[ Thanks to Augustus for this link.
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“Dual-core CPUs have finally arrived to the server/workstation
market with today’s announcement of AMD’s dual-core Opteron
processors. This is something that has been talked about for a
while now and today we finally get our first crack at putting them
through our gambit of tests. Although this is similar to what Intel
announced a couple of weeks back, AMD’s implementation is very
different and, while Intel’s launch was targeted at the desktop,
AMD went for the high-end server and workstation market. So what
will these new processors mean for workstations and how do they
work with Linux? We’ve got some brand new Opteron 875s in the shop
to show you. We’ll be putting these new processors against Intel’s
latest ‘Irwindale’ Xeons which run at 3.6GHz and feature 2MB of L2
cache and throw in AMD’s fastest Opteron 252s for good
measure…”