The Processor Wars Part II: the Current Generation

Yesterday, we reported on an article about the demise of the Alpha. That article was the first part in a series about the future of processor design. Today, part II has been published: “In terms of the architecture itself, AMD’s Athlon 64 platform, at the stage it is at right now, does not offer that much of a performance advantage, and AMD should not be resting on its laurels. This is because on the desktop, interconnects as such play less of a role. It’s on servers and multi-processing systems that you can take advantage of scaling, and that’s where interconnects such as HyperTransport have a role. But when you talk about a single-chip desktop system, whether it’s one, two or four cores, the efficiency of the chipset still plays a very important role.”

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