Good Things Come In Pairs

AMD's CEO, Hector Ruiz, says that we'll be seeing dual-core Opterons next year:

One of the most powerful things next year is going to be our dual-core product. To me, that's going to really shock the hell out of everyone, because it's going to be hardware-compatible, infrastructure-compatible, pin-compatible. I mean, people that have a 2-P system can slap in a dual-core product and end up with a 4-P system for the price of a 2-P. That's been the biggest drawback, everyone tells me. What keeps them from going from a 2-P to a 4-P system? It's price.

If your day job is anything like mine (I maintain the billing system for a small phone company) just the promise of this will be enough to take you to your happy place.

Translation for the non-geeks: Until this happens, there is a big price gap between small servers (with one or two processors) and medium-sized ones (with 4 to 8 processors). So if you outgrow your existing server, you can end up having to spend a lot of money. This move will push that point up a lot higher.

And at the same time, some very nice quad-processor Opteron motherboards are starting to show up at reasonable prices. Which pushes the bar up to eight way. Whee!

(eWeek interview)

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