Intel Next-Gen CPU Has Memory Controller and GPU 307
Many readers wrote in with news of Intel's revelations yesterday about its upcoming Penryn and Nehalem cores. Information has been trickling out about Penryn, but the big news concerns Nehalem — the "tock" to Penryn's "tick." Nehalem will be a scalable architecture with some products having on-board memory controller, "on-package" GPU, and up to 16 threads per chip. From Ars Technica's coverage: "...Intel's Pat Gelsinger also made a number of high-level disclosures about the successor to Penryn, the 45nm Nehalem core. Unlike Penryn, which is a shrink/derivative of Core 2 Duo (Merom), Nehalem is architected from the ground up for 45nm. This is a major new design, and Gelsinger revealed some truly tantalizing details about it. Nehalem has its roots in the four-issue Core 2 Duo architecture, but the direction that it will take Intel is apparent in Gelsinger's insistence that, 'we view Nehalem as the first true dynamically scalable microarchitecture.' What Gelsinger means by this is that Nehalem is not only designed to take Intel up to eight cores on a single die, but those cores are meant to be mixed and matched with varied amounts of cache and different features in order to produce processors that are tailored to specific market segments." More details, including Intel's slideware, appear at PC Perspectives and HotHardware.
Re:Is AMD beaten? (Score:5, Funny)
No, seriously, though. I'm holding out on the hope that AMD's licensing of ZRAM will be able to keep them in the game.
Re:Is AMD beaten? (Score:5, Funny)
From your truly,
Marklar
Penryn and Nehalem? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So, basically... (Score:5, Funny)
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One of those new computers? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is AMD beaten? (Score:4, Funny)
You don't need an advanced GUI and expensive GPU to to do wobble effects. Every time the guy in the next cubicle degaussed his computer monitor, *EVERY* window on my desktop would wobble, even the taskbar. To avoid any damage to my monitor, I'd degauss my monitor
Re:/me drools. (Score:2, Funny)
When I was your age, we overclocked our floppy drives.
When I was your age, memory upgrades came with a soldering iron and a hand-written instruction sheet.
When I was your age, L1 cache was just a really long wire loop with high capacitance.
When I was your age, computers booted in about 2/10ths of a second.
When I was your age, Compuserve was the world's biggest dial-up network
When I was your age, we didn't let teenagers post crap on the internets, we beat them into discipline with a belt and sent them off to bible school!
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When I was your age, there was still money to be made in the computer industry.
Re:Is AMD beaten? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:OT: Re:Is AMD beaten? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What is this? (Score:2, Funny)
"AMD has released their next generation of slow crap. With Intel breathing down their neck, can they survive for even the next few hours with such horrible products?"
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"Intel may release a product in the next 2-7 years. Can AMD survive?"