AMD's Next Generation Processor Technology

Esekla writes "AMD has released info about their upcoming processor technology. The press release claims that they're producing circuits that run 30% faster than any other published benchmarks using "Fully Depleted" Silicon-on-Insulator and AMD's metal gating technology and actually has a good bit of technical detail for a press release."

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[Raul654]

While your theory would seem true on its face, you have run straight into Gates' Law: software will exponentially decrease in effective speed while exponentially increasing in install size, effectively canceling the more troubling consequences of Moore's law. This, as you can imagine, means that compile times would stay about the same. So don't get too excitied about seeing your friends more just yet.

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[Divide By Zero]

software will exponentially decrease in effective speed while exponentially increasing in install size, effectively canceling the more troubling consequences of Moore's law.

Commonly paraphrased as "Andy gives me power, Bill takes it away, Andy gives me power, Bill takes it away." Except in this case, it might be Hector instead of Andy, but you get the idea.

Yeah, sure, you can run it twice as fast, but the current version's bloated to effectively halve its speed. Sure, Windows 3.1 will blaze, but Windows $MOST_RECENT will -require- all that horsepower.