Replies to post #9872 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Elmer Phud]

Joe - We can already see it in Itanium, which is a processor in trouble. Intel had to put in 6MB of cache to get decent performance out of it.

Decent performance? It leads the world in everything.

And don't forget it's intended for a shared bus SMP system.

[chipguy]

We can already see it in Itanium, which is a processor in trouble. Intel had to put in 6MB of cache to get decent performance out of it.

And AMD put SOI technology, 9 levels of interconnect, and an
integrated memory controller into Opteron and it still comes
out well behind I2 in performance. If I2 is in trouble techn-
ologically then Opteron is on life support and fading fast.