Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Tim Fowler]

I'm more interested in this part

"An interesting tidbit on the side is that Intel's P4 architecture, using all kinds of optimizations, including hardware-based dynamic speculative precomputing for branch-prediction and prefetching will be hurt less than AMD by the high latencies of DDR II. To spin this a bit further, the main advantage of AMD's Hammer architecture is the integration of the memory controller onto the CPU with the goal of reducing chipset-related (control and address decode) latencies. It only requires second grade math skills to see that shaving off one cycle out of nine (1/9) on the controller level for an initial access will yield less performance gain than reducing latencies by one cycle out of five (1/5) ."

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Tim