AMD Shows off Three new Sockets at Spring IDF 2006
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 7, 2006 2:27 AM EST- Posted in
- Trade Shows
Socket-F: LGA and DDR2 for Servers
On the server side, AMD had a working demo of their new Socket-F (1207-pin) Opteron products. Just like Socket-AM2 and S1, the Socket-F platform supports a dual channel DDR2 memory interface. The greater number of pins will be useful in accommodating the power needs of quad core Opteron products due out in 2007. With the dramatic increase in pins over the previous Opteron socket, AMD had to move to a LGA interface similar to what Intel uses in all of their desktop CPU sockets.
AMD's Socket-F Opteron in action
While we would've liked to have seen/heard more from AMD, it looks like this will be it for IDF at least. The limelight will be exclusively Intel's at this IDF, Conroe, Merom and Woodcrest await...
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mlittl3 - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
S940 had 10% unused pins not S754.psychobriggsy - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
Nah, other sites say 638.http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/200505100...">http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/200505100...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_S1">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_S1
and more.
mlittl3 - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
This information may not longer be accurate. I just can't see how AMD can go from 754 pins for single-channel DDR memory to 638 pins for dual-channel DDR2 memory. It just blows my mind. :)psychobriggsy - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
Power pins.A 35W processor needs a lot less power pins in the socket than a potential 89W processor.
Also S754 might have had more than one hypertransport link in the design, even if it was never used.
JackPack - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
AMD has been showing off that Turion 64 X2 "Yamato" platform for a while now. If May is the launch target, how about showing some design wins?AMD Liiv looks promising, but again, who are the PC hardware partners?