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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

AMD Launches Dual-Core Athlon 64 X2

Like one launched last week by Intel, the chip contains two processors on a single piece of silicon and represents one of the biggest changes in PC processor architecture for several years. Dual-core chips offer users higher performance because tasks can be balanced between the two cores.

"[Everyone] will benefit dramatically and qualitatively with multi-core," said Dirk Meyer, president and chief operating officer of AMD's microprocessor solutions sector, at the company's launch event.

The Athlon 64 X2 is hardware-compatible with motherboards for AMD's single-core Athlon 64 chip, although current boards will require a BIOS (basic input output system) upgrade. The advantage of this is that boards for the chip are already on the market, and it also makes upgrading an existing system relatively simple.

The reason: the new chips will deliver even greater performance gains when used with a 64-bit operating system. Microsoft just launched such a version of Windows but it is not easy to obtain for the average user, and there are still many issues associated with drivers for peripherals.

see also: pcworld

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