Replies to post #33822 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

Joey, HailMary, CombJelly, I know that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but this is getting quite extreme! It seems that most anything that AMD innovates is soon imitated by Intel.

ROFL. What exactly does AMD innovate? The EV6 bus came
from DEC. The HT links are basically PC-ized versions of the
EV7's interprocessor links, the integrated memory controller
is another rip-off from the EV7. And there are three dual core
server chips already shipping. The only original thing I can
think of that AMD designed was the 29k but they canned that
and later bought into MIPS.

[HailMary]

So they are speaking to the point that Engineering has been working on this for a while.

That is what is sounds like. This eweek report didn't mention which core these dual-core chips are based on. I think we know it is Dothan derived.

Notably missing from the report is iAMD64

They'll have a version of Prescott with it in June, and Nocona will also have it. The implementation is likely poor, but these will at least support x86-64. At this point it is just a checkbox item until we start seeing some standardized 64-bit benchmarks. That won't happen until we get Windows. Sounds like Bill is finally starting the push.

With the info that is out there so far, it looks to me like AMD will be solid across the board except for maybe mobile all the way through 2005, and then k9 comes into the picture. This is going to be an interesting few years. I'm glad I'm long AMD at the moment and not Intel.