[ Thanks to Phoronix for this link.
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“After months of speculations, on the morning of May 23, 2006
AMD had officially announced their AM2 socket. With AMD’s launch,
NVIDIA had unleashed their nForce 500 Chipset series, while other
manufacturers began offering up their various AM2 products. With
that Tuesday launch, Advanced Micro Devices had offered a complete
line of AM2 processors from the budget AMD Sempron 3000+ all the
way to the Athlon 64 FX-62 processor, though the key change in this
socket move was simply the integration of a DDR2 memory controller
over DDR1. Of the first AM2 motherboards to have entered our labs
was the ASRock AM2NF4G-SATA2…”