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AMD Reveals Plans to Move Beyond the Core Race

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the eye-to-the-future dept.

J. Dzhugashvili writes "The Tech Report has caught wind of AMD's plans for processors over the coming years. Intel may be counting on cramming 'tens to hundreds' of cores in future CPUs, but AMD thinks the core race is just a repeat of the megahertz race that took place a few years ago. Instead, AMD is counting on Accelerated Processing Units, chips that mix and match general-purpose CPU cores with dedicated application processors for graphics and other tasks. In the meantime, AMD is cooking up some new desktop and mobile processors that it hopes will give Intel a run for its money."

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  1. Re: Alternative CPU vendors by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am due to get my Last of the Windows line XP machine real soon. (I saw an announcement about Intel's successor to Kentsfield, so I have to get the specs on that.) My purchase timeframe for this is rather tight.

    This will be the last Windows machine I will buy, and I plan to let it do its thing in the corner running specialized apps forever until the circuits fuse.

    I will be going into a purchase freeze to let "everything else" sort itself out to see "who's on top in 2010 and beyond". I suspect by that point AMD will have caught up to their 2006 projection, and whatever that machine becomes, it will likely have an AMD chip.

    I will shortly become a Thundering Newbie with my first Linux box. This will be dirt cheap so I can proceed to make mistakes with less fear of risking serious money. I'm sure someone will howl at some of my posts.

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    My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
  2. Re: Alternative CPU vendors by westlake · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I will be going into a purchase freeze to let "everything else" sort itself out to see "who's on top in 2010 and beyond"

    Buy now and the Vista upgrade will be free. You may want that DVD.

    I'll take the odds that in 2010 Vista will be dominant in the home market and growing very strong elsewhere.

    That anything in free and open source of interest to end users will be ported to Vista or begin as native Vista applications. That anything in hardware of interest to end users will be shaped by Vista.