AMD Going Dual-Core In 2005

gr8_phk writes "We recently learned of Intel's plans to go dual-core in late 2005. Well it seems AMD has decided to follow suit. It should be noted that the K8 architecture has had this designed in from the start. Will this be socket 939 or should I try to hold out another year to buy?"

Comments

Why not quad core?

[leonbrooks]

If more is better, why not proliferate cores like crazy?

Re:Why not quad core?

[Haydn Fenton]

2's company, 3's a crowd, and 4 is for the fat cats who wipe their ass with 50 dollar bills.

Re:Why not quad core?

[k4_pacific]

This could ultimately lead to a reformulation of Moore's Law. Thus, I propose k4_pacific's hypothesis:

The number of processor cores doubles every eighteen months.

Re:Why not quad core?

[afidel]

That's funny Moore's Law says that the number of transistors per area will tend to double every (18 or 24 months depending on which part of Gordon Moore's career you listen to him). More cores per chip with better processes does nothing to stop this progression.

Re:Why not quad core?

[Fulcrum of Evil]

You mean 8 [and not 4?]. This is a computer, you're legally bound to use a power of 2.

And this got a 5 insightful, how?

Demise of processors predicted!

[ackthpt]

As the number of pins continues to increase the mass does also, at some point processors will achieve such a large mass they will collapse in upon themselves.

actually it'll probably be more like the processors gets so big that you just clip things onto the outside of it and it takes the place of the motherboard.

Re:Demise of processors predicted!

[ocelotbob]

The New AMD Blackholeteron processor! It really sucks!

Re:Demise of processors predicted!

[Anonymous Coward]

As the number of pins continues to increase the mass does also, at some point processors will achieve such a large mass they will collapse in upon themselves.

Nope. that's where the heat comes in. As they get larger they'll also get hotter. The heat will cause an internal pressure that will counterballance its own gravetational attraction.

Eventually fusion will occur and the power supply can be moved on chip also.

What AMD is really doing

[bugnuts]

They're making the first Desktop Fusion Unit!

A year?

[aardvarkjoe]

"Will this be socket 939 or should I try to hold out another year to buy?"

You're planning on waiting more than a full year between computer upgrades? Are you sure you're on the right website?

What we really need...

[rewt66]

is dilithium cores!

yes

[StandardDeviant]

MSFT, Oracle, and others already argue that.

The commercial software vendors may be slovenly
about keeping up with security patches, but they
jump on extra money like rabid ferrets on raw meat.

This really sucks.

[HotNeedleOfInquiry]

Now I'll have to pay SCO $1,149 instead of $699.

Yeah, right

Damnit, they had to come out with this

[foidulus]

Just when I thought I had saved up enough money between upgrades to splurge on those fancy ramen noodles, you know, the one with the dried peas, this comes along.
Hey, Wal-Mart brand noodles are only 8 cents!

Longhorn

[colonslashslash]

"We recently learned of Intel's plans to go dual-core in late 2005. Well it seems AMD has decided to follow suit."

Its amusing to watch the chip manufacturers scramble desperately to meet the recommend specifications for Longhorn in time.

Oh, c'mon don't look at me like that. A slashdot story without some kind of Microsoft snipe just wouldn't be the same now, would it?

Alright, fine. I'll pick on SCO or AdTi next time. Sheesh. /me crawls back under his rock

Re:Just get...

[JWSmythe]

We've had an internal joke in the office for years, that our in-house distribution should be named "Pornix". We think if it sold at $40, and included a one month membership to a couple of our adult sites, we'd make a fortune. :)

And with all of that processing power....

[ShatteredDream]

I will finally be able to run Linux in VMWare with a VMWare instance running Windows98 running Bochs running BeOS emulating OSX with PearPC. Thank you AMD, you have guaranteed me alpha male status in the CS department for a semester.

Re:AMD K9 barks up the wrong branch (prediction)?

[ebrandsberg]

If they waited for K9, then they wouldn't have any bark left in their bite. You have to throw them a bone for putting Intel in the dog house.

Re:Just get...

[Tsiangkun]

Genome assembly, annotation pipelines,comparitive genomics, live video aquisition and encoding, image deconvolution.

Re:should I try to hold out another year to buy?

[ceswiedler]

and you can spend the money you saved on your significant other!

Signifigant other...you mean my laptop?