Socket AM3 has appeared among the news earlier on and it’s simply AMD’s coming platform for the Athlon series of processors. The big news with new with Socket AM3 is the support for DDR3-SDRAM and HyperTransport 3.0. The latest information about AM3 says that the platform will have to wait until the middle of 2008 after that AMD decided to launch the K8L architecture for Socket AM2+, to begin with. Intel’s equivalent platform is called Socket B and is a LGA1366 interface, where the extra processor pins, 1366 instead of today’s 775, are needed for the integrated memory controller. Intel’s first Socket B processors Nehalem and Bloomfield will namely not just support DDR3-SDRAM at up to 1.6GHz but also sport an integrated memory controller according to VR-Zone.
