AMD goes Torro on Torrenza open source socket
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| AMD, displaying a rare breed of initiative for a chip manufacturer has
| opened up the hardware specifications for its Opteron server processor,
| enabling other chipmakers to design co-processors that will be socket
| compatible with an Opteron motherboard.
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| AMD's vision appears to be an attempt to emulate the software open
| source paradigm in a hardware environment by opening up the AMD
| architecture to third party developers.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/5705/53/
This could become interesting as they also acquired the notorious (in an Open
Source context) ATi. Sun's open source (GPL-licensed) chip design was
recently forked by a spinoff/startup company.
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