Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[j3pflynn]

And a fun note for one of us here!
See if you can figure out who...

"I think that it is actually quite funny to hear all of these analysts
talk about how Intel will rule the roost after Conroe and the gang come
to market. I just shake my head and think, "Yes, Conroe is going to be
a big stup up from Pentium M and a huge step up from Pentium 4, but many
many changes need to take place after the launch to prepare the industry
and partners for the new chips."
Especially on the server and notebook side, where product cycles are a
lot longer than that of the desktop (haha, of course I am preaching to
the choir on this one). Also, looking at a low level design approach,
yes it will be a 4 issue core... but that does not exactly make it 25%
faster off the bat than the Athlon 64 which is a three issue micro-op
core. As Paul Demone once said, "Da, three issue core is strong like
tractor!" There are many more things about an overall processor core
that will make or break it. I think it will be a great performer, but
there are still some bad things about it... like the FSB. The inability
to do synchrounous read/writes to main memory, as well as relying on a
memory controller that runs at chipset speed vs. processor speed is
another nasty bit of engineering."