When CPUs start appearing using 90 nanometer technology, it gives the chip companies a lot more transistors to play with.
So we presume that is why AMD, in a white paper on its web site which has escaped our notice before, talks about how a single processor with two Hammer cores could interface into a north bridge using the system request interface (SRI).
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