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Inside AMD's Phenom Architecture

Posted by samzenpus on from the behind-the-curtain dept.

An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek has uncovered some documentation which provides some details amid today's hype for AMD's announcement of its upcoming Phenom quad-core (previously code-named Agena). AMD's 10h architecture will be used in both the desktop Phenom and the Barcelona (Opteron) quads. The architecture supports wider floating-point units, can fully retire three long instructions per cycle, and has virtual machine optimizations. While the design is solid, Intel will still be first to market with 45nm quads (the first AMD's will be 65nm). Do you think this architecture will help AMD regain the lead in its multicore battle with Intel?"

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  1. Core 2 Duo was 1996? by stevedcc · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This article seems to be trying to rewrite history:

    Intel was seen as recovering the advantage when its introduced its Core 2 Duo family in mid 1996.

    Amazing that, a 10 year lead on dual core parts!

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    1. Re:Core 2 Duo was 1996? by hexed_2050 · · Score: 0, Redundant

      From the Article:

      However, the dual-core duel became, and remains a performance battle. AMD was widely perceived to have taken an initial lead. Intel was seen as recovering the advantage when its introduced its Core 2 Duo family in mid 1996.
      Wow, dual cores in 1996! Let's review history...
      1994: Macintoshes using the PowerPC start shipping.
      1994: Intel introduces the 486DX4 clock-tripling microprocessor.
      1995: IBM announces 1 million copies OS/2.
      1995: Windows 95 is released with no small fanfare 1 million copies sold through retail in first 4 days.

      1996: Intel introduced its Core 2 Duo family!

      1997: Intel announces 200-MHz Pentium MMX
      1998: First FAT32 operating system MS windows 98 released

      hmm... something is wrong here.
      h

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  2. Re:Core 2 Duo? by hexed_2050 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    From the Article:

    However, the dual-core duel became, and remains a performance battle. AMD was widely perceived to have taken an initial lead. Intel was seen as recovering the advantage when its introduced its Core 2 Duo family in mid 1996.

    Wow, dual cores in 1996! Let's review history...

    1994: Macintoshes using the PowerPC start shipping.
    1994: Intel introduces the 486DX4 clock-tripling microprocessor.
    1995: IBM announces 1 million copies OS/2.
    1995: Windows 95 is released with no small fanfare 1 million copies sold through retail in first 4 days.

    1996: Intel introduced its Core 2 Duo family!

    1997: Intel announces 200-MHz Pentium MMX
    1998: First FAT32 operating system MS windows 98 released

    hmm... something is wrong here.

    h -- I think I'll be a geek this week

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