Inside AMD's Phenom Architecture 191
An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek has uncovered some documentation which provides some details amid today's hype for AMD's announcement of its upcoming Phenom quad-core (previously code-named Agena). AMD's 10h architecture will be used in both the desktop Phenom and the Barcelona (Opteron) quads. The architecture supports wider floating-point units, can fully retire three long instructions per cycle, and has virtual machine optimizations. While the design is solid, Intel will still be first to market with 45nm quads (the first AMD's will be 65nm). Do you think this architecture will help AMD regain the lead in its multicore battle with Intel?"
What?! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What?! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why the fuss over 45nm? (Score:5, Funny)
Core 2 Duo? (Score:4, Funny)
Colour me disappointed...
Re:What?! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What?! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hey Einstein (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Begging the question (Score:5, Funny)
Craptacular indeed (great new word) - the only thing craptacularer was the Celeron D they had out at the same time, which despite the name was not dual-core. Very amusing though, watching the 'tards with enough knowledge to be dangerous and who wanted a cheap PC,
"That one's a 'D', that's got 2 processors, that makes the internet faster"
Re:Hey Einstein (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sorry what? (Score:5, Funny)