AMD Releases Image of Phenom/Barcelona Die 129
MojoKid writes "A few weeks ago, AMD
released information on new branding for their desktop derivatives of the Barcelona core, now dubbed the Phenom FX, X4 and X2. If you're unfamiliar with Phenom, the processors will be based on AMD's K10 architecture. They've been tight lipped about specifics, but we know that it will feature a faster on-die memory controller, support 64-bit and 128-bit SSE operations, and they'll be outfitted with 2MB of on-chip L2 cache (512KB dedicated per core) in addition to 2MB of shared L3 cache. This week, instead of revealing some more of the juicy details regarding those enhancements, AMD just sent over a tasty photo of a Phenom die. At least it's something."
Re:wow a photo (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wow a photo (Score:4, Funny)
WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
Today's processor marketing explained to geek (Score:4, Funny)
Danger! Danger! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Today's processor marketing explained to geek (Score:2, Funny)
Don't even wanna think about the overhead for checking locks
Re:Direct links to JPEGs (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/Digi
Looks like the industry areas are quite big, wonder how the pollution in that city is.
No fires though, so that is a good thing.
Re:Hype it up (Score:3, Funny)
MMMM... Breakfast is computing (Score:3, Funny)
I think this will be a great option for people who get in early at the office. The original Pentium is able to cook an egg on top of the CPU. With 4 cores comes complete breakfast for one person: 2 eggs and 2 toast. I suppose the real key is a workgroup CPU with 10 cores would be useful each is used to cook in total 4 eggs, 4 toast and 2 cups of coffee (you do have to feed your co-worker
Nooo... Not a new hype word!!! (Score:3, Funny)
MEGATASKING.
Dude if you have over a 1024 tasks running at once you need to run some malware clean up software.
whip (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nooo... Not a new hype word!!! (Score:3, Funny)
My friend, you fail to appreciate the lunacy of the intricacies of marketing. That which you have described would, in fact, be merely kilotasking.
Re:Finally (Score:3, Funny)
Tell me about it. Those jackass chip hackers at Intel and AMD have been ignoring my advice for years in favor of their own cost/benefit analysis and engineering tradeoffs. If only they'd listen to us expects on Slashdot, there's no telling what they could accomplish!