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AMD Preparing To Give Intel a Run For Its Money

Posted by Soulskill on from the saddle-up dept.

jfruh writes: "AMD has never been able to match Intel for profits or scale, but a decade ago it was in front on innovation — the first to 1GHz, the first to 64-bit, the first to dual core. A lack of capital has kept the company barely holding on with cheap mid-range chips since; but now AMD is flush with cash from its profitable business with gaming consoles, and is preparing an ambitious new architecture for 2016, one that's distinct from the x86/ARM hybrid already announced."

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  1. Re:Only the great Master of Paper can save AMD by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Informative

    I bought the first X2 Athlon series, what a beast that was.

    Sadly that was also the last AMD CPU I've purchased.

    The Phenom II X3 was also an absolute monster for the price, as was the Phenom II X6.

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  2. Re:Just like Bulldozer? by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not the architecture, that belongs to Intel, AMD extended it to support 64 bits.

    What are you on about? amd64 is not an architecture, nor is x86. They are instruction sets. The underlying architecture may be informed by the instruction set, but it's also only loosely coupled in modern CPUs.

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    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"