Replies to post #61984 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[kpf]

wmbw

Yeah. Not much difference between our assessments, give or take couple of points, couple of months.

Btw, if Mike's on spot with his headline in http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26086.
Intel will bring Woodcrest lithography to High Performance Pentium-Ms as well. It's somewhat plausible, although I don't remember Intel indicating it up to now. But well, if so, it would probably just be the top-end product for benchmarking reasons.

K.

[kpf]

wbmw

But I can't see AMD getting their SPEC scores up to the level of the recent digit-life estimate

Dunno which CPU SUN used for submission of Specfp(peak, I assume) of 2344. http://epscontest.com/presentations/05q3_sun.htm?slide=26&a, Slide 29.

However, from there to Specpf(base) 2500 before 3GHz Conroe appears would not look like a stretch to me. With tailwind from compilers one speedstep could be even enough, two will definitely do the job. :) The integer part is harder to make, though. It would take at least two steps (with a little help from compilers), and maybe three.

K.