[zeugma]

Yes, I remember them. I like this one in that it's a general purpose socket. Anyone can come up with anything to put in there.

It will be interesting to see if anyone can come up with some good FPGA chips to take advantage of this.  

[Mr. Jazzy]

Decentralizing the processing of specific tasks increases through-put. . .






Just like a decentralized government with limited central powers governs best.

[zeugma]

I should have googled before I posted. 

Check this out: 

To achieve stellar system performance, Advanced Micro Devices has opened its processor socket interface as part of the just released Torrenza platform to allow companies like DRC (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chicago-based XtremeData and others to develop and deploy application-specific coprocessors to work alongside AMD64 processors in multisocket processor systems. The coprocessors plug directly into an empty CPU socket and can be dynamically reconfigured, thus permitting users to change logic configurations to better match the algorithms that need acceleration.