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| AMD Plans to Postpone DDR3 Until 2008 |
| Wednesday, 04 October 2006 21:32 |
AMD has decided that processors with the K8L core, AMD's first single-die quad-core processor, will initially be built for Socket AM2+, rather than the new AM3 socket. Socket AM3 is planned to be used for DDR3 memory support, but AMD wants K8L processors (called Altair) to use DDR2 memory, at least at first. As a side note, AM2+ is only different from AM2 in that it uses HyperTransport 3.0 rather than HyperTransport 1.0. Socket AM2+ is considered to be a transitional socket to accomodate K8L. It's probably just as well, considering that DDR3 will be quite expensive for a while. Just think about how much it costs to upgrade from a 256MB card to a 512MB card with the same GPU. And multiply that by 8 if you want 2GB of DDR3, assuming the price doesn't go up as the modules get more dense, which of course it will. Socket AM3 CPUs have the added advantage of being able to work on Socket AM2 motherboards as well, but it doesn't work the other way around; a Socket AM3 motherboard will not work with a Socket AM2 processor. As a result, AMD has decided to wait on Socket AM3 until the middle of 2008, when they plan to announce processors built on the 45nm process. DDR3 support will be one of the features to come with Socket AM3 processors. For more info, check out the original article.
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