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AMD's Showcases Quad-Core Barcelona CPU

Posted by Zonk on from the four-times-the-fun dept.

Gr8Apes writes "AMD has showcased their new 65nm Barcelona quad-core CPU. It is labeled a quad-core Opteron, but according to Infoworld's Tom Yeager, is really a redefinition of x86. Each core has a new vector math processing unit (SSE128), separate integer and floating point schedulers, and new nested paging tables (to vastly improve hardware virtualization). According to AMD, the new vector math units alone should improve floating point operation by 80%. Some analysts are skeptical, waiting for benchmarks. Will AMD dethrone Intel again? Only time will tell."

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  1. Re:grandparent was interesting, your comment isn't by drgonzo59 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    ...the conversation started on the theoretical limits of computation.

    Mr. Coward, in case you have not read the article, the conversation actually is about AMD's new processor, which is a real processor. That processor will generate some amount of heat ... real heat, not theoretical heat.

    A few years ago people would've ...

    What are you referring to? I never mentioned OOP, relativity, or satalites (sic) in my post.

    To be fair, I suspect that the resulting information from the computation itself carries... well... information.

    You are a coward but at least you are fair, that's good to know. A fair coward is better than a regular, run-of-the-mill coward, at least in my book. Yes, information carries information. Do you want a Nobel prize for that? O perhaps an honorary PhD degree?

    All good computer scientists know information has a direct corolation (sic) to entropy

    And even better computer scientists know how to spell, or at least use a spell checker.

    It seems like you need to listen to your own advice and : quit pointlessly spewing shit at people who have useful things to say.