Replies to post #68789 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipdesigner]

And cloning AMD64 and giving up on IPF...

[wbmw]

Re: Noo, more like replacing DRDRAM with SDRAM and moving from 30+ pipeline stages to something closer to 12...

AMD invented neither of these concepts. Intel was using SDRAM before they moved to RDRAM, and they had ~12 stage pipelines before they moved to 30+ stages. You can make it sound like they are following AMD, but AMD was the first one to follow Intel in both of these regards.