AMD announces four-core Phenom chips

I dont know if this has been shown before.

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regards.

John.

 

That isn't really anything totally new. Intel have put two processing dies into one package with the C2D Quad Core, but in this new AMD package, it appears as if the dies from Normal Turions are popped in and wrapped into a package.

 

Isn't this just Barcelona? In any case, AMD is just putting all 4 cores together, instead of just mashing 2 dual core processors together and calling it a "quad core" like Intel does.

Intel is also releasing Penryn later this year, which is a 45nm processor. The Yorkfield quad-core processors that will be part of the Penryn family will carry native, true quad-core technology.

 

They also have a number of architectural changes, such as 128bit floating point support, larger paging support, etc. I think it'll be a good upgrade, and should at least help AMD in the server market, if not in the notebook market. The Core architecture isn't as scalable past 2/4 cores because it becomes bandwidth starved due to it's usage of a front-side bus architecture to communicate between cores, rather than on-die communications at a much higher speed (hypertransport)

 

Very true, infact AMD say that cores talking to each other on the same die(i.e hypertransport) will beat Intel because its chips use a front side bus external to the processor which is a major bottle neck.
There must be a reason why AMD chose the word “phenomenal” as the source of the new processor’s brand, perhaps they know something we don't .

So long Athlon, thank you for saving us from the "Pentium 4 Ghz race" and pushing the market forward.

 

Let's wait and see

 

You can only hope that the ability of the cores to talk to each other directly rather than going through the FSB like Intel's CPUs, will even the performance gap between the two rivals

 

I kind of don't care if it is a "native quad core" or not. Kudos to doing it AMD, but I just care about performance.

That being said, AMD really needs to beat up Core 2 a little bit...and soon.

 

It'll cost a fortune when it's first released

 

Well, whomever (AMD or Intel) has the top CPU they have the right to charge top-dollar for it. At least if AMD gets that crown back they'll maybe be able to make a lineup with pricing that can help them recover. Last I checked AMD was severely bleeding and about to be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.

 

Will Phenom beat Penryn to the market? By at least a month or two maybe?

The next big thing from AMD after Phenom is Fusion, right? That should be good