Dont Hurt Me said:
I thought AMD was pretty fast? What chip do they have that competes with woodcrest? I forgot about AMD...
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I thought AMD was pretty fast? What chip do they have that competes with woodcrest? I forgot about AMD...
sounds to me like AMD is trying to boost their stockprice. Intels stock has been doing better since the Apple switch. Face it, intel is in a renaissance phase.
Jobs has a history of pitting manufacturers against each other (even inside the same AIM consortium, IBM vs. Motorola), maybe some of Ruiz's thoughts are based on that?
jhu said:
True, that. Intel is drastically scaling back their workforce and restructuring internally, as well. They, like Dell, are getting burned by the price wars they themselves started.
The Vista delays certainly don't help. Even though Intel's current product line has brought back their position of industry leadership, they're not quite revolutionary enough to spur a lot of upgrades. I feel like the entire computing industry is in the doldrums right now. Apple can't do it alone.
Mord said:
What makes you think that? Do you have the inside-scoop on how K8L will perform? No? That's what I thought
People said the same thing back before K7 was released. Then AMD released K7, and became the manufacturer of fastext x86-CPU's for next several years.
People should pay attention to AMD. I know that Intel is the current darling of the industry. and the Core-series is a very good CPU indeed. But AMD is not standing still. They are coming up with HyperTransport 3.0, which should make their platform even more flexible than it is today, while increasing performance. K8L has substantial improvements, and they are competetive even today in many areas. And what more important is their Torrenza-scheme. In Torrenza computer would have a spare HyperTransport-slot that could be used for co-processors that hook directly to the rest of the system. Now that they bought Ati, they could put an Ati-GPU in such a slot. And those GPU's have metric assload of floating-point performance. And Ati has hinted that they are working on tech that would let people use the GPU for generic floating-point calculations. So, in essence, such system would give HUGE benefits for floating-point stuff.
If that scheme succeeds, we might have a system that has a CPU(s), that are connected to a co-processor(s) that handle (for example) physics, graphics and also helps with floating-point calculations.
I think may be AMD (and possibly Apple) is floating a rumor out there to see how much support is there for an AMD-Apple computer.
I know I'm competely happy with my AMD desktop. It was cheaper to build and runs better, IMO, than Intel for games. I have to say that as a gamer, I'm really interested in what Torrenza could do.
I know I'm competely happy with my AMD desktop. It was cheaper to build and runs better, IMO, than Intel for games. I have to say that as a gamer, I'm really interested in what Torrenza could do.
All I know is that the new AMD Athlon 64 chips that are being worked on, the K8L, is gonna stomp on the Core 2s.
ReanimationLP said:
... And then the next chips that Intel is working on will stomp the K8Ls, then the next AMD chips will stomp those, then...
Thanks, but we understand how the rapidly progressive world of technology works...
It won't happen, but I can't help but think that the AMD/ATI merger, and that new technology (The graphics core on the actual CPU) they're working on might end up in some sort of set top box like the iTV, or whatever its called now.