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Into the Core - Intel's New Core CPU

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-hard-core dept.

Tyler Too writes "Hannibal over at Ars Technica has an in-depth look at Intel's new Core processors. From the article: 'In a time when an increasing number of processors are moving away from out-of-order execution (OOOE, or sometimes just OOO) toward in-order, more VLIW-like designs that rely heavily on multithreading and compiler/coder smarts for their performance, Core is as full-throated an affirmation of the ongoing importance of OOOE as you can get.'"

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  1. and this is why... by escay · · Score: 5, Funny
    overheard at the intel core processor design lab:

    "Brian, there's a message in my cereal! it says OOO..."

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  2. Out-of-Order Operation Handling And High Hopes by digitaldc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you think that when we open up a new Apple(TM), we will find a Core(TM)?

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  3. Re:Hey Wait by G)-(ostly · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just for that, I'm never buying Intel again either.

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  4. OOO? What about AAH? by m4c+north · · Score: 2, Funny

    and for the dyslexics out there: AAH and OOO

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  5. New Intel marketing slogan? by MECC · · Score: 4, Funny


    "You can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Core!"

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  6. Re:AMD Vs Intel: Round 8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Actually, the problem is probably in the chipset, rather than the processor. Old AMD-compatible chipsets were really flakey and full of incompatibilities (I remember way back when getting an nvidia card to work on AMD was a crapshoot... and only now are there nforce chipsets for intel ;) Not just AMD's own chipsets, but chipsets by via etc, for amd processors were pretty bad.

    My own motherboard (I think its around 4-5 years old) uses the AMD768, which has a known errata, which paraphrased, reads like this: "AMD768 occasionally fucks up. We don't know why, and we can't fix it, but we've got a machine with a PS/2 mouse here that it's never happened to." Sure enough, I plug in an old ps/2 mouse (it now hangs from the back, i still use my usb mouse) and the hard locks and drive corruption that would happen every few days if I didn't reboot the machine nightly hasn't happened since.