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AMD Roadmap for Coming Year and Beyond

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the never-a-good-time-to-buy dept.

nexex writes: "With a new year comes new products, and AMD certainly has some new toys for us to drool over. The first of 2002 will see the release of "Thoroughbred," a version of the Athlon XP chip made on the more advanced 130-nanometer manufacturing process. The chip will cover 80 square millimeters in area, or 65 percent of the space of the "Northwood" Pentium 4 coming from Intel in early January. That chip measures 116 square millimeters, according to AMD estimates. For more, including info on Clawhammer, Sledgehammer, and all the Intel bashing you can handle, see here." I hope they don't really mean that "these new chips will also consume less heat than current AMD notebooks chips."

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  1. amd roadmap: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    the roadmap passes from my belly-button, past my pubs and straight to...

    you guessed it...

    my balls.

    Cherish my balls!

    oh, and fp BITCHES

    1. Re:amd roadmap: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Goddammit! If you're going to be crude, at least get the spelling of "pube" right!

      p.s. you must have no dick, because you went from your pubes "straight to" your balls.

  2. AMD Processor Code Names by Fucky+Badger · · Score: 1, Troll
    When did they transistion from code-naming their CPU cores after cars (Thunderbird, Mustang), to using names of horses (Mustang, Palomino, Thoroughbred)?

    Have to say I like horses better than rivers in No-Cal and Oregon.

  3. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FP!

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  5. Superior technology means nothing in the market by Walter+Bell · · Score: 2, Troll

    These new chips coming from AMD are nothing short of amazing. While Intel struggles with their attempts to force a slower, proprietary memory architecture on PC users and push a weaker processing architecture, AMD is leading the market and producing technology that is faster, more reliable, and cheaper.

    Unfortunately for AMD, better technology often loses to superior marketing forces. Several of my friends went to work for Dell after graduation, and they told me that their employer is not going to be supporting these new AMD offerings out of allegiance to Intel. Dell (and many other manufacturers, such as Gateway) are afraid of Intel cutting them out of the loop when supplies are tight so they give AMD second-rate status or drop support altogether. The problem also exists that many customers buy Intel exclusively, despite its low performance/price ratio.

    The future isn't nearly as bright for AMD and TMTA as it should be. If our government actually punished companies for anticompetitive practices, things would be different. Maybe in 2004 it will be a priority for the new administration. But I am not holding my breath.

    ~walter

  6. Beat this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Die trolls!

    -- the anti-troll masquerader troll

  7. Re:ALERT!ALERT!ALERT!ALERT! by recursiv · · Score: 0, Troll

    So what do you think is for the intelligent?
    A while back hotmail.com(!) actually expired.

    --
    I used to bulls-eye womp-rats in my pants
  8. MacOSX is not UNIX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    ...Unless you meant G4's running YellowDog.

    G4s are easily smoked by Sun Ultras, Alphas (even old 21164a Alphas), HP-PA's, and RS/6000s.

    Further, OSX isnt really UNIX, the BSD bits are bolted on -- and the OS itself is slow and inefficent compared to Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64, Linux or any of the monolithic BSDs.

    Macs are piss poor "unix" boxes.

  9. Re:They need way better motherboard support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have to completely agree with you on serveral of your points, however I have to wonder about the overclock aspect, for in my experience, Intel Pentium processors have always been more troublesome than AMDs. Maybe I just get my clocking procedures from more qualified people with AMD than with Intel, but I've been comfortably running my 850 Athlon at slightly over 1G for almost a year without a hitch, but have never successfully pushed a PIII or P4 more than 50 MHz. It may also be my MB matchups...in my current Athlon at home I am using a VIA KT...I've only used what I had available to me for the Intels.

  10. Palomino by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, horses have big dicks but that doesn't make them sensitive lovers... too bad your mom had to learn that the hard way.