AMD Reveals Plans to Move Beyond the Core Race

J. Dzhugashvili writes "The Tech Report has caught wind of AMD's plans for processors over the coming years. Intel may be counting on cramming 'tens to hundreds' of cores in future CPUs, but AMD thinks the core race is just a repeat of the megahertz race that took place a few years ago. Instead, AMD is counting on Accelerated Processing Units, chips that mix and match general-purpose CPU cores with dedicated application processors for graphics and other tasks. In the meantime, AMD is cooking up some new desktop and mobile processors that it hopes will give Intel a run for its money."

Re:Free Enterprise

[Moridineas]

Like if there were hypothetical competitive operating systems like Mac OSX, Linux (and the competition therein--Ubuntu, Fedora, etc), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, etc?

Free Reliant

[Anonymous Coward]

This is the type of innovation that usually comes when there is true competition in the market. Imagine how much better the OS market would be with similar competition.

This is the type of innovation that happens when you abandon a crew on Ceti Alpha V. Imagine how much better the OS market would be with similar KHHHAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!

Cue :

[CODiNE]

20 people asking "Why would anyone need this?"
50 people replying "I encode video"
45 people replying "Games"
10 replying "Babes of course"
1 karma whore incapable of making a decent top 10 list. :)

Re:Free Enterprise

[Magic5Ball]

That would make NetBSD the most competetive operating system ever!

Re:hyper transport

[Fred_A]

Intel will run CSI ? Cool Does that mean I'll finally get to know who rooted my friend's Windows boxes ?