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Man behind the curtain. http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2004/mft04092718.htm
I think Itanic is dying a rapid death. Once dual core Opterons surface that will be the final torpedo in the aft of the Itanic. Abandon SHIP!!!
M.
clip form EEtimes story
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Nathan Brookwood, a microprocessor analyst at Insight64 (Sarasota, Calif.), said leakage is the likely culprit behind delayed product introductions at Intel, which is locked in a close race with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to bring new process technology to the microprocessor market.
Intel is sampling a 90-nm version of its desktop Prescott P4, which heads for market this quarter, as well as the 90-nm Dothan version of the Banias mobile processor, which Brookwood said is being pushed out slightly to the second quarter. If AMD is able to execute on its promise to ramp 90-nm versions of its Opteron processor in the second quarter, Brookwood said, then "AMD will only be one quarter behind Intel, which is kind of amazing when you remember that AMD has been as much as three quarters behind in previous product introductions."
Brookwood also cited a trend that casts a shadow on the industry's continued ability to scale as fast as the ITRS predicts. When Intel, for example, moves from one technology node to the next, it has been able to cut power as it boosted frequency. The 180-nm Pentium running at 2 GHz drew 72 watts; the 130-nm Pentium at 2 GHz draw 52 W.
The shift to 90 nm has not resulted in a similar drop. The 130-nm P4 at 3 GHz draws 82 W, but when shifted to a 90-nm process, it draws more power, "in the high 80s or maybe even 90 W," Brookwood said. "Most of the problem is with static power consumption. These devices leak like crazy."
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http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20040123S0041
They'll license it and call it Intellitransport.
Nice to see you here Comb. Looks like interesting times ahead. Still Long and holding.
Az (M.)
If it's the date of packaging then the die is even earlier. I've not found a good picture of recent reviews. Help me out if you can.
M.
Interesting bit of information Date: 1/7/04 6:55 AM
Recommendations: 10
If you take a look at the chip pictures in these Athlon64 reviews,
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2004q1/athlon64-3400/index.x?pg=1
http://www.hothardware.com/reviews/images/a64_3400+/cpu_front.htm
you can see that both of these chips were made during week 37 of 2003 (second code in the middle line starting with "0337"), which would mean sometime around August. This means that, more than one month before the official launch of Athlon64, AMD already had parts clocking at 2.2Ghz, packaged for 754 pins. This is almost five months before launching the parts officially.
Most of the reviews out there mention that these are C0-stepping cores. Given the time passed, there should already be a tweaked C1 stepping somewhere, which should allow AMD to reach 2.4Ghz (3700+ rating) or even 2.6Ghz (3900/4000+ rating?) at 130nm in high-volume quantities. Should be enough to counter an eventual 3.6Ghz Prescott while 90nm cores arrive.
Marcos
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End quote from TMF.
Athlon FX faster than a 5+Ghz P4.
Tom's Hardware recently did this overclocking experiment with a Pentium4, reaching 5.25Ghz with liquid nitrogen.
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20031230/index.html
At first, it seemed very weird to me that there were no benchmarks at all in the article. With such an effort, you would assume at least some benchmarks were in order, wouldn't you? Well, it seems there were some benchmarks, but were silently removed because the FX-51 was still beating the Pentium4, even when clocked at 5.25Ghz! And when some in Tom's forums started complaining about that, those posts were also removed!
Take a look at this thread.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=91015&cid=7840687
If you think we all here are "wearing tin-foil hats" when talking about how Tom's Hardware and other websites are Intel-biased, well, it appears we're not the only ones out there.
Marcos
from TMF! http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=20080027
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=91015&cid=7840687
Too me this just means they have that much more headroom in the future. All they have to due is up the clock a bit and change the paste on the HS.
I think separate L1's, but I think a single L2 is more likely. Base on previous cLDT drawings.
Sgolds, Swankman is related to a company that deals in Servers etc, but he will not disclose allot. The post was to show Corporate interest in Opteron that he's never seen before from their corporate base.
M.
Chris, from your article mentioning Falcon http://www.falcon-nw.com/machv.asp click on high end example. They've had it for almost a month now.
Sgolds, I found you! http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=19611204
P.S it's Az from RB
AMDmb passes Intel! Date: 9/19/02 5:48 AM
After many long months of tireless crunchin', the frogs at amdmb.com have finally passed Intel in work units completed for Seti@Home.
Perhaps this is a sign of good things to come? :-E
http://www.setiatwork.com/cgi-bin/compare_teams.cgi?id=76035 (may take a second to load)
PS: By the time you read this, we may have also passed the great Vole of software itself (INQ speak), also known as Microsoft. :)
Source TMF