AMD Phenom pictures

http://absolutevista1.blogspot.com [...] tures.html

You've seen it before. Now it's..digitalized! Maybe a sign of..benchmarks to come?

Oh joy, now there are photos! Where will i put them? Hm... Next to the authentic mugshot of Nessie? Ah! I know! The color scheme will fit the Alien autopsy footage way better.

That totally redefines the meaning of Paper Launch. That would be a new low, even for AMD. 8O

That totally redefines the meaning of Paper Launch. That would be a new low, even for AMD. 8O

I am teasing a little -- it is hard to get excited over a die shot, especially one that has been prepared for a marketing campaign. It would be much more useful if it were plugged into a socket and running a few electrons through it.

Ahh.. few electrons, eh?

and have some kind of neon sign that flashes... "Eat at Joes"

Hey that is what I got my E4300 to do, why do you think I OC'd it? It sure wasn't to browse the internet faster. No, I wanted it to power my dancing neon stripper sign that hangs in my window for all the apt complex to see. 8)

Is this image a true-colour photo, or is it one of those pictures that has colour enhancements to make the features stand out? I know wafers look beautiful, but I didn't expect to see such coherrent patterns.

That totally redefines the meaning of Paper Launch. That would be a new low, even for AMD. 8O

I am teasing a little -- it is hard to get excited over a die shot, especially one that has been prepared for a marketing campaign. It would be much more useful if it were plugged into a socket and running a few electrons through it.

Ahh.. few electrons, eh?

and have some kind of neon sign that flashes... "Eat at Joes"

Hey that is what I got my E4300 to do, why do you think I OC'd it? It sure wasn't to browse the internet faster. No, I wanted it to power my dancing neon stripper sign that hangs in my window for all the apt complex to see. 8)


Yet another in a long line of "quote victims." Such is the life of the poet. So be it.

BaronMatrix wrote:
I don't care. I just like watching you as it gets me more women. Edited

nice

You should make this your sig phrase...

You should make this your sig phrase...

If he doesn't, I will keep it alive.

And if you and RichPLS keep flaming people - You both might find yourselves banned - capice? Now, stop this baiting!

I don't even want to know what the DPI would have to be to print a CPU. We'd probably have to measure it in GDPI [Gigadots per inch]. 8O

Ty vern.

I don't even want to know what the DPI would have to be to print a CPU. We'd probably have to measure it in GDPI [Gigadots per inch]. 8O

Ty vern.

This is a good point ... gate lengths for the 65 nm node is reported at 35 nm for both AMD and Intel, put this into a different unit that makes a little more sense -- Angstroms, 350 angstroms. An atom on average is 1-2 Angs in diameter, so make it 2 Angs... the gate lenth, that is the distance from source to drain is about 175 atoms wide.

You would need atomic size dots, and it would amount to way more that gigadots.

You and your chemistry knowledge....

Fine... petadots work?

Well then 10angs = 1nm obviously. If we really wanted to get down and dirty, we would need the exact elements of the gate in order to determine how many atoms wide the gate is. That might be a fun way to pass time when I am bored in class. If it gets really bad we would put other distances in terms of angs or even different elements to illustrate the variation in the size of each elemental atom.

*runs to find his 10 key*

Ouch
but I do really hope AMD/ Phenom can deliver what they promised. I don't wanna live in a world with not much choice (albeit Intel's offering currently is a feast). Heck, I even pictured the future to have more than two (at least three) CPU companies

Maybe AMD should have sunk a bit more into R&D, Intel did ..

Are Oh Eff El = ROFL!!!

AMD spent 28.7% of their total 2006 revenue on R&D. Intel spent 16.6% of their total revenue on R&D - even so - outspending AMD 2.5 to 1.

For the long-term benefit of us all let's hope the AMD investment pays off . . .

AMD for FY06 spent 1.205 B on R&D

Intel for FY 06 spent 5.9 B on R&D

Intel is outspending AMD ~4.89:1

It isn't always about R&D as a % of revenue, that only gets you a fraction of the picture. Don't distort AMD's problems.

This looks like a CGI picture to me. Maybe it will be featured in the next big blockbuster animated film.

http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/12583
http://techreport.com/etc/2007q2/i [...] phenom.jpg

Behold.

AMD spent 28.7% of their total 2006 revenue on R&D. Intel spent 16.6% of their total revenue on R&D - even so - outspending AMD 2.5 to 1.

For the long-term benefit of us all let's hope the AMD investment pays off . . .

AMD for FY06 spent 1.205 B on R&D

Intel for FY 06 spent 5.9 B on R&D

Intel is outspending AMD ~4.89:1

It isn't always about R&D as a % of revenue, that only gets you a fraction of the picture. Don't distort AMD's problems.
R-e-a-d-i-n-g c-o-m-p-r-e-h-e-n-s-i-o-n i-s y-o-u-r f-r-i-e-n-d.

Apparently respect and math aren't your friends either.

AMD spent 21.33% (1205/5649) of FY06 Revenue on R&D, which includes ATI from Oct 25 to Dec 31. I am not sure where you get this 2.5:1 and 28.7% from. The 416M of "In process research and dev" can't be counted because it is a paper write off related to the ATI acquisition and is not classified as R&D.

I agree with opterondo, AMD screwed up with their R&D and got complacent. Gross margin increased more than 65% from FY 03 to FY 04 and yet R&D increased ~9.5%. FY 04 to 05 there was an inline increase of R&D with GM. FY 05 to 06 there was a ~17% increase in GM and a 5% increase in R&D.

This I agree with. Without AMD, the market could stagnate to an extent.Apparently, somewhere in there was some R&D on an arch. that they ended up scrapping. Ouch! :?

What if the chip were actually that big? 8O

MEGACOMPUTER

Beyond that, these pictures look too much like something someone in a mechanical drawing class could produce.

Well, at the moment, it proves that AMD has a functioning camera.

??????? That may be giving them a bit too much credit. It may only prove that they have a functioning graphics program and someone who knows how to use it.

http://www.dailytech.com/Kanter+AM [...] le7338.htm
Here's another really big one

Hahahaha, you gotta love "estimated" benchmarks. Especially when the program they're "estimating" is SPEC. A big slow clap for AMD.....