AMD K8L "Altair" 2007年第三季上場

Monica Chen, Taipei; Rodney Chan, DigiTimes.com [Monday 2 October 2006]

AMD has indicated to motherboard makers that it will advance the launch of its quad-core K8L desktop platform to the third quarter of 2007, according to sources at the motherboard makers. Previously, AMD had reportedly scheduled the launch of the K8L platform for 2008.

AMD's quad-core desktop processor will be named Altair, and will be manufactured on a 65-nm node, with clock speeds between 2.7-2.9GHz, the sources indicated. Each core will have 512KB of L2 cache, and all cores will share a 2MB L3 cache, the sources added.

The quad-core series that AMD will launch in the third quarter next year include Athlon 64FX and Athlon 64X4 parts, the sources indicated.

However, AMD's branch office in Taiwan today declined to comment on its planning for the quad-core platform.

The sources revealed that Altair will adopt Hyper-Transport 3.0, but the K8L platform will be compatible with K8 motherboards that run Hyper-Transport 1.0.

According to AMD's plans, quad-core processors will account for 10% of its shipments of mainstream and higher-end products by the third quarter of 2007, and the percentage will increase to 20% by the end of 2007, the sources said.

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