AMD's New Chip Ploy—Open Source Sockets
Advanced Micro Device plans to publish its Opteron socket specification in a move that it hopes will boost sales by letting other chip makers design application-specific co-processors to be integrated alongside Opteron for optimized performance.
AMD's Torrenza Innovation Socket initiative describes in detail a two-socket motherboard that will have an AMD chip in one socket and another processor in the other socket. By publishing the specification, AMD is making it easier for chip makers to design processors that just snap into an AMD motherboard, rather than being connected via a system bus or some other manner.
"The combination of growing AMD market share and the performance benefits of being on the backbone as opposed to a systems bus should make this worthwhile," says Mike Feibus, an analyst with TeckKnowledge Strategies Inc.
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