Replies to post #33826 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Jules2]

Posted by: sgolds
In reply to: chipguy who wrote msg# 33822 Date:5/7/2004 1:46:13 PM
Post #of 33874

chipguy, What exactly does AMD innovate?

You can start with Long Mode in the AMD64 specification. It is not 64-bit that was innovated here but rather the design for x86 to abandon its segmented past and march into the future.

After that you may want to have a look at HyperTransport. Along with that, inexpensive glueless multiprocessing. Also affordable NUMA.

Oh, let's not forget the work AMD did as one of the pioneers of DDR, back when Intel was supporting some other little memory standard.

Innovations are generally not wholly new ideas but rather new ideas that bring new and unique improvements to what came before. Applying your yardstick to innovations then there have not been any since the transistor was invented (Bell Labs, 1958, as I recall).

But even that was just a solid-state implementation of a vacuum tube. I'm not sure what the predecessor of the vacuum tube was, but that probably wasn't an innovation, either.

Nope. No innovations under the sun!

I'm not sure what the predecessor of the vacuum tube was, but that probably wasn't an innovation, either.???

Gears, then relays, then vacuem tubs.

Regards

Jules