Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/21/amd_open_opteron/AMD opens Opteron to all some By Ashlee Vance in Mountain View (ashlee.vance@theregister.co.uk) Published Thursday 21st September 2006 17:46Â GMT AMD has expanded its friends and family program in an obvious way by allowing partners to plug their CPUs, accelerators and other components directly into Opteron processor sockets. AMD's unveiling today of Torrenza 2 - aka the Torrenza Innovation Socket - builds on an existing deal that let third parties tap into the company's Hypertransport technology. Now, AMD has agreed to open up the entire Opteron socket specifications to preferred partners willing to pay a licensing fee. As a...