News Extra Athlon64 pin mystery solved

Also from the Inq. This lunchtime:

THE MYSTERY OF WHY a version of AMD's upcoming 64-bit processor will come in 940 and 939 versions, first revealed in the INQUIRER, appears to have been partly cracked.

Rob Squires at AMD Zone said that he had a chance to ask AMD about the pin configurations, and first of all the chip firm has now officially confirmed there will be 940 and 939 versions of the chips.

AMD said that the extra pin is needed to work on six layer Opteron motherboards. As we said earlier, the chips will first start shipping in 940 Opteron configurations, and they will start to appear after the official launch date in September.

Full story here, along with a link to the original AMDZone article.