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TechnologyCoordinator wrote :

Long story short:

Intel has done some shady business practicies, but AMD is ultimately responsible for its rise (Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2) and its demise (K10). AMD shot itself in the foot.



AMD shot themself in both feet with one 'B2' bullet but for the most part I think it was intentionally self-inflicted.

For lack of cash the market is effectively AMD R&D. AMD progress is slower, smaller and more incremental. K10 was an initial 'proof of concept' at 65nm. Work out a few kinks, slap on a few wrinkles, shrink it, refine the process and keep focus 2 iterations in the future.

The ugliness of 65nm B2 will bring forth 45nm Fusion hopefully in 2Q-09.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

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On the 45nm availability, I stand corrected as for the "rest" if you care to be more specific, I will be more than happy to respond. Otherwise it comes off as so much polymuckracking



According to an Intel engineer posting on another website whose name I shouldn't mention here on Toms :), he has "seen reports" that AMD currently has "abysmal yields" at 45 nm - in the range of 25 - 30%. Probably just some FUD but if true, then it may be a fairly long time before Shanghai's are widely available. But AMD will go with their planned launch anyway to keep the investors from revolting. Guess we'll find out in a few days/weeks/months how easily people can buy them.

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^If they botch another launch the investors will have Hectors hide for lunch. Hmm.... lets see if we can screw the launch up and they can get a better chairman of the board.....

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NMDante wrote :

All it would be, is Barrack Obama showing the foolish choices that Turpit made (for this argument).
It isn't what anyone says that makes it true, it's what a person or company has done, to earn this scrutiny, that makes them "look bad".

You even said it - "exposed some questionable choices you've made in the past, no ALL your poor choices". So, who is to blame for those choices? Barrack for pointing them out? Or Turpit for making them? Only the person or company, that makes those choices or decisions, is the only one responsible for "looking bad".


Quite being argumentitive. I never said anyone could make AMD or Intel anything other than what theyre really are. Youd have to eliminate alot of history and alot of the english language to actually believe in what youre hyping/arguing. Theres litigious terms: slander. In your argument, it wouldnt matter, and slander couldnt exist. In history, Hitler painted certain peoples as he wanted to, and bad things happened to them because of public opinion, which was spurred by Hitlers comments. Words like :slander, bad mouthing , undermining, etc would all have no meaning by your terms.

Now, as it seems the current partners of AMD have more money, more influence than Intel, making statements such as

"And how did this happen? Anything to do with AMD failing to deliver on its claims? Or buying ATI? Or shorting the channel to supply the OEMs, who have been slowly turning away from AMD. Or disenfranching customers when they cut the 939s life early? I can go on...

Or was it just 'evil' Intel? "
And :

" The plant in Saratoga hasnt been built yet (and still not a 'done' deal) and AMDs 45nm isnt in retail yet. Additionally, producing chips is one thing. Producing chips that function to design spec is another, and AMD has demonstrated problems with this at 65nm, so there is no reason to beilieve they will not encounter difficulties at 45nm."

These statements currently have no more meaning than AMDs next cpu. And, as Ive said, puts them in a bad light, as the partners of AMD has more money than Intel, has more pull than Intel, and are very committed in this endeavor.

Its actually more to question Intels ability to build another fab, as Ive pointed out, AMDs partners have much more resources than Intel does, and to make such a statement doubting AMD and its partners is just pure slander, as it would be if said about Intel. Remember, everything people say reflects on them as well, and if someone came here and said these things about Intel, well we all know how thatd play out.

Again, Im not saying AMD will shake the world with their new partners, nor am I saying AMD will even compete at the top of cpus, but what I am saying is, that alot of what was thought before, and alot of what weve seen in the past is no longer relevant because of this new situation with AMD and its new partners.

Having said all that, I still say, show us AMD, dont tell us

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jaydeejohn wrote :

Quite being argumentitive. I never said anyone could make AMD or Intel anything other than what theyre really are. Youd have to eliminate alot of history and alot of the english language to actually believe in what youre hyping/arguing. Theres litigious terms: slander. In your argument, it wouldnt matter, and slander couldnt exist. In history, Hitler painted certain peoples as he wanted to, and bad things happened to them because of public opinion, which was spurred by Hitlers comments. Words like :slander, bad mouthing , undermining, etc would all have no meaning by your terms.

Now, as it seems the current partners of AMD have more money, more influence than Intel, making statements such as

"And how did this happen? Anything to do with AMD failing to deliver on its claims? Or buying ATI? Or shorting the channel to supply the OEMs, who have been slowly turning away from AMD. Or disenfranching customers when they cut the 939s life early? I can go on...

Or was it just 'evil' Intel? "
And :

" The plant in Saratoga hasnt been built yet (and still not a 'done' deal) and AMDs 45nm isnt in retail yet. Additionally, producing chips is one thing. Producing chips that function to design spec is another, and AMD has demonstrated problems with this at 65nm, so there is no reason to beilieve they will not encounter difficulties at 45nm."

These statements currently have no more meaning than AMDs next cpu. And, as Ive said, puts them in a bad light, as the partners of AMD has more money than Intel, has more pull than Intel, and are very committed in this endeavor.

Its actually more to question Intels ability to build another fab, as Ive pointed out, AMDs partners have much more resources than Intel does, and to make such a statement doubting AMD and its partners is just pure slander, as it would be if said about Intel. Remember, everything people say reflects on them as well, and if someone came here and said these things about Intel, well we all know how thatd play out.

Again, Im not saying AMD will shake the world with their new partners, nor am I saying AMD will even compete at the top of cpus, but what I am saying is, that alot of what was thought before, and alot of what weve seen in the past is no longer relevant because of this new situation with AMD and its new partners.

Having said all that, I still say, show us AMD, dont tell us



Who's being argumentative? I simply answered your question, and you go on a rant?
Slander? No. It would be considered libel, but only if it wasn't true. Tell us, jaydeejohn....where is the libel again?

Is there a plant in Saratoga? True or untrue? Do you know how long it takes to build a fab? I do.
Is there an AMD 45nm for sale at retail outlets? Yes or no?
Did AMD have issues transitioning from 90nm to 65nm? Yes or no?

You seem to believe that just because AMD has an injection of cash from an investor, that it's history should be forgotten. Nope. Doesn't work that way. Tell us, is AMD making these CPUs or the investors? If it's still AMD making them, then wouldn't AMD's recent history show how reliable or unreliable it would be in producing and making those same CPUs available?

So, how exactly does having an investor make a company better again? Will those same investors just go buy CPUs to sell them under the AMD brand? Are they going to buy a better process? Or better silicon?

You can cry all day long about how people are "bashing" or now, slandering, AMD and "its partners". And quit the whole "if people said that about Intel, we'd know how that would play out" bullsh*t.

You want to make another "AMD lovefest" thread, go ahead. The simple fact is, nothing listed or asked here is libel (or slander). Speculating about possible manufacturing issues at the 45nm node, is not libel, either. It's speculating.

Oh, and the Hitler thing didn't work. Hitler said racist and antisemitic things about a group of people. And Hitler did not "painted certain peoples as he wanted to", he was using the same racist, antisemitic stereotype that was around before he came into power. So, you're Hitler reference doesn't hold any water.

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Will Intel really build westmere? They make alot of promises, and have come thru on most, but again, Intel was the one saying you dont need a IMC? Cmon, dont act like this wasnt from a certain POV. Hitler had his, and it seemed to convince alot of people as well. I know some peope dont like hearing AMDs current position may be better than it ever was, but thats life.
So, Im to speculate the westmere will never happen and sandy bridge is but a dream, as no one is buying them now, and Intel and their IMC statements, guess you cant trust them...ooops, cant say that, cause thatd make my point.
So, we cant lose trust from anothers (not the trusted ones) comments? Words like influence and slander have no ,meaning? And again, because we havnt seen sandy bridge, its very disputable? Give it a rest, bashing ooops there we go again, is bashing. Making statements like 45nm cpus from AMD dont exist is like the blind man doubting the sky, cause hes never seen it.

Who said anything about a AMD lovefest? Does AMDs partners BOTHER you? Because they have more money, and are a threat to making AMD competitive? Isnt that whats really bothering you here? I say show me AMD, and you call it a love fest? Maybe Intel SHOULD be worried

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jaydeejohn wrote :

Will Intel really build mestmere? They make alot of promises, and have come thru on most, but again, Intel was the one saying you dont need a IMC? Cmon, dont act like this wasnt from a certain POV. Hitler had his, and it seemed to convince alot of people as well. I know some peope dont like hearing AMDs current position may be better than it ever was, but thats life.
So, Im to speculate the westmere will never happen and sandy bridge is but a dream, as no one is buying them now, and Intel and their IMC statements, guess you cant trust them...ooops, cant say that, cause thatd make my point.
So, we cant lose trust from anothers (not the trusted ones) comments? Words like influence and slander have no ,meaning? And again, because we havnt seen sandy bridge, its very disputable? Give it a rest, bashing ooops there we go again, is bashing. Making statements like 45nm cpus from AMD dont exist is like the blind man doubting the sky, cause hes never seen it.

Who said anything about a AMD lovefest? Does AMDs partners BOTHER you? Because they have more money, and are a threat to making AMD competitive? Isnt that whats really bothering you here? I say show me AMD, and you call it a love fest? Maybe Intel SHOULD be worried



You can keep playing the same record over and over. Doesn't change the fact that AMD is still being ran by the same people who brought it to where it is NOW.

As for Intel's Sandy Bridge and Westmere...yes, no one knows for sure if they will ever be released, but they have already shown an 80 Core Teraflop prototype CPU working. Not a wafer, but chip. I believe that would give them a better chance of introducing Westmere and Sandy Bridge, than not. Also, Intel has not missed a tick or tock, since they started that campaign, that I know of.

Have you seen an AMD 45nm CPU? Anywhere? Trade show? Cebit? Computex? Why not? So, you can say what you want about Deneb and Shanghai. The simple fact is, no one, outside of AMD or it's testers, have seen heads or tails of AMD's 45nm CPU. Until AMD does show or provide a 45nm, then they still DON'T have a 45nm CPU.

Again, what does Abu Dhabi's money have to do with anything competitive? They will take over the manufacturing side, but guess what...SAME TOOLS, SAME PROCESS. Oh, more R&D money? At what R&D center? Most R&D is done in fabs. Guess what AMD won't have access to, very easily? Hmmm. I'm not concerned about Abu Dhabi's money, since they already dropped $700M a year ago, and it did...nothing. Do you believe that Abu Dhabi will just have coffers of money for AMD to squander, expecting nothing in return? I think those Abu Dhabi guys are much smarter than that.

Again, your Hitler reference is not needed and does not prove anything. Hitler and his group did what they did, on their own. Are you claiming that every German person was 100% behind Nazism and knew what Hitler was doing? He did what he did, only because he used fear and intimidation, to prevent people from challenging or questioning him. Point of view is one thing, being a racist and bigot is another.

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What I am saying is, when you make certain statements, people form an opinion of the person thing of whats being talked about, and the person saying it. Like you saying Im going on a love fest for AMD. What isnt true that Ive said? AMD is as good as their next cpu. AMDs partners have more monies and influence than Intel. Adding AMDs partners helps AMD to be more competitive, and may allow them to take the crown again someday. With AMDs partners involved in the Saratoga fab, it will be built, and to question that isnt the best of motives towards AMD, not good thought. Influence is influence, whether its good or bad (as in Hitlers beliefs) but just being bad doesnt make it non capable nor non existing.

As again for the love fest, I just posted in another thread that someone at AMD said that therell be a 25% performance increase, and theyd better deliver just that. Im holding AMD to thier word(s), and not cutting them any slack, it only ever seems to be a problem when I hold those same ideals towards Intel.

Intel has just come out with a new arch, and its very costly. This isnt the time for major sales on a platform thatll cost alot of money. Big mistake for Intel here, or bad timing? If I went around and started saying Intels foolish because they released this more expensive product, and whod need it currently, and Intel just wants our money, whatd you gleam from that? I know its just poor timing, but even so, at this point in time, it carries more weight only bevcause of the economic climate, but it still wouldnt be right bashing Intel for doing what they did, now would it? Needless, harmful and being the blind man arent going to mean anything either, as far as AMD or Intel goes, so like I said, quit trying to be argumentative, and wait and see IF AMD delivers, and IF AMDs partners make AMD a competitive force within the cpu market again. Like I said, show me AMD

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jaydeejohn wrote :

Turpit, if Barrack Obama went on TV and said you were a fool, didnt know anything, exposed some questionable choices youve made in the past, no ALL of your poor choices, then according to you, he wouldnt be making you look bad, because only YOU can do that.

Again, my point is this, its no longer business as usual coming from AMD. Times have changed, new monies, new chances are here for them. Thats all Im saying. Everyone agrees the major difference between Intel and AMD has been money. Over time that money has made Intel a better process, more time for better products etc. Thing is, this may no longer be true, or not at the same scale its EVER been, and thats my point. Denying this is saying nothing, saying showme, thats what should be said. Do you know the potential of AMD with its new partners? If so, let us in on it, cause wed alll like to hear it now, instead of wait and see, like alot of us . I say show me AMD, nothing more, nothing less




LMAO.

Jay.....I am NOT a politician. In my 'world', I and my 'co workers' have to admit each and every one of our mistakes, and in our 'world', if Barak Obama went on TV and said any one of us was "a fool, didnt know anything, exposed some questionable choices youve made in the past, no ALL of your poor choices, then according to you, he wouldnt be making you look bad, because only YOU can do that" before any of us 'fessed up", then you could add "trying to hide our failures" to that list of failures.


Now, based on your reasoning, anyone stating that the Ford Pinto was prone to explosions in the event of a rear end collision would "just be trying to make Ford look bad", and Consumer reports or CNN advising of dangerous lead paint on chinese manufactured childrens toys would "just be trying to make China look bad". And as long as you're going to accuse me of 'just trying to make XXX look bad', you can throw Intel in to the mix as I have not now nor have ever had any quams telling anyone what a miserable chunk of fail netbust was.


So, if stating facts equates to "just trying to make some one look bad" in your book....so be it. Thats your problem, not mine and its no skin off my behind.

On the potential of AMD and their "new partner".

After 2 years of failure and falsery, what makes you think selling off the controling interest in their manufacturing capability is going to change anything? Phenom was not late because of manufacturing. Phenom did not experiance TLB because of manufacturing. Phenom did not phail because of lack of money. Those were design problems and management descisions.

AMD did short the channel because of manufacturing. AMD didnt get 65nm to 3GHz because of manufacturing processes -OR- SOI....your choice. How exactly does someone else paying for the factories change any of that one little bit? It doesnt. People caused these problems, not money. Is this partnership going to bring AMD any 'new' people to help avoid making any of their recent mistakes? No. In fact, they are laying off another 500 people now....just in time for the holidays.

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Struggling chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Wednesday it is cutting 500 workers, or 3 percent of its global staff, to help the company return to profitability.

The cuts are AMD's second big round of layoffs this year and come amid a huge restructuring. So far this year, AMD had already laid off 1,600 workers before the latest announcement, replaced its chief executive and revealed plans to spin off its factories _ which represent a huge expense for chip makers _ in a bid to save money.



How many of those 2100 people layed off this year were responsible for AMD being where it is now? Maybe a few, but Id be willing to bet it wasnt the majority, and of those people who were responsible, Id be willing to bet they are still with AMD or moved on of their own accord, but were not layed off or fired.


Does it bring AMD more money? Yes. Is that money going into manufacturing or R&D? A small amount perhaps, but 2012 is coming just as fast now as it was before AMD announced the "foundy" and with the arrival of 2012 comes the arrival of AMDs Senior notes "payment due" notice. Considering that Mubadalas last $622 million investment is now worth only $170 million, AMD has to think about putting a fair chunk of the "foundry" sell off profit money aside to pay off those senior notes. That in addition to the rest of their debt.



I hate to be the one to tell you this Jay, as its pretty self evident, but cutting your staff and cutting your capabilities is notthe way you solve either design problems or manufacturing problems....its the way you cut overhead i.e. the way you reduce costs to lower them towards your gross revenue. Cutting staff and selling itself off piece by piece does not address resolving any of the issues that put AMD where it is now, it only address adapting to the results of those problems. Dont kid yourself..."asset smart" is really just "desperate money grab #3" no matter how 'positive' they try to sound about it, and it is only a short term band aid, not a long term cure.

AMDs design and manufacturing problems were not staff problems, but management problems. And guess what...The foundry deal didnt displace any of the management that has lead AMD to the fail column over the past few years. Most of them are still there, just in higher paying positions than before while AMDs honest labor is getting canxed to reduce overhead. Honestly, its just pathetic and frankley not very promising.


And thats assuming the deal is approved by the gov. While the current crisis makes this look probable on the outside, considering what AMD makes does not favor the government allowing the deal to go through.

Personally, I think it will go through, as our goverment is well experainced at stating one thing and doing something else, but only time will tell.

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There never has been a budget release from Intel that I recall. They always introduce the higher end of a new architecture first because they try to squeeze the premium for early adopters and evidently it works because they are still doing it. I wont bite on it but people do lol

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Im not trying to rewrite the past, and whats that got to do with AMDs aprtners potential in the future to helping AMD achieving once again? You act like the fab isnt going to happen in 1 sentence, and admit it will in another. Im not attacking you, but your comments werent the best when you said or implied the fab wouldnt be built.

Like Ive said several times, show us AMD, as theyre only as good as their next cpu, again, whats thast have to do with the past? The current people at AMD are the same ones that brought K8, are we to discount that, and not look towards the future as possibly good? I know their track record, I also pointed out Intels disdain for IMCs as well. No one mentions that. Thats just left out, as if it didnt happen. Isnt that the past as well? Am I to judge Intel as a bunch of hypocrits because of this? And assume it to continue, like how Intel claims the gpu as dead, when theyre making Larrabee?

Like I said, your words werent the best chosen, and were influential in making AMD look bad, and werent exactly on the mark. A contibuted bashing, and its simply not needed. What is? Show me AMD

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jaydeejohn wrote :

What I am saying is, when you make certain statements, people form an opinion of the person thing of whats being talked about, and the person saying it. Like you saying Im going on a love fest for AMD. What isnt true that Ive said? AMD is as good as their next cpu. AMDs partners have more monies and influence than Intel. Adding AMDs partners helps AMD to be more competitive, and may allow them to take the crown again someday. With AMDs partners involved in the Saratoga fab, it will be built, and to question that isnt the best of motives towards AMD, not good thought. Influence is influence, whether its good or bad (as in Hitlers beliefs) but just being bad doesnt make it non capable nor non existing.


AMD's partners have 0 influence in CPU technology. ZERO. Name 1 product they have produced. Name 1 piece of technology they have created. So, what influence do they have? As for money, yes. They have a ton of it. But Intel is not hurting for money, either. Again, you still have not answered how having money, and going fabless, will make AMD more competitive. They build a fab, with Abu Dhabi investors, in which they will have to "pay" to manufacture CPUs and GPUs . They have no control what the Foundry will run, and which is priority and not. So, explain how that makes AMD more competitive.

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As again for the love fest, I just posted in another thread that someone at AMD said that therell be a 25% performance increase, and theyd better deliver just that. Im holding AMD to thier word(s), and not cutting them any slack, it only ever seems to be a problem when I hold those same ideals towards Intel.

Intel has just come out with a new arch, and its very costly. This isnt the time for major sales on a platform thatll cost alot of money. Big mistake for Intel here, or bad timing? If I went around and started saying Intels foolish because they released this more expensive product, and whod need it currently, and Intel just wants our money, whatd you gleam from that? I know its just poor timing, but even so, at this point in time, it carries more weight only bevcause of the economic climate, but it still wouldnt be right bashing Intel for doing what they did, now would it? Needless, harmful and being the blind man arent going to mean anything either, as far as AMD or Intel goes, so like I said, quit trying to be argumentative, and wait and see IF AMD delivers, and IF AMDs partners make AMD a competitive force within the cpu market again. Like I said, show me AMD


The difference is, no one is bashing AMD, yet you believe they are. They simply point out the missteps and bad decisions, and you claim "slander" and bad influence. That's bullsh*t. Period. No one forced AMD to make those choices, just AMD, yet, you think it's bashing. It's called AMD's history. People bring up Intel's floating point recall, yet you don't hear people claiming slander because it's bad to talk about Intel's bad history. Or the anti-compeitive, anti-trust statements. Oh, that should not be brought up, either, huh? Or the controversy with the OLPC. Yeah, that would be "slanderous".

As for Intel releasing at a bad economic time. Yes. That's what they did. And you know why? Because that was the time, Intel told their investors, analysts, OEMs, and vendors, that Core i7 would be available. It's called - meeting a schedule. If Intel pushed it out, I would be one of the people jumping on Intel for delaying or pushing out.

As for your "quit trying to be argumentative" thing. Please. You haven't answered any of the questions I brought to you. You just keep bringing up AMD's partners as if it's an unlimited bank account for AMD, and it will solve all their problems, when the catalyst of their problems still exists in the company.

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Have you ever been in business? You know what a partner is? Self interests are involved, not only monetarily, but ideally and legally as well, so yes, in this fact, AMD gets alot of perks from their partners. Or, dont you actually believe that AMD was better off without them? Or, do some people prefer to see AMD not meet THEIR scheduled releases? Rush out cpus that arent ready? Have less monies for R&D? Quit acting like this is akin to nVidia at TSMC with less access, thats ridiculous, like they wont have access to the fab at all, for R&D or anything else they want, when theyre partners in it. I wish it were done differently, and AMD had been able to retain their fabs at the old scenarion, but that didnt happen.

As for their partners never have made a cpu before, you do know how movies are made dont you? The investors never have made a movie before either, but once theyre partners, the movie making can begin. Now, if the movie was going to be made one way or another, one without any monies, a bad "B" flick, or with partners, a star as the main charactor has been added, the special effects are added etc. It doesnt mean that the movie wont flop, but its sure better than where they were before their partners came aboard.

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jaydeejohn wrote :

Have you ever been in business? You know what a partner is? Self interests are involved, not only monetarily, but ideally and legally as well, so yes, in this fact, AMD gets alot of perks from their partners. Or, dont you actually believe that AMD was better off without them? Or, do some people prefer to see AMD not meet THEIR scheduled releases? Rush out cpus that arent ready? Have less monies for R&D? Quit acting like this is akin to nVidia at TSMC with less access, thats ridiculous, like they wont have access to the fab at all, for R&D or anything else they want, when theyre partners in it. I wish it were done differently, and AMD had been able to retain their fabs at the old scenarion, but that didnt happen.

As for their partners never have made a cpu before, you do know how movies are made dont you? The investors never have made a movie before either, but once theyre partners, the movie making can begin. Now, if the movie was going to be made one way or another, one without any monies, a bad "B" flick, or with partners, a star as the main charactor has been added, the special effects are added etc. It doesnt mean that the movie wont flop, but its sure better than where they were before their partners came aboard.



Abu Dhabi sees AMD as an investment, not a partnership. If you can provide a link claiming that the Abu Dhabi investment is a partnership, I will retract my statement. Until then, this is merely an investment for the Abu Dhabi government, as was the earlier $700M investment.

Again, how exactly will this investment make AMD meet their schedule or make better CPUs? Oh, and if you are running a foundry, it's about making MONEY. Guess what R&D doesn't make. Yup, money. In fact, some R&D factories spend HUGE amounts of money, developing a process and refining that process, before it moves on the next process node. So, how exactly will AMD have free reign to use the FOUNDRY CO. as an R&D fab and still run as a foundry? Will the Foundry Co. just stop its line for AMD to run R&D material through?

Movies? Uh, what does that have to do with anything? You claimed that Abu Dhabi had influence, and I said they have 0 influence in the CPU sector. And you bring in movies? Fine. Let's use your movies. How many independent movie companies folded after failing to return investor's investments? 1? 2? But, wouldn't those same investor (partners) be invested "ideally and legally" as well? Oh, no...they just invested to get a return on that investment. Like turpit mentioned, the 2012 date for those guaranteed senior notes are still in play.

Does this help AMD? Of course. But at what cost in the long term. Now, is this bashing AMD? Nope. It's simply looking at what they have done, and speculating on what might happen, based on previous AMD actions/results. Either way, the last thing I want to see is AMD go under.

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Investors are fickle though jaydee. It isnt often that a wealthy investor gives their partner access to their finances beyond what is initially agreed upon unless they see a reason to believe its going to turn into positive cash flow.
Or to use your analogy, If the movie investor has to watch too much of their investment go straight to home video because of inability to meet deadlines, good actors with poor scripts, etc they will either write it off as a loss or take over. Wouldnt you?
Not implying this isnt going to work out for AMD. This could be their turning point but there are risks associated with it. It is only a little scarey because they dont seem to be as sharp and shrewd as they once were. If they bring another white elephant in the room with Deneb it could be really bad.

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jaydeejohn wrote :

Will Intel really build westmere? They make alot of promises, and have come thru on most, but again, Intel was the one saying you dont need a IMC? Cmon, dont act like this wasnt from a certain POV. Hitler had his, and it seemed to convince alot of people as well. I know some peope dont like hearing AMDs current position may be better than it ever was, but thats life.
So, Im to speculate the westmere will never happen and sandy bridge is but a dream, as no one is buying them now, and Intel and their IMC statements, guess you cant trust them...ooops, cant say that, cause thatd make my point.
So, we cant lose trust from anothers (not the trusted ones) comments? Words like influence and slander have no ,meaning? And again, because we havnt seen sandy bridge, its very disputable? Give it a rest, bashing ooops there we go again, is bashing. Making statements like 45nm cpus from AMD dont exist is like the blind man doubting the sky, cause hes never seen it.

Who said anything about a AMD lovefest? Does AMDs partners BOTHER you? Because they have more money, and are a threat to making AMD competitive? Isnt that whats really bothering you here? I say show me AMD, and you call it a love fest? Maybe Intel SHOULD be worried



.........Why wouldn't Intel do Westmere? Its a Nehalem die shrink. Last time I checked Intel was always on boardwith their die shrinks from Prescott to Ceader Mill (65nm), Conroe to Penryn (45nm) so why should Westmere be any different?

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^ I reckon that not his usual posting style, jimmy...

He normally makes more sense than that.

I'm understand tho, if he meant that AMD can't stimulate Intel but...

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I personally don't like AMDs "partners". Not to sound racists but the amount of American companies that are being invested in highly (or bought out like how Citi is owned by some middle eastern prince) freaks me the F out.

I don't like seeing American companies go that way. Its sad. The founders probably would feel the same way. To watch what you build from the ground being sold out to the world.

As for them having more money, that doesn't mean anything. The key difference here is Intel has 30+ years of fab experience behind them along with a lot of brilliant minds, not to include the Universities they work with. You can have billions of dollars to push into R&D but if you are new I doubt you will push Intel in any way.

Sure this will bode well for AMD. But they are still entrusting SOME part of their future in another country basically that doesn't have the same experience as people here who do it for a living. They may gt those ppl over there but there are still many parts that can turn into a big hole for AMD. Just like why toys and pet food should NOT be made in Chine. Lead paint in toys and poison in pet food. The control, quality mainly, is not there.

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jimmy, in the end, no one, even AMD would have chosen this path. I dont really like it either, not because of who the partners are, but AMD just having to do this is bad.

As for the "investor" tag, I guess Im guilty of that, because I likened it all to making a movie, but the "investor part, wasnt the main point, which was that having investors allows for a better movie

These arent just investors, everyones read that down the road, if allowed and chosen to do, that Abu Dhabi may want a research facility in country as well, and thats something a true "investor would never ask/want/need nor desire. Earlier post, I tried showing how the roil rich Arab states are, in many ways, similar to native Americans, in what Ive seen, if they build a successful casino, they branch out, and invest in other companies as well. These investments are a source of pride, a notch on the mantle if you will, and as John Peddie said, Abu Dhabi are excellent partners. So this isnt "just" a normal "investor" scenario, its greater than that, as Abu Dhabi would want their people to learn about this, get involved, go to university for this etc, and that makes a huge difference over an investor, wholl only be looking at the bottom line. Just wanting to have the research facility in UAE should be enough for some people to understand the difference between an investor, and AMDs new partners

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What I am saying is, when you make certain statements, people form an opinion of the person thing of whats being talked about, and the person saying it.


But Dante really has a point. If I make a random opinion statement about a company, you're only looking at my reputation to back it up. If I have a bad reputation, no one will believe me. If I have a good record and then abuse it by targeting a company, I risk losing my reputation after a few tries. This is the extent of slander.

But if I back my opinion with a logical connection to a commonly known fact or two about the company, no longer do I need a reputation. What the company has done, analyzed through some logic anyone can choose to accept or refuse, is now the basis for public perception. Collectively, this has much greater (and less arbitrary) effect than a few slanderous posts.

Dante has stated he works for Intel. It would be prudent to question his reputation on opinions regarding AMD. But you can't ignore his references to the trouble AMD has had at 65nm - the Brisbane L2 latency and initial frequency drop, the sagging performance indicators in initial Phenoms. One is left to agree or disagree with the notion that a weak 65nm process presages a weak 45nm one. We needn't ask for his reputation now; we have the same facts he does, just need to decide whether it is a fluke or a trend. In the end, he has us discussing this not because of him, but because of what AMD did. And that's not slander.




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You know what a partner is? Self interests are involved, not only monetarily, but ideally and legally as well, so yes, in this fact, AMD gets alot of perks from their partners.


Specifically like what perks? I think you touched on the most obvious one:

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Or, dont you actually believe that AMD was better off without them? ... I wish it were done differently, and AMD had been able to retain their fabs at the old scenarion, but that didnt happen.


You already believe AMD is better off, in a way, without the deal, but you couldn't unconditionally assert that because the most obvious perk is that AMD does not have to risk Chapter 11 in the next two years. Since that alone should be enough incentive to get it to agree to most any deal - AMD's hand was forced - what reason is there to think the other party volunteered anything for AMD's long-term health?

Ideally, would AMD offer up its foundry services to outsiders to take advantage of volume? Why hasn't it... and why hasn't Intel, with it's 12-month lead in R&D possibly commanding an even greater premium? Because that's a separate commitment of focus and capacity off your core business and onto specializing in someone else's chips. It requires volume of its own for sustainability. It requires an entire business set up - like IBM, TSMC, and Chartered have it. You choose to cut corners or charge a premium to profit, and that's while somehow combining the volume of multiple customers into one general R&D budget.

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As for their partners never have made a cpu before, you do know how movies are made dont you?


The bulk of movie profits go to the fat cats who put up the money, because they risk their money in case of a flop. A smaller sum goes to the salaries of those who produce and act in the movie, and these people have reputations that affect how easily they can secure funding. Common intuition would say that funding and talent are both necessary for a good movie to come out. In the real world, sometimes a big movie comes out of very little funding (by a factor of 1000+) and/or relatively unknown talent. That's why movie making is very much called an art and not a science... and why the business continues despite so many flops.

AMD used to be, and Intel is, both the fat cat and the production talent. But AMD is moving toward a model where it puts up some of the money and therefore gets only partial returns - simply because it no longer can foot the entire bill. Soon under the deal, it will hardly own upcoming process technology and will have to pay to use it (but... hasn't IBM sold foundry tech that AMD paid to adapt to CPUs?). It's up to you whether processor design is science or art, but semiconductor manufacturing is clearly more of a science. That means you can count on the Foundry taking both consistent sums of money and talent to develop advanced process tech. Abu Dhabi, not having any experience in this field, is probably limited to taking the business approach of relying on existing talent and buying/hiring more if economically sensible. Has AMD had a proven record on (adapting) process tech? My worry is that the (IMO) already marginal tech will turn into substandard production quality or a new price premium for AMD's chips from the overhead of the new company, at least for a few years while we speculate on Foundry Co.'s R&D expansion and ability to secure others' business.

And what's in it for Abu Dhabi? Reasonable return on investment is a given, but I see a wealthy Middle Eastern country (80% of U.S. per capita) eager to get her feet wet in microprocessor technology. A few extra dollars thrown AMD's way is fine, and being second-rate with litho tech is also fine for a start. This opens the doors to new design firms possibly competing with AMD and Intel, though I'm not privy to their secret plans. I only know that their temptation is greatest in the CPU business because that's the process tech they're already getting. They could branch out to similar products, but the less related, the more awkward it might be to capitalize on combined volume production among AMD and other customers.

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Intel has just come out with a new arch, and its very costly. This isnt the time for major sales on a platform thatll cost alot of money. Big mistake for Intel here, or bad timing?


Wait, aren't big mistake and bad timing the same thing?

A new architecture takes years to come out and has a limited lifespan where it depreciates as competitors take over. i7's release was foretold not by present economics but those a few years past. Let's not second-guess this in hindsight; what's done is done, and Intel looks to be more than able to weather this. Better yet, the whole industry gets technology in advance and might even find discounts at Intel's cost. Intel's options from best to worst:

(1) Release a CPU as soon as it's ready
(2) Release a CPU before it's ready
(3) Don't release a CPU that's ready




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The current people at AMD are the same ones that brought K8, are we to discount that, and not look towards the future as possibly good? I know their track record, I also pointed out Intels disdain for IMCs as well.


Two completely divergent lines of reasoning. The first alludes to finalized product performance, which is usable raw data. The second is an opinion about a design decision with a premise about finalized performance unsupported in real-world observation. I explain below.

Two years ago I found people warmly received my premise that P4 was a mistake from the very start. It explained how K7 rocked... it explained K8's easy reign... it explained the huge jump with Core 2... this was all on the desktop. And it gave the impression that AMD was actually consistently behind and only momentarily ahead in the consumer market when it released something shortly before Intel did - so long as Intel was not pursuing the wrong core. This "corrected" track record is nowhere near as optimistic, is it?

Before Core 2, AMD was bragging all over about IMC and native multicore. When Core 2 came out and walked over the DT and small-server benchmarks, Intel's "disdain" for IMC pretty much became validated. An IMC is no subsitute for having ample fast cache on the chip that mostly negates the need for IMC in the first place. They poured salt in the wound by turning a six-month-old Core 2 into a quad-core - 1.5 years before Barcelona - demonstrating the agility of MCM over native. A corollary to my premise was that P4 was faulty at the core; the rest of the architecture was fine over the years and got incorporated into Core 2.

But what about large server performance? Well, Intel's IMC argument was economic, not of performance across-the-board or of general disdain. They were unifying the dies for desktop, server, and mobile markets, and to do that with an IMC would require either separate die or a lot of wasted die space to sense different types of RAM... trying this with MCM would be even more troublesome. Core 2, fast as it was, was an integrated design, not very modular. They never claimed IMCs were useless on servers, but it's not like we can expect Intel employees to advertise the competitor's product by openly pointing out their own design's lack of modularity.

Here's what they said, months before Core 2 even came out: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6047412-7.html

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The ONLY reason I mentioned Intel and its high cost platform was because it could, and has been construed as not needed right now for DT, doesnt show great promise in gaming etc, that was only to say Intel isnt spotless, nor infallible, but to kick them for these things is pointless, just like kicking AMDs partners saying the new fab may not happen.

" My worry is that the (IMO) already marginal tech will turn into substandard production quality or a new price premium for AMD's chips from the overhead of the new company, at least for a few years while we speculate on Foundry Co.'s R&D expansion and ability to secure others' business. " I agree with you here, but theres one thing wrong in all your postulating. AMD owns the fabs too. That means special usage. That means, if the fabs make money, so does AMD etc.

To disregard yourself (as AMD is part owner) and let others come first before you, it would have to mean high profit for you anyways. I wasnt putting Intel down, didnt mean to, I mentioned these only to show that its unnecessary, and doubting things just because youve never seen them doesnt really mean squat. It all sounds like bashing.

Now comes the real question : was the doubting/bashing worthy? Take all of AMDs failures, and yes, they havnt done much since the FX60, lol, and thats sad, but this is a whole new ballgame, and whether they turn the corner, or do as you said, time will tell, and thats why I say show me, even tho theyre in a better position than theyve been in for awhile, or at least potentially, but to jump on them and their new partners now isnt wise, as we really DONT know how thisll turn out, no one does, and to say its business as usual just doesnt cut it from here on out

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FOR SALE: AMD (assorted parts) (whoops, I didn't mean sale, I meant "Partnership" )

Highest bidder! Pay in cash or oil!


In other news, AMD stock is doing pretty good today, it's only down 11%. Our benefactor in all his glory, Hector Ruiz, would like to remind you that although one share of AMD costs $3.10, that four shares costs $12.40, which doesn't sound as bad.

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LOL yea, gotta love Hector, and the stock mocket too, and no, thats not a Boston slur

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jaydeejohn wrote :

Intel was the one saying you dont need a IMC?



Although I don't have a link handy, I believe what Intel said a couple years ago was, at that time, they didn't need an integrated memory controller, mainly because the FSB was more than fast enough for most purposes (4P or higher excluded). And using MCM wouldn't lend itself to an IMC anyway. And I think comparing K8 or K10 to Core2 on 2P or under pretty much proves Intel was correct.

I seriously doubt anybody at Intel ever said that they would never need an IMC. If somebody can provide a link disproving this, I'll gladly munch my lunch.

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The ONLY reason I mentioned Intel and its high cost platform was because it could, and has been construed as not needed right now for DT, doesnt show great promise in gaming etc



Bloomfield is a bit expensive right now but this is the "luxury" line to quote Ed Stroglio from Overclockers. The "value" line will be out next year. As for its gaming promise, many reviews from earlier this week show it has great potential when the GPU is not the bottleneck - i.e., multiple GPUs in crossfire or SLI.

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As again for the love fest, I just posted in another thread that someone at AMD said that therell be a 25% performance increase, and theyd better deliver just that. Im holding AMD to thier word(s), and not cutting them any slack



Just out of curiosity, how did you react when Barcie came out some 14 months ago, after Randy Allen's infamous "expect 40% greater performance over Core2 across a wide variety of workloads" about 20 months ago?

I find it interesting that Shanghai is supposed to be launched in what - 8 days from now? And there are virtually no leaked reviews out, just more statements from AMD about "up to 25% improvement in IPC" or something similar. That would be pretty amazing from a die-shrink + more cache. But I guess we'll know in a couple weeks when the side-by-side reviews come out.

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When Barcy came out, I was disappointed like most everyone else, couldnt believe that AMD said a few things that were just wrong, and alot of things that were taken out of proportion, and blew up in their face. Thats why I made the OP of how I was surprised that a Barcy (Phenom) could even max out a G280, because the performance wasnt and still isnt considered that good.

Again, the only reason I bring the IMC, the GPU etc things up is because, if I did this all the time, then itd point to me as downing Intel, which alot of comments in thread had done, just only about AMD, which, again, like I said, is pointless, and irrelevant. Theres some truth to what everyones said about AMD, more than most want to admit, but to keep hearing it, over and over, is getting old. And it doesnt apply like it did before.

As to the silence coming out of AMD now, its several things. One, Im thinking all the sites want AMD to succeed, and arent pressuring them for info, and are hoping for the best, and allowing AMD to handle it this time, without any hype from the sites. As for AMD, I think theyre playing low prfoile to hopefully surprise somewhat, maybe not great, but a nice surprise. Maybe they learned something from the ATI 4xxx series launch, but again, just to steal the bashers thunder, it could also mean that theyre having many troubles with 45nm, tlbs or anything else that could possibly happen, and the product will have to be delayed. If someone had said that, instead of doubting whether a fab would be built, to me itd make more sense, as delays do happen, and theyve been hyping this release as coming supposedly earlier than theyd planned, tho its still later than old roadmaps

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TechnologyCoordinator wrote :

FOR SALE: AMD (assorted parts) (whoops, I didn't mean sale, I meant "Partnership" )

Highest bidder! Pay in cash or oil!


In other news, AMD stock is doing pretty good today, it's only down 11%. Our benefactor in all his glory, Hector Ruiz, would like to remind you that although one share of AMD costs $3.10, that four shares costs $12.40, which doesn't sound as bad.

(so sorry, could not resist)



Yes, the stocks a steal for those former AMD employees now on unemployment. That said, Intel does the same thing when they're on top. Big bucks for CEO's regardless of how a company does in share price, but perennial layoffs to boost short term profitability.

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jaydeejohn wrote :

Im not trying to rewrite the past, and whats that got to do with AMDs aprtners potential in the future to helping AMD achieving once again? You act like the fab isnt going to happen in 1 sentence, and admit it will in another. Im not attacking you, but your comments werent the best when you said or implied the fab wouldnt be built.

Like Ive said several times, show us AMD, as theyre only as good as their next cpu, again, whats thast have to do with the past? The current people at AMD are the same ones that brought K8, are we to discount that, and not look towards the future as possibly good? I know their track record, I also pointed out Intels disdain for IMCs as well. No one mentions that. Thats just left out, as if it didnt happen. Isnt that the past as well? Am I to judge Intel as a bunch of hypocrits because of this? And assume it to continue, like how Intel claims the gpu as dead, when theyre making Larrabee?

Like I said, your words werent the best chosen, and were influential in making AMD look bad, and werent exactly on the mark. A contibuted bashing, and its simply not needed. What is? Show me AMD




I act like the fab isnt going to happen in one sentence, then admit it will in another????

Jay, clearly you havent been reading Marine Corps Times, Navy Times, Army Times, Air Force Times or Defense Weekly. My "acting" is merely pre-digested reguritation of events within certain segments of the US government, The DOD, that could impact the transaction .

Had you been reading those, you would have known this without me ever 'reguritating' it. You do know there is more to whats going on in the computing world than AMD's press releases and Thundy's Troll posts, yes?

As for me "admiting" anything will happen, how could I possibly do that? I have no connection other than being an observer. This is not like Hector 'admiting' AMD screwed up the Phenom release, in so many words or otherwise. I dont work for AMD. I cant "admit" anything. All I can do is have an opinion, and I do, and I posted it. Allow me to simplify: In spite of potential roadblocks I beleive the transaction will occur as outlined. Thats an admision of nothing, just an opinion the same as it was the first time I posted it in diferent words.

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...show us AMD, as theyre only as good as their next cpu, again



I beleive you are unintentionally misquoting an old business saying:

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.....only as good as their last success.

Note the use of the word LAST, not the word NEXT

Here are some examples of proper usage for you:

[url=http://business-success22.blogspot.com/2008/05/only-as-good-as-last-success.html][/url]
[url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/102524628/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0][/url]
[url=http://books.google.com/books?id=P0Mccblm6eUC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=only+as+good+as+their+last+success.&source=web&ots=329DlS2NrV&sig=uWY-D0yROGrLBttWJih1kEV1Hco&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result][/url]
[url=http://kcubbin.tripod.com/id36.html][/url]

If you dont beleive me, go google "only as good as their next success" and see how many returns you get.

Now, think about what you are saying. AMD is only as good as their next CPU.

AMD is only as good as their next CPU???

That means that back in aught 6, when AM2 was the latest and greatest AMD CPU, AMD was only as good as phenom, since phenom would be their then 'next CPU'. Phenom wasnt even a twinkle in Henri Richards press releases yet. That can only mean AMD was in deep do do back then. As far as being as good as their next CPU, how do you, I or anyone else know how good or bad their next CPU is? Do you have an ES? I know I dont. All Ive seen are a few leaks, some Colaler tests, several poorly photoshoped fake pix and several BS 'secret test results' from no mame chinese blog sites. If AMD is only as good as their next CPU, they had best get their behinds in gear and get it out as based on their last 'next' CPU, they aint-a doin to good.

Honestly Jay, when you think about your misquote and try to apply it, it works out to be like something from Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. 'AMD is only as good as it wioll haven be'. Either way you try to apply the saying Jay, 'AMD habeenwillingonbefor in some hot water.'


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The current people at AMD are the same ones that brought K8, are we to discount that, and not look towards the future as possibly good? I know their track record, I also pointed out Intels disdain for IMCs as well. No one mentions that. Thats just left out, as if it didnt happen. Isnt that the past as well? Am I to judge Intel as a bunch of hypocrits because of this? And assume it to continue, like how Intel claims the gpu as dead, when theyre making Larrabee?



As for the current people, yes Dirk Meyer did bring K8, but remember K8 didnt start off as 'uber' chip, it matured into that., But unlike Phenom, it did not have to mature from a starting point of 'uber' fail. And presuming that one success means a history of success is a false assumption. Based on that theory, we should all be speaking german (here comes the verboten Hitler reference) since Hilters series of successes early and well into WWII is documented fact. Sure, he had a few failures later in the war, but just look what he did before that. With a track record like he had early in the war, surely he will prevail again and win! Right?

As for Intel "disdining IMC" and no one mentioning it.....cmon Jay, now your pulling a whats-his-name. There has been plenty of talk on this forum (Yes!!! Right here at THGF!!) about Intel and IMC. And not just on the forums, but at TGD AND TGH. You do know Intel tried IMC well before i7 and failed, yes? almost 9 years ago.

Heres a fast link:

[url=http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Timna/][/url]

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Timna was planned as a low-cost microprocessor with integrated graphics unit and memory controller designed to work with Rambus memory.



[url=http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/02/06/forgotten_tech_intel_timna/][/url]

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In the Spring of 2000, Intel confirmed it was working on a range of SoCs, of which Timna was merely the low-end version. Timna was demo'd for the first time in public. At the time Intel called it a "smart integration product". Pat Gelsinger, then the chip giant's CTO, said the SoC's memory controller would initially use SDRAM, with RDRAM support coming in 2001. This would, he said, begin "the transition of RDRAM into the value segment".



http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/02/06/intel_timna_3.jpg

And guess what Jay. Timna has been mentioned many times in the forums here at THGF, but some people seem either to have selective memories, or simply didnt want to read the forums. Do a forum search for "timna" and see how many hits you get BEFORE you claim no one has talked about it.


On the note of IMC, do we really need to go down this route? Again? Hasent this dead horse been beaten enough? No? OK, then go for it and tell me just how much of a failure has having an off die MC has been? Explain to me just how much faster in DT is phenom than C2Q.

On the server side, there is a difference. Gee, seems Ive said that before. Guess you didnt see that either.


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Like I said, your words werent the best chosen, and were influential in making AMD look bad, and werent exactly on the mark. A contibuted bashing, and its simply not needed. What is? Show me AMD



And once again I say, I did not make AMD "look bad". Reciting actual occurances is not making anyone "look bad", its simply reciting occurances. I did not promo 'multi core for dummies", AMD did, I did not cut 939s life short, AMD did, I did hype Phenom, AMD did, I not design or manufacture Phenom, AMD did.

Basically, what this comes down to, is that youre saying anyone who points out AMDs mistakes is "just trying to make AMD look bad". Sorry, but it taint' so friend. AMD makes AMD look bad, not me.








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" As for Intel "disdining IMC" and no one mentioning it.....cmon Jay, now your pulling a whats-his-name. There has been plenty of talk on this forum (Yes!!! Right here at THGF!!) about Intel and IMC. And not just on the forums, but at TGD AND TGH. You do know Intel tried IMC well before i7 and failed, yes? almost 9 years ago. "

Had to laugh at that one, no, Im not pulling a whatshisname lol. There were several negative connottations from Intel regarding the IMC, but thats still not my point, mentioning it is, as its pointless to do so. Itd be just digging up crap from the past to down Intel, as alot of whats been said about AMD here has been. By the way, I never brought up the heatburst to C2D, if I were to just hang onto the netburst era, Id have alot of negatives towards Intel, and that lasted how long? So why no current optimism for AMD? Intel fiiuiiiiiiinally got off the P4 and went to C2D, it is possible for AMD to do the same, as theyre in their P4 era now with Barcy, and need to crawl out of it, because unlike Intel, who has all the money in the world, alll the fabs, all the R&D possibilities, AMD has to take its time and aim more carefully. But I dont count them out, nor do I go around saying the fab wont be built, or the merger wont happen, which is akin to the same thing.

Like Ive been saying all along, AMD is partners, not defunct and helpless in all this, and itll be interesting to see if their new partners want to cut AMDs throats by not allowing access to the fabs, or denying them much needed orders, because hurting AMD for orders makes more sense than making a few bucks. Im just asking for people to think before they post. And, by the way, you were influenced by those magazines, maybe whatshisnames evile brother wrote them, ya know, the darkBxxxx

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Jay, optimism is great, but its not reality. Just as Intel had to prove C2D wasnt another Netburst, so to doe AMD have to prove Denab isnt another Phenom.

Why? Simple. They ar asking the consumer to give them thier money based on a promise of performance. Just as Intel lied about Netbiurst, so to di AMD lie about Phenom. You can be as optimistic as you want. Trust that AMD isnt lying, this time. Spend your money. I hope its not wasted.

On the foundry. AMD is and has been bleeding cash for 8 consecutive quarters now. Only this last quarter did they show signs of life. Before the wall street melt down. With the past 2 days drops in the dow, AMDs stock is moving back to the 2 dollar range. They owe hard money due in 2012. If they cant profit enough to pay off that debt, they will have to find another creditor, sell off more control, or sell more common shares. If their stock doesnt rebound, theres not much hope in another public offering. If they cant show a profict, they wont get another creditor. Leaving them only the option of trading more of themselves. You can be as optimistic as you want, but the reality is that their situation is not promising, and has not been.

AMDs new "partners" are not "partners" yet, and even when they are, they cant "cut their throat" read the articles giving details of the press releases. AMD has garruntees. Regardless, the $5.7billion "partenership" deal isnt very much money. Its not much more than AMD paid for ATI. AMDs current value is less than half the combined value of AMD/ATI the day before the aquisition. And if AMDs stock value continues on its current trend, by this time next year, AMD will not have enough money to pay off the senior notes. They will be going CH 11 unless they can turn things around, and thats not sharimoron fanboyistic tardings, its just simple honest math.

Once again, you call stating facts trying to make someone look bad, but its not. By your logic (here comes another verboten refernece) Hilter should be given the benefit of the doubt. I dont think so.

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The ONLY reason I mentioned Intel and its high cost platform was because it could, and has been construed as not needed right now for DT, doesnt show great promise in gaming etc



Not for multi-GPU setups. It has been shown not only at THG but also at a few other sites that a Core i7 does give a pretty damn good boot to games running a dual GPU card (9800GX2 4870X2) or 2/3 way SLI CF/CFX. And thats for SINGLE threaded apps. Imagine a game engine that does take control of quad cores. 35% in Crysis @ 1600x1200 all on Very High is not small. 35% on a game like that is quite amazing to get back with just a CPU.

Other than that, I agree with Turpit. I HOPE that Deneb does well. But I like to look at reality and have to take it all with a grain of salt. Just because it is said to be better doesn't always mean it. Prescott certainly wasn't better than Northwood. I myself even had doubts for Core 2 Duo until I heard it was based off of the Pentium Ms just with the ability to clock higher. Once I heard that I new it would be a good chip mainly because THG got their hands on the Asus convertor and tested it out and was able to take on AMD pretty well. Then with the enhancements they added and higher clocking ability they had a great chip. Nehalem I had more faith in because its built on the proven Core 2 Penryn tech with a IMC. Knew the chip itself would have been good but since this was Intels first full fledged (not first but first to be mass produced) IMC I wasn't so sure on that part.

AMD has a rough road ahead of them. Its not going to be easy to convince people of Denebs performance especially after the promises that were failed with Agena (3GHz Phenoms) and the in house BS that personally ticked me off.

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The ONLY reason I mentioned Intel and its high cost platform was because it could, and has been construed as not needed right now for DT, doesnt show great promise in gaming etc, that was only to say Intel isnt spotless, nor infallible, but to kick them for these things is pointless,


Doesn't Intel have a history of offering us high cost platforms? AMD too, at some point. But those are non-exclusionary offers... we can still buy their budget devices and usually at lower cost - especially you as a mainstream (non-SLI) gamer. I believe you're well aware of the SLI tests pointing to even high end single GPU bottlenecks on Penryn, so why blame i7 for being faster than the GPUs can accomodate?

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itll be interesting to see if their new partners want to cut AMDs throats by not allowing access to the fabs,


Certainly a strange scenario, but I think that can happen on a much more subtle level than you portray. Semiconductor manufacturing is not simply feeding a blueprint and getting functional chips off the line. A fab can't produce any arbitrary design, and it's a given that different fabs encounter varying difficulty when trying to manufacture a known workable design. I expect AMD to get preferential treatment, but how far Foundry will go to accommodate AMD alongside better competing designs, I can't predict.

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There were several negative connottations from Intel regarding the IMC


I went through Intel's remarks about IMC, as journalled here - http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6047412-7.html. They seemed completely rational. Lots of fanpeople have paraphrased those remarks into straw arguments. Would you read the originals and tell me they're without merit?

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to jump on them and their new partners now isnt wise, as we really DONT know how thisll turn out, no one does, and to say its business as usual just doesnt cut it from here on out


AMD would be happy to start off with business as usual - minus the debts. I believe AMD has long had loose integration between design and manufacturing; splitting those into two closely linked business entities thus seems innocuous rather than destructive. It is Intel who boasts of tight integration, basically aiming for the right design on the first try; AMD prides itself on fast turnaround when a flaw is discovered during manufacturing... necessary if designs are expected to contain incompatibilities.

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I never brought up the heatburst to C2D .... that lasted how long? So why no current optimism for AMD?


I brought up heatburst to C2D in the context of heatburst being a mistake that allowed for such a jump to C2D. Why won't AMD make such a jump with Deneb? Because:

1) Deneb is a die shrink, not a completely different chip from its predecessor

2) K10 isn't as big a mistake as the P4

3) AMD doesn't have an existing processor line that rocks the K10. It was starting from scratch that created the P4.

Note that Intel, with its vast funding, fab resources, and numerous design teams, recovered from its build-from-scratch P4 by replacing the core with one based on a proven design - its own Pentium M line. This is not to say AMD can't by chance produce a stellar design from scratch. It's that the risk for another flop like the P4 is rather high. Money can't replace years of refinement.

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This should put another non-truth to rest about the i7 cpu's in gaming,
from what i've ben reading the best setup for gaming is the X58- i7 setup
period. this is for everyone with a 4870 X2 your card will be the bottleneck
on a i7 setup, heres the article.[url=http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-gaming,2061-5.html][/url]


From what i've seen out their as far as overclocking, gaming, and all other apps,
this is the system to have.

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I really like the pro-US rhetoric but face it ... the US is bankrupt !!

The economy is shot and anyone with any money isn't spending it in the US.

Just about anything American of value isn't owned by Americans any more.

You spent 10 times what you had on a war on unwinnable terms.

You loaned tons of money that you didn't have to people who couldn't afford it.

It is clear the US might be good at designing CPU's (thanks also to help fron others) but your not good at basic accounting, or managing your budget.

The US is nearly a third world country by today's standards - no basic heathcare, no social security net, high crime rates, homelessness, poor sanitation and regulatory processes for electrical trades as well as substandard building codes.

I love the US for trying to care for the world but it is doing a bad job at home.

I'd like an i7 though ...

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reynod wrote :

I really like the pro-US rhetoric but face it ... the US is bankrupt !!

The economy is shot and anyone with any money isn't spending it in the US.

Just about anything American of value isn't owned by Americans any more.

You spent 10 times what you had on a war on unwinnable terms.

You loaned tons of money that you didn't have to people who couldn't afford it.

It is clear the US might be good at designing CPU's (thanks also to help fron others) but your not good at basic accounting, or managing your budget.

The US is nearly a third world country by today's standards - no basic heathcare, no social security net, high crime rates, homelessness, poor sanitation and regulatory processes for electrical trades as well as substandard building codes.

I love the US for trying to care for the world but it is doing a bad job at home.

I'd like an i7 though ...



Hopefully the upcoming regime change will get the US back on the right track.

I don't agree with everything you said, but a lot of it is true. Many Americans (and I know lots of 'em) don't know how to budget or spend. The Iraq war was a HUGE mistake. Crime rates aren't that bad, they're only bad in bad areas, for example, Detroit. I live in a city next to Detroit, Warren, and we have very low crime rates (except for auto theft and robbery, but we blame Detroit for that)

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I apologise If I came across a bit negative - I am not critical of American people as such ...

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reynod wrote :

I apologise If I came across a bit negative - I am not critical of American people as such ...



The majority of the US voters feel the way you do. That's why we said adios to the republican leadership and many republican congressmen.

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We live in a country full of cowboys, bringing their own diplomacy, but our leaders dont let us use cowboy diplomacy against those who break the laws, so it escalates. It didnt use to be this way, but the same ones who curtail our ability to stop the crimes, are the same ones that allow the crimes to happen. They shifted from the now very old conservatism, which even the liberals of that era would oppose such a shift. Today, John F Kenedy wouldnt be elected because hed be too conservative

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When Barcy came out, I was disappointed like most everyone else, couldnt believe that AMD said a few things that were just wrong, and alot of things that were taken out of proportion, and blew up in their face. Thats why I made the OP of how I was surprised that a Barcy (Phenom) could even max out a G280, because the performance wasnt and still isnt considered that good.



I thought AMD lost a lot of credibility with that one - my take is that they either knew the performance wouldn't be that great and were merely trying to keep the AMD herd in the K10 corral, or that they didn't actually know which made them look inept, at least in their simulations.

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Again, the only reason I bring the IMC, the GPU etc things up is because, if I did this all the time, then itd point to me as downing Intel, which alot of comments in thread had done, just only about AMD, which, again, like I said, is pointless, and irrelevant. Theres some truth to what everyones said about AMD, more than most want to admit, but to keep hearing it, over and over, is getting old. And it doesnt apply like it did before.



I believe it was TC who said the best arguments are those backed up with facts and linkies :). When you implied that Intel absolutely and forevermore disavowed using an IMC, you were stretching the facts. If somebody else were to stretch the facts about AMD, most people would jump on that as well from what I've seen here. Let's fact it - neither Intel nor AMD needs any fanboy help here on Tom's - what they require is Joe Sixpack buy their products, and very few Joe's come here to Toms to hang out in the forums.

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As to the silence coming out of AMD now, its several things. One, Im thinking all the sites want AMD to succeed, and arent pressuring them for info, and are hoping for the best, and allowing AMD to handle it this time, without any hype from the sites. As for AMD, I think theyre playing low prfoile to hopefully surprise somewhat, maybe not great, but a nice surprise. Maybe they learned something from the ATI 4xxx series launch, but again, just to steal the bashers thunder, it could also mean that theyre having many troubles with 45nm, tlbs or anything else that could possibly happen, and the product will have to be delayed. If someone had said that, instead of doubting whether a fab would be built, to me itd make more sense, as delays do happen, and theyve been hyping this release as coming supposedly earlier than theyd planned, tho its still later than old roadmaps..



I should point out that the last time this happened was with the Barcie release on 9/10/07 - many people found it strange indeed that during the few months before the release, there was hardly any news leaked or otherwise about Barcie. Well except for Fuddie's "dancing in the aisles" BS. Let's hope indeed that this lack of Shanghai news is more in line with the 4870 launch and not the Barcie launch.

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jaydeejohn wrote :

We live in a country full of cowboys, bringing their own diplomacy, but our leaders dont let us use cowboy diplomacy against those who break the laws, so it escalates. It didnt use to be this way, but the same ones who curtail our ability to stop the crimes, are the same ones that allow the crimes to happen. They shifted from the now very old conservatism, which even the liberals of that era would oppose such a shift. Today, John F Kenedy wouldnt be elected because hed be too conservative




I personally believe, that U.S. Americans, are unable to do so, because some, people out there, in our nation don’t have maps.
I believe that our education like such as in South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like such as. And, I believe they should our education over here, in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.



(^Miss South Carolina transcript^)

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jimmysmitty wrote :

Not for multi-GPU setups. It has been shown not only at THG but also at a few other sites that a Core i7 does give a pretty damn good boot to games running a dual GPU card (9800GX2 4870X2) or 2/3 way SLI CF/CFX. And thats for SINGLE threaded apps. Imagine a game engine that does take control of quad cores. 35% in Crysis @ 1600x1200 all on Very High is not small. 35% on a game like that is quite amazing to get back with just a CPU.



I'd really like to see some testing on why Ci7 shows such a huge difference with multi-GPU setups on some games - after all the QX9770 has about the same branch-prediction capabilities, minus the 2nd-level predictor and the return stack buffer improvements. The macro-ops 64-bit fusion shouldn't make a difference in 32-bit games. Hyperthreading likewise would be of no use in a lot of games. And Turbo mode should only make a relatively small difference for lightly-threaded apps. My understanding is that Intel pretty much kept the Ci7 execution units the same as in Core2.

My uneducated guess is either the improved loop stream hardware or the IMC, although since K8 & K10 have IMC's, you'd think they would show an advantage in multi-GPU systems as well if that were the reason. If Deneb doesn't show such an improvement then I guess we could rule out the IMC. Anyway, there seems to be some synergistic effect going on, particularly with SLI on some games.

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Of course I was stretching the facts. And making mountains out of mole hills by using the gpu/Larrabee thing, but I see similar things going on here as well about AMD, and thats my point. It may be to a lessor degree, but it exists.

If AMD does manage a decent cpu this round, these things will calm down, this I also know, just like everyone harping on netburst, but it stopped when Intel actually made good, so to it may if AMD does as well, tho theres still harping about heatburst, and to me, the only reason to bring those up is for comparisons only, as in back in the day.

Im not excluding thwe possibility of failure here. AMD could do the pooch again, but its unlikely. I really dont want to hear from AMD, just like I didnt want to see all the leaks about i7, because as we understand, its still somewhat unknown, even after reviews To me, speculation should be limited to positive things, and Ive seen very little positive coming from alot of people here concerning Deneb, theres some, tho its brief. I wont, and dont have to defend my position as to what I like or think, and Im thinking some people are too gaurded regarding Deneb, in case theyre wrong, and theres always someone there to spout negative speculation, which like Ive said, really isnt helpful.

Having said that, if this place turned into a AMD zone, Id be the loudest Bxxxxxxx about it, or a Intel lovefest as well. I understand theres more to things that Im letting on here, and thats ok, I just hope others do as well

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TechnologyCoordinator wrote :

I personally believe, that U.S. Americans, are unable to do so, because some, people out there, in our nation don’t have maps.
I believe that our education like such as in South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like such as. And, I believe they should our education over here, in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.



(^Miss South Carolina transcript^)



That was classic.
She will be someone's trophy wife in the future...oh, and that was Miss Teen South Carolina.

Oh, and according to a few sites, she graduated with a 3.5 GPA. So, maybe she was just really nervous, but it was still classic, none the less.


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The fact that there is zero sentence structure, to me, means that she was definitely very nervous.

And High School GPA, at least where I live (Iowa) means nothing. Really, nothing.

But it sure was funny.

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fazers_on_stun wrote :

Let's fact it - neither Intel nor AMD needs any fanboy help here on Tom's - what they require is Joe Sixpack buy their products, and very few Joe's come here to Toms to hang out in the forums.




Yep, I buy single bottles of good imported British or Scottish beers and ales (from Old Peculiar, to Newcastle, to Belhaven). At my age, I'm into taste not getting wasted. Sad to see the people buying cases of Bud at the H.E.B. No taste and designed just for binge drinking. It broke my moderate supporter of John McCain's heart to learn that's how Cindy McCain makes her money. Even when I drank too often 30 years ago in college, I didn't drink Bud, I went for Molsen or Rolling Rock (but never Iron City).

Joe Sixpack might buy one computer, if at all, every 5 years; but he probably bought an Xbox 360. Sad that Republican operatives call him a knuckle walker behind his back. That's why, though I have conservative family values, conservative foreign policy opinions and liberal economic views (social justice is a Biblical precept), I've found it hard to vote for anyone in either party the way the far left wants us to be libertines and the far right thinks that God's a libertarian.

I voted for McCain but didn't like his campaign. I loved the way Sarah Palin had her handicapped baby instead of an abortion. I did not like her pitbull with lipstick shtick. I only voted for McCain because I knew he'd win Texas and I felt he was faking his campaign to bring out the conservative base, but that he'd work with Democrats as a true maverick once Obama was in office. Yes, I figured Obama would win, and if I lived in a swing state, I would have voted for him alongside my wife. I never failed to vote for McCain vs. other Republicans when he ran for the nomination, but he always got derailed by the same tactics he used against Obama. Sad thing to watch.

The change I want to see is a rollback to the America I grew up in. Not the America we happily left behind after the Civil Rights act, but the America where corporations cared about their employees and if you did a good job, you'd have a job for life if you wanted it. My father in law retired as an electrical engineer from Lockheed in 1989. He chose to work there instead of chasing higher paying jobs every decade.

I've been laid off at times when there was no performance reason and the only economic reason was short term improvement in company stocks for the CEO and cronies. My definition of capitalism does not involve capitalists making paper profits from short selling or selling out the investors, employees and customers. What we have today, that led to the worst recession since the Great Depression is a sort of mercantilism, where nations don't matter and multinationals treat us all like colonists to be exploited.

I better not get too depressed, or I"ll buy two Newcastles for my late night gaming session tomorrow night. LOL

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If AMD does manage a decent cpu this round, these things will calm down, this I also know, just like everyone harping on netburst, but it stopped when Intel actually made good, so to it may if AMD does as well, tho theres still harping about heatburst, and to me, the only reason to bring those up is for comparisons only, as in back in the day.

Im not excluding the possibility of failure here.
Having said that, if this place turned into a AMD zone, Id be the loudest Bxxxxxxx about it, or a Intel lovefest as well. I understand theres more to things that Im letting on here, and thats ok, I just hope others do as well



AMD can't fail. We know what Deneb will be at it's core. Seriously, Deneb's a die shrink of B3 and overclocked B3's aren't that bad, so higher stock Denebs with more cache should do okay.

AMD's next chance at real success or failure will be Bulldozer (is that what it's called?). The next architecture that has to match i7 at the very least, even if it falls slightly behind whatever Intel replaces i7 with in a couple of years.

There now, I'm no longer depressed. Tech always makes me feel better about the real world. Now, only if we had a colony planet we could ship all the golden parachute CEO's, hedge fund managers, clueless marketing executives and telephone sanitizers (is there such a job category outside of the fiction of Douglas Adams?), then the rest of humanity can actually make progress.

Real capitalism is making a good product (or providing a needed service), marketing it at a good price, and paying a decent wage to employees and a decent dividend to investors (who are often the employees nowadays). Real capitalism is not marketing securities that remind me of the line from Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower":

"Businessmen they drink my wine, plowmen plow my earth;
none of them along the line know what any of it is worth"


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yipsl wrote :

Don't these people realize that us old guys loved Tech TV and spend lots of money too?




I miss that station! G4 is no where near as good. Was it Tech TV that had the C-Net show?

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TV is designed for youth, always has been, or rather, once the liberals took it over in the 60s, it always has been. Its getting old, this new liberalism heheh. I tried explaining that to my kids, the things thatre supposed to be new, are just old, rehashed 60s failures, thatll still failing, and are more of a placebo for the people, popular for the bringers of such garbage, and keeps them elected.

I liked Jimmi's version of that song much better. And if you have to sak, forget it. Im hoping Deneb carries a few surprises (positive ones) with it, , for AMDs sake. Maybe a lil better IPC than we think would be nice, wouldnt have to be alot, but instead of 5-7%, maybe 9-11%

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Maybe 4% overall ... maybe.

Increased clockspeed yes.

It all depends on whether the cache latency problems are sorted.

Still .. that leaves it just a tad slower than the current 45nm Penryn.

If it is priced well people will buy it I spose.

i7 doesn't look a good jump for me going from an overclocked Kenty.

So I won't be wasting money on it till some decent gamins software starts to make good use of the extra cores ... that are currently just sitting there doing stuff all add to the power bill.

Now a decent optimised dual core 45nm upgrade ofthe Turion Ultra might be a good next step for AMD.

Look how well the 45nm Intel Dual cores run most stuff now ... good value if you ask me.

Good on power ... good on performance.

AMD needs a decent dual core first.

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I agree, AMDs lack of a true and great dual has hurt them, forgoing a whole segment. Its like nVidia currently, having the old G90s series tide them over til who lnow? the old 65 K8s the same thing, bad ideas, and nothing new, while others pass them by.

Im still looking hopefully at i7 as a good performer with next gen gpus. With what weve seen in dual gpu setups, maybe the faster next gen of cards will benefit as well, or maybe its just a multi card thing. From what Ive seen, the explanations as to why i7 is doing so well in CF/SLI just isnt enough, Im thinking being just a lil faster is helping alot more than we think, but time will tell, when the new cards come out

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Maybe another die shrink for those poor k8s... might break it by raw clockspeed then,

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