AI
Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:40:30 PM
(edit) If they manage quad core in Q106, they can probably manage socket F for it at the same time.
Notice that while Digitimes mentions H206 for Socket M2 (and socket F) this slide shows the launch of M2 starting in H1.
It looks, rather, that by H206, ALL of the performance segment will be on M2 instead of 939.
Thus, I wouldn't be surprised if socket F was also planned to launch in early Q2, so a pullback into Q1 wouldn't be far-fetched.
BTW, no FB-DIMM support in 2006, per AMD. They don't see it being useful until at least 2007. (so said Weber)
Now, I suppose socket F could build in the necessary pins to handle FB-DIMMs in the future, even if 2006 CPUs don't support them.
Notice that while Digitimes mentions H206 for Socket M2 (and socket F) this slide shows the launch of M2 starting in H1.
It looks, rather, that by H206, ALL of the performance segment will be on M2 instead of 939.
Thus, I wouldn't be surprised if socket F was also planned to launch in early Q2, so a pullback into Q1 wouldn't be far-fetched.
BTW, no FB-DIMM support in 2006, per AMD. They don't see it being useful until at least 2007. (so said Weber)
Now, I suppose socket F could build in the necessary pins to handle FB-DIMMs in the future, even if 2006 CPUs don't support them.
