AMD Releases Image of Phenom/Barcelona Die

MojoKid writes "A few weeks ago, AMD released information on new branding for their desktop derivatives of the Barcelona core, now dubbed the Phenom FX, X4 and X2. If you're unfamiliar with Phenom, the processors will be based on AMD's K10 architecture. They've been tight lipped about specifics, but we know that it will feature a faster on-die memory controller, support 64-bit and 128-bit SSE operations, and they'll be outfitted with 2MB of on-chip L2 cache (512KB dedicated per core) in addition to 2MB of shared L3 cache. This week, instead of revealing some more of the juicy details regarding those enhancements, AMD just sent over a tasty photo of a Phenom die. At least it's something."

Comments

Re:wow a photo

[farkus888]

well marketing now tells us the number of cores is the only important factor in performance. this has 4, most desktop pc processors are 2 right now, that makes it exactly twice as fast as current processors.

Re:wow a photo

[luder]

Well, if I understood correctly, it still has overheating issues, as they're only capable of delivering a photo of a dead processor. Also, on a side note, isn't it funny that there's a website specially dedicated to hot hardware?

WTF?

[GreatBunzinni]

Photos of processor dies? WTF is this? Some kind of porn for uber-geeks?

Today's processor marketing explained to geek

[DrYak]

sed " s/number of GHz/number of cores/ " marketing.txt

Re:Today's processor marketing explained to geek

[pakar]

So soon we will have 10^9 cores..

Don't even wanna think about the overhead for checking locks :)

Danger! Danger!

[eebra82]

Now that AMD released high-res pictures of this core, Epson can use their transistor printers we have read about and start selling this CPU ahead of AMD. Good job, AMD!

Re:Direct links to JPEGs

[instanto]

I am thinking Sim City when I see this

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/Digit alMedia/43263A_hi_res.jpg

Looks like the industry areas are quite big, wonder how the pollution in that city is.

No fires though, so that is a good thing.

Re:Hype it up

[GweeDo]

Yup, that is why I buy AMD CPU's...they are so fun!

MMMM... Breakfast is computing

[failedlogic]

These multi-core CPUs are a great direction for the industry. The real question is, when is the 10 CPU processor coming out?

I think this will be a great option for people who get in early at the office. The original Pentium is able to cook an egg on top of the CPU. With 4 cores comes complete breakfast for one person: 2 eggs and 2 toast. I suppose the real key is a workgroup CPU with 10 cores would be useful each is used to cook in total 4 eggs, 4 toast and 2 cups of coffee (you do have to feed your co-worker ... I think).

Nooo... Not a new hype word!!!

[LWATCDR]

Okay I really like my AMD system but they need to be slapped hard for inventing a new goofy marketing term.
MEGATASKING.
Dude if you have over a 1024 tasks running at once you need to run some malware clean up software.

Re:Nooo... Not a new hype word!!!

[forkazoo]

Okay I really like my AMD system but they need to be slapped hard for inventing a new goofy marketing term.
MEGATASKING.
Dude if you have over a 1024 tasks running at once you need to run some malware clean up software.

My friend, you fail to appreciate the lunacy of the intricacies of marketing. That which you have described would, in fact, be merely kilotasking.

whip

[Jeek Elemental]

put the photo in L1 cache to send a not-so-subtle message to your cpu

Re:Finally

[Just Some Guy]

It's about effing time... maybe chip manufacturers have finally clued in that cache is the single biggest characteristic of a processor that affects (NOT impacts) performance.

Tell me about it. Those jackass chip hackers at Intel and AMD have been ignoring my advice for years in favor of their own cost/benefit analysis and engineering tradeoffs. If only they'd listen to us expects on Slashdot, there's no telling what they could accomplish!