AMD SKU Shuffle Puts Opteron "F" Into August Launch

AMD’s Opteron Revision “F,” or Opteron CPUs that use DDR2 memory, has officially been postponed to August 1, 2006 according to US distributors. The same US distributors earlier claimed that AMD would ditch its 2x1MB L2 cache components for the AM2 socket. AMD’s internal roadmap had originally proclaimed July 11, 2006 as the embargo date for the DDR2 Opterons, though almost immediately rumors that the new socket was delayed cropped up at The Inquirer.

If you were holding off your AM2 system build until Opterons were released, then your wait is now even longer. On the bright side, we should be seeing Intels ‘AMD’ killer released mid-July, which could change your perspective.