Hammer to have near 100 million transistors
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on November 27, 2002 at 2:41:26 PM
A transistor is the thing that controls the Zero and One data flow. That is a huge amount of them as well. Nearly 2.5 times the amount of the current Athlon. This is for Opteron with 1 MB of cache.
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The chip will debut at around 2GHz and come out with a performance rating number in the mid-3,000s, added Dirk Meyer, senior vice president of AMD's computational products group. Current Athlon performance ratings top out at 2,800.
The 1MB version--the one that will contain 100 million transistors--will mostly be sold into servers and be marketed under the Opteron name, sources say. A smaller version with 256KB or more of cache and an integrated memory controller will be marketed to desktops under the Athlon 64 name.