AMD Announces 40W Six-Core AMD Opteron EE processor

[FiXT]

AMD today announced the immediate availability of the new Six-Core AMD Opteron EE processor at 40W ACP. Delivering up to 31 percent higher performance-per-watt over standard Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, the Six-Core AMD Opteron EE processor is tailored to meet the demands of customers who need strong performance, but must trim out every watt p... [ Read full article ]

[CMetaphor]

Seriously.... someone give me a few thousand bucks... please? Or maybe I could get hired by AMD... laff.

[TRTW]

I had no idea that 6 cores were on the way.....

[FiXT]

Wonder when this technology will port over to the desktop users?

People are already willing to drop $1G on the Corei7 975 CPU's - one would think that a six core consumer level CPU would have some appeal as well?

[CMetaphor]

Originally Posted by FiXT

Wonder when this technology will port over to the desktop users?

People are already willing to drop $1G on the Corei7 975 CPU's - one would think that a six core consumer level CPU would have some appeal as well?

These bad boys are still socket F, using BGA instead of AMDs standard PGA processor type. Perhaps with AMDs next-generation architecture -crossfingers- they'll having something like this available.