marlinsinger Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Seems quad core is just not good enough. Intel just made a research chip with 80 cores. http://www.thestreet.com/_iwon/newsanalysi...SIWON1111051500 What is next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Seems Intel are determined to upstage AMD everywhere - I did like the bit that said "...Company officials stressed that the 80-core chip was not a future product per se...". So - why make such a big fuss over it? Actually what they never did admit was that their 'quad' chip isn't true quad anyway (it's a pair of dual cores CPUs piggy-backed together rather than a dedicated quad core) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrussell Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Hmmm.. I wonder how fast it will render video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdanteek Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Seems Intel are determined to upstage AMD everywhere - I did like the bit that said "...Company officials stressed that the 80-core chip was not a future product per se...". So - why make such a big fuss over it? Actually what they never did admit was that their 'quad' chip isn't true quad anyway (it's a pair of dual cores CPUs piggy-backed together rather than a dedicated quad core) Toms Hardware CPU Review AMD's 4x4 Platform & Athlon 64 FX-70 - Brute Force Quad Cores The overall concept behind Quad FX is clear: "if we cannot provide a real quad core now, let's go and build something bigger with what we have." The result is three new processor products, all based on existing technology. If you purchase an Athlon 64 FX-70 ($599), FX-72 ($799) or FX-74 ($999), you will be buying two physical processors running at 2.6 GHz, 2.8 GHz or 3.0 GHz, respectively. Socket AM2 does not support more than a single processor socket, so AMD simply pulled the professional Socket 1207 off of the Opteron shelf to power Quad FX. So far, there is only one motherboard that will be available to support the new FX-70 series, but before we get to it, let's dig into Quad FX step by step. cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Actually everyone knew that already. AMD was working on a true quad core when Intel snuck in their piggy-back one and forced the issue. There are true quad cores in the pipeline (just nowhere near ready for release yet) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDWAGON Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 "Actually what they never did admit was that their 'quad' chip isn't true quad anyway (it's a pair of dual cores CPUs piggy-backed together rather than a dedicated quad core)" You're right on with that Daithi. Maybe Intel never admitted it, but anyone that reads any type of computer magazines or frequents computer hardware websites, certainly knew that. Sneaky way to get it out on the market, huh ? Frank... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrussell Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Will be interesting to see what kind of performance the AMD Quad core will get with the new HyperTransport 3.0, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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