fall to the counter. Just like muffins.

In other news...

[djcinsb]

Citing similarities between blade counts in razors and processor counts in servers, Gillette began acquiring shares of AMD in a hostile takeover bid.

Re:tee hee! "Taped out" !!

[Profane MuthaFucka]

Time to start calling it "Tube Out"

So when did AMD get bought out by Schick?

[Pluvius]

And when will Gillette-Intel come out with its five-core Fusion system with the patented "Serving Surface" for a close and comfortable network solution?

Rob

quad core tapped out!

[Anonymous Coward]

The Quad Core Tap Out sounds like it would be a good name for a wrestling submission.

Re:Buy for tomorrow

[Peter La Casse]

#include "how-often-do-you-upgrade-just-your-cpu.h"

Naming

[Ed Avis]

AMD will really miss an opportunity if they call the new chip anything other than Tetrathlon.