DDR3 available in Q4?

[BrownTown]

its good for bandwidth, and bad for latentcy, jsut like we have known about DDR3 for the last 3 years. Eventually the latentcy will come down like it has with DDR2, but DDR3 is for high bandwidth application, not low latentcy. DDR3 has been working for some time, but there is currently no need for it, and memmory companies are in no rush to push a new form of memmory when DDR2 is selling well and they want to ride it for as long as possible. No consipracy or anything, jsut no need for more bandwidth at this point, and so no need for DDR3.

 

[Markfw]

Video cards have it now, so whats the big deal about converting the CPU to use it ? (I know AMD internal memory controller would have to change, but just like DDR2, another revision)

 

[the Chase]

Originally posted by: Noubourne
Is "M2" supposedly the new name for the 1207 pin socket coming with the quad-core FX chip later this year that supposedly will compete with Conroe in the uber-high end market?

IIRC, M2 was the name of AM2 before some sort of legal dispute that forced AMD to change the name of the current AM2 sockets to AM2. I would be surprised if they used it to name their next socket.

I don't have time to look it up now, but I seem to recall hearing that the socket for the quad-core AMD chip later this year would be called Socket F, have 1207 pins, and be pin-compatible with K8L when it came out in '07. Could be wrong on the K8L compatible part though...

You're thinking about socket F. That has 1207 pins and will house the new Opteron CPU's.(Server platform). Due to launch in July sometime I believe. Talk of it being possibly delayed some though.

Did we ever hear if it was really a legal dispute with BMW that forced AMD to rename the socket to AM2? Or did they just change their roadmap some?

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Dont forget guys that in '07 we will have quad core CPUs available.

They CAN and WILL use the bandwidth.

And unless the market would like to support quad cores over sound cards and physics cards, those extra two cores will be next to useless.

Did we ever hear if it was really a legal dispute with BMW that forced AMD to rename the socket to AM2? Or did they just change their roadmap some?

Don't 3do and gillette both have products named M2 as well?

 

[BlingBlingArsch]

ddr3 and quadcore my a$$. i want a conroe and ddr2.

 

[the Chase]

Originally posted by: Fox5

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Dont forget guys that in '07 we will have quad core CPUs available.

They CAN and WILL use the bandwidth.

And unless the market would like to support quad cores over sound cards and physics cards, those extra two cores will be next to useless.

Did we ever hear if it was really a legal dispute with BMW that forced AMD to rename the socket to AM2? Or did they just change their roadmap some?

Don't 3do and gillette both have products named M2 as well?

Yep- http://www.safetyrazors.net/schick/schicktech.htm Have to scroll down a ways down the page.

Sorry for OT.

 

[Furen]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Video cards have it now, so whats the big deal about converting the CPU to use it ? (I know AMD internal memory controller would have to change, but just like DDR2, another revision)

Video card DON'T have it now. GDDR3 is actually a heavily customized version of normal DDR2. GDDR2 was a hacked version of DDR1, and it sucked badly. GDDR4 could be considered the equivalent of DDR3 in concept but the DDRs and GDDRs are pretty damn different nowadays.