AMD readying four by four socket

A BOGGER at Mercury News reckons AMD will show off a spanking new socket which lets builders put in two dual core CPUs next to each other on a mobo.

Dean Takahashi, for it is he, said that the move is intended to spoil Intel's up and coming Conroe party.

He reckons it's like Gillette adding four blades to its razors, a simile* which escapes us. But the firm is likely to show the thing off at an analysts day it's holding this evening, Blighty-time.

The bog is here. µ

* Surely five blades