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D'ye ken Kentsfield?

AMD REFUSED to be drawn on hard details of when it will release its 4X4 design for fast PCs aimed at gamers, but representatives said it's likely to arrive in the near future.


The plan essentially allows motherboard manufacturers to build designs which place two two sockets next to each other, each of which holds a dual core processor.

We'd expect such a design to be relatively easy to initiate. And it could be AMD's chance to knock Intel's Kentsfield four CPU plan off course.

The representatives also told the INQ they could not comment on speculation that AMD would ditch its "Alchemy" range of Geode processors.

Nor would they be drawn on whether or not its Torrenza plan, which we reported on yesterday evening, might include a graphics processor sitting next to a CPU. The logical application of a second chip using AMD architecture would be for vertical markets, the officials said.

The INQuir3r