Digit-Life have posted their look @ AMD's next generation CPU's the Opteron and Athlon 64 and it's called Facts & Assumptions about the Architecture of AMD Opteron and Athlon 64 ! Here's a snip. As you know, AMD keeps on promising to release new-generation processors based on the Hammer core - Athlon 64 and Opteron. The first is meant for the desktop market, while the other for the server sector. Now we will look into and analyze information we have about these processors. As you remember, the new AMD's processor have several key elements:

x86-64 architecture processor core integrated memory controller Hyper Transport based input/output bus Facts & Assumptions about the Architecture of AMD Opteron and Athlon 64