Re: a more interesting question is a dual chipset for P4, or should I say the lack of it
Given the memory bandwidth that even a single P4 needs to avoid having prefetch cripple its performance, it may be never. But if they ever manage to get Colusa out the door, it should support Dual CPUs.
System controller
Profusion PIII, FSB 100, AGP, OctCPU, SDRAM, PCI-66
Greendale mobile, RDRAM
Placer ??
Plumas Gallatin, DualCPU, InfiniBand
Plumas LE Gallatin
Brookdale Willamette, SD/DDR
Tulloch Prescott
82850e (Tehama-E) Willamette
82850 (Tehama) Willamette, AGP, FSB400, RDRAM PC800
82860 (Colusa) Foster, DualCPU, FSB400, RDRAM PC800, 8GB max
82870 Xeon/Itanium, AGP, max. 2GB RAM, OctCPU, RDRAM or SDRAM/DDR 266
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