ThatguyWho fucking cares, its performance per $$$ that matters and it always has but in the few rare applications where all out performance matters.

btarunr"Der aaye par durust aaye" (Hindi proverb for "arrive late, but arrive strong")

FordGT90Concept8 cores at 3.9 GHz is pretty impressive. I doubt it will give SandyBridge-EX a challenge but it will likely be able to give a Bloomfield chip a run for its money.

Lazzer408I'd rather have one core at 31.2ghz. :)

YautjaLordHow about 8-cores running for example @ 10GHz each, Wafer? :)

Jokes aside, maybe it should/would happen someday. Is that forward thinking enough? :laugh:

YautjaLordGuess it's true, though the thought of multicore CPU with 10GHz for each core is awesome. :) 40 cores? Make it 100 by the 1st half of this century & then i'll go to space happily for all i care. :laugh: jk

Velvet Waferthis thread is severely deranging, in every possible way.
(like it has been for several BD threads i have seen in the last few months:shadedshu)...
i hope some mod thinks likewise, and does a cleanup operation... the soon the better.

Velvet Waferthis thread is severely deranging, in every possible way.
(like it has been for several BD threads i have seen in the last few months:shadedshu)...
i hope some mod thinks likewise, and does a cleanup operation... the soon the better.

Velvet WaferIBM and the GIT already clocked one of IBMs chips at 500GHz... no one knows tho, how efficient that 500GHz were tho:laugh:

With current and future technology, and even with evershrinking process sizes
(for not even 10 years, as somewhere after 10nm, they will run into MASSIVE problems with the tunneling effect, or as it more commonly known, electron leakage)
i doubt we will see an efficient 10 ghz 8 core processor, ever. ;)
As said, they plan on paralell, as high as i think about 40 cores per chip, as thats much easier than keeping that high clocks stable :D

ninjagordyI Remember talking to a tech that told me cpu's would never break 1ghz mark because the coolers would need to be the same size as a sofa...... :laugh::laugh::laugh:

hopefully dude...that quote will not make you feel stupid in 11 years time :-)

twilythKit Guru speculates that Intel is getting ready to drop prices on the k chips - presumably in response to leaks regarding the price of BD chips.

IDK. Seems weak on evidence but makes sense. Here is the article - www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/jules/intel-lines-up-2500k2600k-price-cuts-to-welcome-fx/

twilythI would guess that they have their spies like any big company and probably know a lot more about BD than we do. That's just a guess of course but given the history between the 2 companies, if they don't already have production samples they're not doing their job. :) :toast:

When is AMD (NYSE:AMD) going to finally ship Bulldozer/Interlagos? Our moles say soon, very soon. As we said at Computex, the server variants were pulled in to before the desktop versions, not delayed. Our sources say that the server variant of bulldozer will be shipping in less time than it takes light to travel 1802617757855.0835 furlongs, and the desktop version follows in mid-September, but NOT on the 19th. I guess that would be a little slip, but you can now count the days on two hands if your genetic makeup is a few standard deviations off of mainstream.S|A

twilythI don't know if this actually says anything since I'm not going to do the math (who uses standard deviation and the speed of light to describe a launch date - back away from the bong sir - nice and slow). It sounds like it might possibly be interesting depending on how fried you are.

Semi-accurate