Intel's Geneseo: A watered-down Torrenza?

Written by t-readyroc

Friday, 20 April 2007

Intel's announced their Geneseo platform, which it hopes will compete with AMD's Torrenza. Both platorms are open in that third-party developers can design "accelerators" for them, however, AMD will be allowing full access to the Opteron socket itself, while Intel will only allow accelerators to be dropped into a PCIe slot. Of these two platforms, I think that Torrenza will definitely be the one to watch, as any third party hardware will have direct access to the HT bus, & therefore, the CPU itself.

 

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