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AMD's current state of affair (AnandTech)

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May 11, 2007 1:00:36 PM

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May 11, 2007 1:59:10 PM

Yeah, no benches, but a fascinating look at AMD's take on the future of CPUs. I am not Jack, but I was able to understand the article and what they were saying about the effectiveness of different chip structures and heterogenous processing is interesting to say the least. A good read.
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May 11, 2007 2:57:06 PM

What I found most interesting was actually the past where the sucessor to K8 which would have been the competitor to Core2 was dropped. Which indicates that Barecelona was supposed to go head to head with Penryn from the start.
May 11, 2007 3:06:34 PM

The way they described the architechture makes it sound like it was a good thing they passed on that one. :lol: 

But yes I agree it looks like barcy was always intended to butt heads with penryn. I wish I could speculate further, I'll just say that I hope they get the clock speeds up in future revisions.

Encoding hd in real time is quite a feat, I wish they would tell us what clock speed they used to accomplish that. :roll:

Oh well, all will be known soon enough.
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May 11, 2007 3:10:07 PM

In the past week The News Hour had a tech report. The Cal Tech engineer said, "Look at this PROCESS!". The Intel dude said, "Look. We can put 80 CORES on a cpu the size of your fingernail!" The AMD guy said, "We ask the customers what they want and we build it for them."

I'd like a little more AMD from Intel and a little more Intel from AMD - and I think the balance will return, more or less, this year.

I guess my point is this - Don't let technology be a solution in search of a problem.
May 11, 2007 3:33:27 PM

Well, it seemed to me that software threading simply wasn't where AMD expected it to be. Perhaps in the future the ideas they came up with may find there way back into AMD's designs.
May 11, 2007 3:42:32 PM

Yeah it seems like a great idea that software developers never really took advantage of. Heck it's hard even today to find software that takes full advantage of a quad core. :?
May 11, 2007 7:12:56 PM

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Well, it seemed to me that software threading simply wasn't where AMD expected it to be. Perhaps in the future the ideas they came up with may find there way back into AMD's designs.


Quite right perhaps after a few years we will see it again like the Pentium_M brought us Core2.
May 11, 2007 10:50:01 PM

The circle is complete. With the launch of R600, DAAMIT is now Intel, and 'talking in secluding locations' about plans for future products isnt going to cut it. They'll have a few die hard supporters who will always buy whatever BS the marketing dept is selling, but AMD now has to learn the same lesson Intel did....benchmarks talk, bullshit walks. At this point, theres been a fair amount of unofficial numbers falling out of the mouths of AMD brass-underlings. If K10 dosent live up to those numbers...woe be AMD.


Honestly, after reading that, when coupled with everything else AMD has said and done the past 9 months, it really sounds like little more than a few facts mixed in with a whole lot of PR prospin. All the rosy "were gonna do this, and were gonna do that, and these are really the reason weve been doing the other thing" sounds like som much arse covering. They need to get the product out the door. BSing about it is just BSing
May 13, 2007 8:30:36 AM

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No benches because Anand didn't want to mess with this guy:

Only if I was Anand, that elephant will have to mess with me. And I am sure that he is unable to prevent me to see the K10 bench scores or even hijack the atx case with dual AgenaFX.
May 13, 2007 10:56:02 AM

Greetings. We are visitors to Planet AMD. Take us to your benchys. :lol: 

No bench = No product. All hot air from Hector's chili beans dinner.
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May 14, 2007 10:56:05 PM

That guy actually isn't just a heavy that is supposed to keep people from running unauthorized benches on the computer. He's actually the product manager for the FX line- that was from an Information Week article.

Could have fooled me, especially with the smirk/look on his face telling Anand that "if you try any goofy **** around here, you WILL get hurt."
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May 15, 2007 12:00:02 PM

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What, AMD now has bouncers??? :lol: 


Look at the pic (link to a pic) I posted above from Anandtech's story on the Agena FX. Sure looks like a bouncer to me...
May 15, 2007 12:11:10 PM

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Sure looks like a bouncer to me...

It looks like an elephant to me. :lol: 
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May 15, 2007 12:51:40 PM

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Sure looks like a bouncer to me...

It looks like an elephant to me. :lol:  I'm thinkin' . . . . . Goombah

Anand Sleeps with the Fishes
May 15, 2007 1:14:02 PM

Fresh from a Sopranos casting call... :lol: 
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