“As some of you may know, we are ahead of schedule on our dual-core AMD Opteron processors. In fact, we’ve been shipping samples to customers since January… Therefore, in response to customer demand and because of our rapid qualification cycle we can confirm that we will indeed be launching our highly-anticipated AMD Opteron dual-core processor, the industry’s first x86 dual-core server processor, in New York next Thursday,”...
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20050414062927.html
They certainly aren't wasting any time releasing bigger and better things. Three new cores in two weeks has gotta be some sort of record.