AMD to announce launch of Dual Core Processors today

While the computers powered by Intel’s dual core processors are already out in the market from manufacturers like Dell, AMD would be rolling out their products today. Analysts are expecting to see launch of dual-core, 64-bit Opteron Server processors for both desktops and servers from the company. The launch date was confirmed during the quarterly earnings conference call last Wednesday.

AMD hopes to get an edge over the competition Intel in the server, workstation, and desktop markets. They were the first to demonstrate the technology and are hoping that value for money offerings would lure the customers to their products. Gina Longoria, AMD’s product manager for the workstation and server segments said in a statement to the media: “We have been talking about and preparing for this for some time. We are the first to tape-out and demonstrate backward compatibility with 940-pin sockets with the same infrastructure and thermal envelope.”

The company also released some information on the pricing scales, which showed that some of the cheaper variants of these dual-core processors would indeed match the prices of higher end normal processors. The company claims that their technology is better than Intel due to its Direct Connect Architecture, which connects the two cores on the die, along with memory, I/O, and dedicated caches.

In May, the company is expected to launch the 200 series, which targets two-way servers and workstations and includes the 265 (1.8 GHz), 270 (2.0 GHz), and 275 (2.2 GHz). Then in June Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors are expected to come out in the market.