AMD - Same Troubles, New Approach
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The year that is about to end has brought nothing but trouble to the chip manufacturer. AMD faced an alarming drop in the market share, combined with an enormous financial loss that pushed the company
on the edge of the precipice.
All the company's troubles have the same origin: two failed products that were supposed to bring significant income. Neither the desktop oriented Phenoms, nor the enterprise Barcelona chips stayed on the market due to a design flaw. The repeated delays in getting the quad-core Opteron processors on the market weakened customers' confidence in the company.
AMD must work hard over the next six months to achieve some important goals in the company roadmap. It is vital for the chip manufacturer to start volume shipments of Barcelona processors, a move that would bring both revenue and market share in the enterprise sector.
Switching to 45-nanometer manufacturing process will be the next logical step, and AMD has already scheduled Shanghai, the second version of the Quad-Core Opteron chip, for mass-availability in the second quarter of 2008.
The new technology will allow AMD to triple the size of the L3 cache pool, from 2MB (Barcelona) to 6MB. The L3 cache is a memory pool shared between the processor's four cores. When the data is moved out of the Level 2 cache, it is deposited into the L3 pool for faster access. Moreover, both Barcelona and Shanghai chips feature an on-chip memory controller to boost the processor's performance.
According to the executive vice president of AMD's Computing Products Group, Mario Rivas, the first samples of Shanghai are about to leave the Dresden factory in January next year, and any delay would prevent the chips from entering mass-manufacturing until late 2008 or early 2009.
The desktop and mobile computing sectors also require AMD's extended attention. The first quarter of 2008 will bring the Perseus platform, comprised of a quad-core processor and an RS780 or SB700 chipset for the corporate market. Puma, the AMD mobile platform, is slated for the second quarter of the next year. The new platform is based on a new processor, called Griffin, and is the company's response to Intel's Santa Rosa.
Additional details about the company's roadmap will emerge after the Consumer Electronics Show to be held in Las Vegas in January next year.
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Comments(10)
"the new platform is based on a new processor, called griffin, and is the company's
response to intel's santa rosa."
wtf, santa rosa is released in early 2007.
i wouldn't trade my dual opterons with 4 gigs of ram for anything else i've see.
as a system builder i stopped recommending intel processors years ago. so mhat if amd
have had a few teething problems with their quadcores they will eventually get
it
right and when they do they will they will prove more stable and less prone to heat
problems than intel's architecture.
i for one are prepared to wait a little longer
knowing i will have a processor i can rely on when i eventually install an amd quadcore.
i have been building systems since 1979 and cottoned onto amd's early in their
life and have used them ever since in preference to intel processors as i very rarely have
problems with systems i have built on amd processors unlike the number of problems i have
encountered on intel based systems,
i have 2 enterprise servers all based on
opteron dual cores and 4 workstations with amd dualcore or 64bit processors and i rarely
if ever have to touch them accept for sofware related problems,
give me amd's
any day.
i use amd cause its cheap and fast as compared to same price of intel.
intel
is a load of bollocks...too fuxking expensive man
you have to out of your goddamn mind for saying shit like that. a 240€ q6600 will beat
the shit out of anything amd has ever put on the market.
you can check the numbers
anywhere.
you must not be a very good system builder if you've been using amd over
intel since 1979, or do you build olpc for a living?
here is my 2 cents. ive built systems to and have used amd and intel both. some intel
processors are better, and some are not. why pay so much damn more for a cpu when amd is
always right on intel's ass. and they work just as good if not better in some aspects.
i tried amd athlon 64 x2 and just gained a traumatic experience - my system shut down and
i found out that the processor is very toasted despite the low temperature of the
environment...
well iv been using amd for the first time since leaving intel and have had no problems or
issues using the athlon 64 x2 dual core 3800+!
amd as as good as intel but with
the added bonus of costing less and having a much larger fan base which helps with
compatibility.
paul
i remember along time ago when amd almost went bankrupt. the same scenario played out
with apple and ms. somehow they manged to get funding and survive. the last thing intel
would want, would be to have amd fade away. can you say monopoly. intel would surely be
dirt poor if the us trade commission and the eu decided to intervene. i bet paul otellini
would bankroll amd himself just to keep them afloat and keep the feds / eu off his back.
continue the illusion of a race between to enemies and free market competition and both
of the companies are winners as well as the public.
i have used amd for many years but last year i got an intel and was very happy as it
seemed to run more faster and also with less problems. but would always use amd again.
hope they keep strong!!! :d
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Santa rosa?
By core2 on 29.12.2007 - 05:12