http://www.osnews.com/story/17063/AMD_Go_to_Barcelona_Over_Clovertown_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:59:42 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?205648 http://osnews.com/thread?205648 This can only push competition. I wonder how it would be if there was another big player in the processor market.... Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chocobanana) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205652 http://osnews.com/thread?205652 This just in... processors released in mid-2007 will be faster than processors released in late-2006!

- chrish Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chrish) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205655 http://osnews.com/thread?205655 Try to at least read the summary...

"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" Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CrimsonScythe) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205700 http://osnews.com/thread?205700 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_T2Edited 2007-01-25 15:18 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vermaden) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205710 http://osnews.com/thread?205710 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.

Edited for spellingEdited 2007-01-25 15:20 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TechGeek) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205716 http://osnews.com/thread?205716 AMD does make their own chipsets, and they are easy to find in server boards. Maybe with the ATi merger, we'll get it for desktops, too. Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cerbie) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205733 http://osnews.com/thread?205733 Just a correction,

the T2 has not been released yet, and it is supposed to be released on mid-2007. Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205738 http://osnews.com/thread?205738 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. Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ari-free) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205750 http://osnews.com/thread?205750 This really depends on the OS you run on that platform. Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (B. Janssen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205761 http://osnews.com/thread?205761 AMD's chipsets haven't been updated in three years, so virtually no new systems use them. Recent Opteron servers mostly use Broadcom/Serverworks or NVidia chipsets. Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wes Felter) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205810 http://osnews.com/thread?205810 As madrileño and madridista, i shall refuse myself to use such a heretic computer processor Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (thjayo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205961 http://osnews.com/thread?205961 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. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MaxxTotal) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?206034 http://osnews.com/thread?206034 I'm not sure why you say that.

The AMD M2, was released in the 1st or 2nd quarter of 2006. That is a new chipset.

Unless you are thinking of some thing else? Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wibbit) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?206134 http://osnews.com/thread?206134 "Now they are calling the shots and really pushing Intel.

Imagine if that was the case with OS's."

Actually it is... ever heard of MacOS X? Apple is constantly setting the standard for Microsoft to "keep up, by copying". Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Luposian) Comments