After years breathing AMD's dust, Intel beat its rival to the punch by releasing its quad-core Xeon 5300 'Clovertown' processor for servers in November. But AMD's 'Barcelona' quad-core chip, due to arrive midway through 2007, will be a significant notch faster than the Clovertown chips expected to be on the market at that time, said Randy Allen, AMD's corporate vice president for server and workstation products. "We expect across a wide variety of workloads for Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by 40 percent," Allen said.
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There is another one, Sun, but for server market:
2005 @ Sun UltraSPARC T1 1.2GHz:
8 CORES
32 THREADS
1 FPU
1 encryption engine
4 dual-channel DDR2/400MHz memory controllers
2006 @ Sun UltraSPARC T2 1.4GHz:
8 CORES
64 THREADS
8 FPU
8 encryption engines
4 dual-channel FBDIMM/667MHz memory controllers
references:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T2
Edited 2007-01-25 15:18
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yeah so funny. but there was a time when we didn't have all this competition from AMD and we'd be stuck with much slower processors. I remember when AMD was just an also-ran. Now they are calling the shots and really pushing Intel.
Imagine if that was the case with OS's.
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that is why MONOPOLY SUCKS. It makes them complacent and at the end, end users are short changed.
Can't imagine we have been living in Intel's slouch for years, insisting in continuing with their age-old proven-inferior FSB/netburst technology. Without competition from AMD, we'll still be in 32bit world, ever hotter CPU and useless speed.
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I admit I am an intel fan. But I do admit that AMD does make faster procs usually. However, without designing their own chipsets, they are always gonna be second place. I have NEVER had problems with an Intel chipset. Look at how many problems exist for certain Via and Nvidia chipsets. Its a whole package. Fast chips dont mean squat if I cant keep my machine from crashing.
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