AMD's quad core processors are on their way

Reports have AMD's new processor out in a week or two. This means that they will beat Intel to the market with a quad core processor. The only down fall that we are getting is that the processors will cost over $1000 a piece for the lower end versions. Making them completely uneconomical to buy at this time.

At any rate, each core on the new processor is supposed to have 2MB of L2 cache each, making the quad core an astounding 8MB of L2 cache. Whether it ends up being worth it for that is a different story, the software industry has yet to catch up with dual core in any way. Most, when I say most I mean 98%, of the software that is on the market today does not benefit from dual core architecture at all.

So we will see soon on what will come out of the AMD quad core movement.