I gotcha now, Superart. I was like "wtf???", but that all makes sense now.
The FX chip is a rebadged 148 chip. They are expected to announce the X48 line of opterons by the end of the month, but I imagine they took the best of the 148s in production and labelled them "FX" chips.
As for the 90nm chips, they have links in that thread I posted earlier to comments during shareholder meetings with AMD in which they state that they have NOT made any 90nm chips yet and are going to be making test runs in Q1-Q2 next year, and they state that ramping won't happen until later. I would be interested in reading conflicting comments ... though I would trust comments in shareholder meetings more than off-the-cuff comments by the brass outside of them ... if you lie during your shareholder meetings you are just asking to get your pee-pee whacked by the SEC where offhand remarks at other times can just be chalked up to accidentally misreporting information.
As for the later opterons not being unlocked, if you have any links to proof I would want to read that. I'm not doubting you in the least, so don't get me wrong ... I just want to make sure I'm not missing something here, and since I WILL be using later opterons, it is something I need to know if that is the case.
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