AMD RECENTLY had talks with its motherboard partners and revealed to them its 4x4 anti-Conroe strategy.
If all goes well, the boards and the dual Athlon FX CPUs for ultra high-end gaming will be ready for the Yule shopping madness.
Back at Computex and shortly after the show, none of the motherboard manufacturers would confirm that it had started work on 4x4 boards but some vendors did acknowledge that there were talks about it.
AMD wants to take the gaming crown back and it is using Nvidia's strategy also known as, do what ever it takes to regain the performance leadership.
Nvidia taught us all that you can put two cards or even four cards together and flog them, and this is exactly what AMD wants to do.
Two Athlon FX 64s in a dual-CPU motherboard will certainly give Conroe a run for its money, no matter how aggressively Intel clocks its new babies.
Q4 is the target and by, Q1 2007, AMD should have established its quad-core babies to take the fight to Intel's Conroe.
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