AMD Dual-Core 1xx Opterons ‘Go Socket 939′

AMD’s upcoming dual-core Opteron 1xx chips for one-way servers and workstations will use the chip maker’s Socket 939 interconnect rather than the more usual Socket 940 system. So claim Taiwanese motherboard vendors sources cited by DigiTimes.

Dual-core Opteron 165, 170 and 175 processors are expected to ship in Q3 after being formally introduced later this quarter. They will use Socket 939 to give server and workstation vendors access to cheaper motherboards and less expensive unbuffered memory modules in place of the ECC DIMMs used in Socket 940 mobos.