Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[jhalada]

combjelly,

re: Foxtron

I wonder if that's the only problem. It seems that the CMT is a complex task to undertake as well, if not more. It would have been a major coup for Intel to pull it off.

I think CMT would have been extra valuable for Itanium, because Itanium lacks OoOE. With CMT, at least you could have 2 threads waiting for a memory access due to cache miss in 2 different threads. Otherwise, ability to do something for Itanium core is restricted.

As far as clock changing technology, IMO, this is one area where AMD is ahead. Even Pentium-M is not so hot when some mixed activity is thrown at it, requiring quick clock speed changes. Pentium-M does well on both extremes (idle and full load), but in between is when Turion closes the gap. And Pentium-M is Intel's best effort in Demand Based Switching. It goes downhill from there (Netburst, Itanium).

Joe