Saturday, July 22nd 2006
AMD's New Plans for Quad-Core and "4x4" Processors
We have a new microarchitecture under development and the first substantiation of that will be the quad-core to be launched in mid 2007,said Dirk Meyer, AMD's president and chief operating officer. AMD is working on a new architecture, which includes L3 cache, 32-bit instruction fetch, dual 128-bit SSE data flow, dual 128-bit loads per cycle and "true quad-core" meaning it will contain four separate cores on a die. In the meantime, AMD has plans to release a chip for the enthusiast market called the 4x4, which links two dual-core processors using AMD's fast hypertransport link to get quad-core like performance. AMD has said that product will be promoted by the holidays in contradiction to the Core 2 Duo processors.
8 Comments on AMD's New Plans for Quad-Core and "4x4" Processors
I am interested to see how this AMD chip does and compares to Kentsfield.
See my subject-line/title above:
This is a return to yesteryear in a way - much as the AMD K6-III @450mhz used to be on the old "Super-7" motherboard series (ASUS had them, others too probably). By Bearing an L3 cache onboard the mobo!
QUESTION: Is this L3 Cache on their CPU itself, or the mobo?
(The article doesn't say)
:)
* It was a good thing imo, & I had one - stable as hell (not the fastest thing going, but it was a good arrangement on the setup I had @ least).
APK
P.S.=> By the way, AMD has bought out ATI, see here:
www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~110899,00.html
From what I read a few days ago, it will be a merger, but we all know the deal on those (usually, one of the two "merging" companies is actually the takeover'ing one... controlling it, & that's AMD)... apk