AMCC officially announces Titan dual-core

Announced on Friday...
AppliedMicro Introduces Multi-core System-on-Chip For Next Generation Converged Applications

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The hardware features of the APM 83290 SoC include dual Titan cores, each with a floating point unit, 512KB of shared L2 Cache memory with ECC support, full hardware memory and I/O coherency, 64-bit DDR2 SDRAM interface, security acceleration for IPSec, SSL, Kasumi, SNOW3G and public-key protocols. Other features include a classification engine, multi-channel DMA engine, and high speed interfaces for Gigabit Ethernet ports, IEEE1588v2 support, PCI Express? v2.0, Serial RapidIO?, USB and SATA.
Availability
Applied Micro's APM 83290 is available now in sample quantities with <b>production quantities expected in Q1 2010</b>.


So there you go, another nice candidate processor for OS4. Let's hope it supports at least dual SATA and at least 8x PCI-Express.

Maybe this has something to do with Hyperion's secret project and Acube's silence lately?
Did the butler do it with the candlestick holder?

@gregthecanuck
interesting "ray of hope" :p

@gregthecanuck

If this came for os4.x,people would sell bodyparts on ebay to get one. Hehe.

Finally ! (If it matters to our community at all.)

@Antique

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I agree.

@Antique

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And if Hyperion were to get proper multi-core support, people would even sell their own body parts to get it!

@Spirantho

Possible multi-core support was hinted at for an OS 4.2-ish timeframe. Heard it on the Amiwest audio feed.

Of all the major upgrades being whined at for OS4 (memory protection, resource tracking, MP support) I am guessing MP support is the "easiest" to do.

@gregthecanuck
But not the feature we need the most IMHO.

But I would welcome a Titan board even if only one core was supported in the beginning

@Troels
I believe that if they do a kernel extension they will include memory protection for new apps and sandbox for legacy + they could add PAE support for 36-Bit memory addressing (fully supported on the Titans, up to 64GB in this mode).

Multi-core would be a natural evolution.

@Antique

too late.. I already sold half of mine to buy my Sam flex