Let's talk Architectures

by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/24/2005 11:30 AM EST
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  • knitecrow - Monday, August 29, 2005 - link

    AMD’s success is in large part due because of Intel’s miscalculations which, in turn, are a result of Intel letting their marketing department dictate processor design. Hence, the insane netburst architecture built around the "gigahertz" myth to fool consumers. Intel has never lacked good engineers or good ideas. Internal politics seem to get in the way. I remember Bob Colwell talking about moving north bridge stuff into the cpu die.... and the chipset guys where like "what you trying to do, I’ll loose my job."


    Now that Intel is focused again, AMD is going to face serious problems. The real question is... what has AMD been working for the past 3 years? All I have seen so far is minor tweaks of the original clawhammer.

    I seriously hope AMD has been working some new technology or else I fear this will be a tale of the grasshopper and the ant.
  • creathir - Thursday, August 25, 2005 - link

    What is with the Texas cities??
    And the VIIV logo looks like the SA Bus System (VIA) logo.
    http://www.viainfo.net/Ride/Default.aspx">http://www.viainfo.net/Ride/Default.aspx

    Strange.
    - Creathir
  • GTaudiophile - Thursday, August 25, 2005 - link

    Anand: Could you look into this and write a brief article?

    http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid...">http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid...
  • Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, August 25, 2005 - link

    I'll play with it when I get back to CT this weekend.

    Take care,
    Anand
  • HardwareD00d - Friday, August 26, 2005 - link

    that would be great! I'm having the same problems with game speedups and studdering on my X2-4800+. GTA San Andreas and Postal2 get really screwy after a few minutes of gameplay and rebooting is the only thing that fixes it.
  • kleinwl - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link

    It's good to hear that Intel is making real progress in updating there chips. As an (Forced=Dell) Corporate User, I've been disappointed by the poor performance per dollar of the Intel system. Our corporate police spend the least amount of money on systems (including CAD/CFD) so a cost-performance competitive Intel chip will make things much easier buying needed equipment. As it is we are running single Xeon Dell workstations, but paying the same cost as if we were getting a dual-core Optieron. It's very sad.

    Now if we can only get the IT police to upgrade from Windows 2000 to XP-64, we could make some progress feeding our ram intensive programs.
  • GhandiInstinct - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link

    "It's good to hear that Intel is making real progress in updating there chips"

    Well, son, it's been a bit more than five years so I believe we should be expecting a bit more than just "progress" on that front. I mean this is the next generation, or so they're calling it. I was expecting a revolution, a NiNtenDo Revolution. = )
  • ceefka - Friday, September 2, 2005 - link

    It's good that Intel is making steps in the right direction, but we'll have to see if they will come back with a vengeance. Perhaps after the introduction of Intel's new generation will 4-way Opterons finally meet some real competition. Scalability wasn't very high on those Xeons.

    Even so,
    1. AMD will still have reasonable headroom to raise the frequencies once they are on 65nm.
    2. They will also introduce 4-core architecture with perhaps even an upgraded memory controller, the latter being my wild guess.
    3. HTT is said to be highly scalable, so I expect that to hit 2GHz with X4.
    4. New chipsets could still unleash power from even current AMD64 systems. It's not only the CPU that determines the strength of a system.
    5. How many (home) apps are going to take full advantage of 4 core architecture in order to express this technical progress.
  • jeffrey - Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - link

    First post.

    What are the chances of RMBS used in desktop graphics cards?

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