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SPOTLIGHT: AMD tinkering with open-source chip sockets

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Advanced Micro Devices wants to open-source its chip socket specifications so that other companies can build Opteron co-processors. AMD's calling this the Torrenza Initiative. ATI, which AMD recently acquired, will make use of the socket first. But other companies like Cray, Fujitsu-Siemens, IBM and Sun are all considering it as well. Article