Obniżka cen AMD Phenom X4. 100€ a może nawet taniej

AMD po raz kolejny obniża ceny swoich produktów, tym razem padło na procesory pierwszej generacji Phenom X4. Pierwszy raz w historii pułap cenowy procesorów cztero-rdzeniowych spadł do poziomu 100 Euro (serwis Fudzilla wspomina nawet o 94€). Procesor który zakupimy za wyżej wspomnianą kwotę to Phenom X4 9600 Black Edition z zegarem taktowanym 2.3 GHz.

Procesor produkowany w procesie technologicznym Agena 65nm charakteryzuje się współczynnikiem TDP 95W. Dla porównania najtańszy czterorzędowiec Intela kosztuje około 130 Euro.

AMD Phenom 9500 (2.2GHz, OEM)

Die Linie der Phenom-Prozessoren von AMD ist Teil des neuen Spider-Plattform. Diese Plattform wurde im November 2007, und der Zweck dahinter ist es, das ultimative HD-Performance-Plattform. Es gibt drei Teile auf die Plattform, die AMD fordert Segmente. Sie sind wie folgt.

• ATI Radeon ™ HD 3800 Grafikkarten-Serie
• AMD Phenom ™ Prozessoren
• AMD 7-Series-Chipsätze

Diese Gruppe von Hardware ist zu bemerken, von AMD, die "Die Plattform für PC-Gamer-, Medien-und Content-Ersteller-Enthusiasten und PC-Enthusiasten." Dies geschieht durch die "Plattform Nachrüstbarkeit und Anpassung, führende Leistung und Bandbreite, um der nächsten Generation HD Erfahrungen, und der Industrie-führenden Plattform-Performance pro Watt für die Flexibilität und Kopffreiheit. "Wo der Phenom passt in dieser Ziele stellt eine energieeffiziente, echte Quad-Core-Prozessor.

Von jetzt an, viele von uns wissen, was bei der Einführung der Spider Plattform und der Phenom-Prozessoren. Dort sahen wir einige erste betrifft die Leistung im Vergleich Uhr-für-Uhr mit gleichwertigen Intel Silizium. Dieses Problem wurde durch ein Erratum auf der B2 Stepping des Phenom-Prozessor (der Schritt, die derzeit im Handel erhältlich) mit der Übersetzung Lookaside Buffer (TLB). Diese Frage könnte zu Datenverlust oder Verlust in bestimmten Szenarien Leistung; Szenarien, die selten auf dem Desktop. Allerdings wurde eine Korrektur in Form eines BIOS-Optimierung, sondern die Leistung einer anderen treffen.

Die Phenom Start war nicht ohne seine helle Flecken. In erster Linie war es die Tatsache, dass der Phenom wäre der erste echte Quad-Core-Prozessor, mit allen vier Adern werden auf der gleichen sterben. Die andere Seite und kam in der Form eines Heck von einem Olivenzweig von AMD, in Form eines Multiplikator UNLOCKED "Black Edition" des Phenom 9600. Wir haben nur diese eine Kreatur für eine Überprüfung. Hier laufen die Daten der für die Linie der Phenom-Prozessoren. Technische Daten können natürlich auch gefunden werden, um die Produkt-Seite.

• Die Industrie der ersten echten x86 Quad-Core-Prozessor
• AMD64 mit Direct Connect Architektur
• AMD Balanced Smart Cache
• AMD Wide Floating Point Accelerator
• HyperTransport ™ Technologie
• Integrated DDR2 DRAM-Controller mit AMD Memory Optimizer Technology
• AMD Virtualization ™ (AMD-V ™) mit Rapid Virtualization Indexing
• AMD Cool'n'Quiet ™ 2.0 Technologie
• AMD CoolCore ™ Technologie
• Dual Dynamic Power Management ™

Der Phenom 9600 Black Edition ist auf 2.3GHz getaktet, Sport und alle diese Funktionen bereits erwähnt. Auch mit seinen freigeschaltet Multiplikator, es kommt immer noch in einem sehr günstigen Preis. Bei vielen Händlern können Sie Phenom 9600 Black Edition Einheiten Preis nur $ 10 - $ 20 mehr als die Standard-Phenom 9600 Kollegen. Nun ist für viele noch immer zu fragen, wie viel von einer Aufführung auf den TLB-Erratum Festsetzung des Phenom ist. Wir wollen herausfinden, mit dem Prozessor, und sehen, wie weit können wir die Push-Silizium mit einigen guten alten Zeiten overclocking.

AMD goes where Intel isn't: Mobile phone processors

AMD is doing something Intel can't do: compete in the massive mobile phone market. AMD processors and mobile graphics technology were disclosed at the 2008 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday.

AMD Imageon chip and concept device

(Credit: AMD)

The Imageon A250 applications processor is used for video recording/playback and photo imaging, among other applications, and can be programmed for multimedia and high-level graphics, referred to as vector graphics.

The Imageon D160 mobile TV solution is a hardware and software package that allows mobile phone makers to receive over-the-air broadcast TV signals in a USB-powered device. The chipmaker also introduced the Imageon M210 audio processor for high-definition audio.

AMD is also offering graphics technology separately. The company's Z460 3D graphics taps into the same patented AMD Unified Shader Architecture that provides a graphics platform for the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game system, AMD said. Shaders are used for rendering 3D objects. AMD Z180 graphics technology is targeted at navigational systems and portable devices designed to handle animation, mapping, and Flash-style content. The Z180 features a native hardware-accelerated vector graphics solution, designed to render graphics between 20 and 40 times faster than software-based solutions.

The Imageon technology announced in Barcelona is a refresh of technology announced about a year ago, said AMD spokesperson Jo Albers, and came to AMD when it purchased ATI Technology back in 2006. AMD's strategy in this respect has differed dramatically from Intel's. The latter offloaded its handheld processor business to Marvell Technology around the same time that AMD purchased ATI. Intel is now trying to get back into the ultramobile game with Silverthorne (due later this year) but that processor, though small and relatively power efficient, is too power-hungry for compact mobile phones (though conceivably Silverthorne could be used in iPhone-like devices).

Imageon chips are currently used in over 50 mobile phones and devices from companies like Motorola, LG, Panasonic, and Samsung. And AMD offers graphics technology to Freescale Semiconductor, Qualcomm, and STMicroelectronics, among others.

The new chips, however, won't appear in products until the end of this year or next year because of the length of the design cycles, AMD said.
In related news, STMicroelectronics is using AMD technology in its application processors. The STMicroelectronics Nomadik STn8820 multimedia application processor is based on an ARM 1176 core and can achieve speeds as fast as 528 MHz. The processor integrates AMD's graphics technology for 2D and 3D applications, STMicro said

AMD Spider: Phenom processors, 7-Series chipsets, etc.

Today, AMD has officially announced its new platform for desktop PCs codenamed AMD Spider. Last week, we already covered the theoretical and practical capabilities of one of the key components of this platform – video cards - in AMD Radeon HD 3800 Series. Tests of the "low-end" HD3850. At last, it's high time we unveil the shroud of secrecy from the remaining components of the Spider platform – processors of the AMD Phenom line and AMD 7-Series family chipsets.

Our report of AMD's new components for desktop PCs will be divided into two logical parts. The thing is, last week AMD held a special conference in Warsaw as part of the presentation of the Spider platform, where a correspondent of 3DNews was present. So today we'll be talking about the theoretical part only – general specifications of the new platform, details of the architecture of new components, declared performance, and prices. Some time later, we'll publish another material that includes an "outside broadcast", as well as results of the first practical tests of the AMD Spider platform. We'll present extended tests some time later once all the components of AMD Spider are at the disposal of the 3DNews test lab.

AMD Spider: general specifications

While presenting new technologies to the wide audience, AMD is focusing solely on the platform-specific nature of the innovations. The key component of the Spider platform are multi-core AMD Phenom processors (up to 4-core) manufactured following the 65-nm process technologies and are aimed at operation with Socket AM2+motherboards. Along with these, the Spider platform includes a new generation of AMD 7 Series chipsets for building motherboards with support for CrossFireX and AMD OverDrive technologies, as well as graphics of the ATI Radeon HD 3800 family with support for Microsoft DirectX 10.1.

If we discard the verbosity of press releases, the major innovation implemented in the AMD Spider platform is the considerable reduction on the "performance per watt" parameter mainly due to the power-saving 65-nm design of AMD Phenom processors, 65-nm of AMD 7-Series chipsets, and 55-nm graphic chips of the ATI Radeon HD 3800 family. Along with that, AMD Spider offers support for a number of specific power-saving technologies: ATI PowerPlay, Cool’n’Quiet 2.0, Microsoft DirectX 10.1, HyperTransport 3.0, and PCI Express 2.0. In particular, Cool’n’Quiet 2.0 allows reducing the power consumption of AMD Phenom processors of TDP 95 W up to the average 32 W in household and average 29 W in commercial applications. At the same time, the AMD CoolCore technology implemented in AMD 7-Series technologies provides operation of the processor cores at various frequencies and, therefore, reduction of power consumption, with the TDP of the chipsets is about 10-12 W on average.

Another innovation of the AMD Spider platform is its substantial scalability unprecedented for solutions on the base of AMD processors. For instance, motherboards based on AMD 7-Series chipsets, due to the ATI CrossFireX technology and support for 42 PCI Express bus lanes, are able operating three or four ATI Radeon HD 3800 graphic cards.

On the whole, it is assumed that the AMD Spider platform in future will be the basis for most varied AMD LIVE! systems – desktop and portable PCs, home-based servers and family digital entertainment centers, etc. One of the major marketing ideas the AMD Spider platform is promoted is in the full-featured support for HD video.

Since we sorted out with the capabilities of ATI Radeon HD 3800 graphics in general last week, today, to get a full idea of the AMD Spider platform, we should look closely at the specifications of new AMD Phenom processors and AMD 7-Series chipsets. Let's go on step by step.

AMD Phenom processors for desktop PCs

From the architectural viewpoint of AMD processors, new 4-core Phenom chips for desktop PCs made on the base of the Stars architecture (Agena core) are the "closest relatives" to new 4-core AMD Opteron server processors based on the Barcelona core.

In full analogy with the Barcelona core, the Stars architecture offers a 128-bit memory controller with support for up to DDR2-1066, which is also able operating in the 2-channel 64-bit mode for independent memory write/read operations. The physical address space has gone up to 48 bit, with the memory support rose to 256 TB.

Each of the four cores of the Phenom processor has its own 64 K L1 cache memory for instructions and 64 K L1 memory for data, which in the total makes 512 K L1 memory per processor. The total L2 cache memory size makes 2 MB, i.e. 512 K per each core. Apart from that, the Barcelona and Stars architectures imply availability of 2 MB L3 cache memory. Unlike L1 and L2 cache memory, exclusive for each core, the L3 cache memory is distributed dynamically among all the cores.

Among the key specifications inherent to the new 4-core Phenom processors, we should mention the following key functional capabilities:

• New floating-point task scheduler which now supports 36 new 128-bit operations
• Support for 128-bit SSE operations that have emerged in addition to the capabilities of the former 64-bit architecture
• Processing two SSE operations and one SSE transition per cycle
• The instruction fetch module buffer has turned 32-byte (used to be 16-byte)
• Branching executable with 512-move prediction of indirect branches
• Data cache performance has been increased from one 64-bit loading per cycle to 128-bit loading per cycle
• Data cache performance of the L2 cache memory performance has been increased from 64-bit loading per cycle to 128-bit loading per cycle
• HyperTransport 3.0 implementation has allowed to increase the bandwidth to 20.8 GB/s
• AMD Virtualization Technology implementation with the Rapid Page Indexing

Besides, we should also mention support for the system of clock speed dynamic control per each core that has emerged in Phenom processors. Since the architecture does not allow adjusting the power supply voltage for each core in the independent mode, additional power supply is provided through reduction of the clock speed for each core in the idle mode.

Along with that, additional power-saving is provided by the AMD CoolCore technology that allows disabling unused functional modules of the core. There is also the Dual Dynamic Power Management technology which allows setting independent voltage levels for the CPU core and the integrated memory controller. The additional AMD Wideband Frequency Control feature provides the most efficient power consumption mode preserving the performance as the performance modes change. Finally, the Multi-Point Thermal Control technology that functions due to thermal sensors integrated into the core allows for thermal protection of the chip through tracking the temperature level and automatic reduction of the performance to reasonable temperature limits.

Among the other power-saving technologies, we should also note the C1E power supply mode which is enabled once all the core chips of the core are switched to the standby mode. In so doing, the HyperTransport bus is disabled, the memory switches to the reduced power consumption mode, with the internal clock speeds of the CPU substantially go down. Of interest is also the Processor Power Saving Indicator feature that reports to the voltage regulator of the load reduction, as well as provides support for voltage regulators with PSI. Along with retention of the inverse compatibility of AMD Phenom processors with VID-control of AM2 boards, the new serial system for VID-control provides 7-bit precision of voltage adjustment (in 12.5 mV increments).

The below screenshot depicts the key differences and similarities of the previous AM2 platform, the newly-born AM2+, and the future AM3.

Let's draw a line under this brief specifications of new Phenom processors. All the new chips are manufactured at the AMD Fab 36 in Dresden, Germany, using 65-nm process technology and using the SOI (Silicon on Insulator) technology. Each 4-core processor contains about 463 mln transistors, with the chip area being 285 mm2. All the new Phenom processors are produced in 940-pin Organic micro-PGA (micro Pin Grid Array) packages and can be used with Socket AM2+ motherboards. The nominal supply voltage of the core is 1.1 – 1.25 V, the maximum temperature 70°C; the TDP is rated at 95 W. With its official press release, AMD announced the start of delivery of two Phenom processors. Phenom 9600 (clock speed 2.3 GHz), Phenom 9500 (clock speed 2.2 GHz) are shipped at the price $283 and $251 in wholesale lots starting with 1000 pcs. Judging by the data of the company's presentation, in about early next year there will appear AMD Phenom 9700 which, along with the higher clock speed, will stand out for higher TDP. The below table presents the specifications of all the three chips.

The new Phenom chips are positioned among the other AMD processor lines in the following way:

New AMD 7 Series chipsets for desktop PCs

The next component of the new AMD Spider platform is the line of AMD 7 Series chipsets which currently includes the most powerful AMD 790FX version, a version for mass PCs - AMD 790X, as well as the value-sector version AMD 770.

All the three chipsets are made following the 65-nm process technology norms with SOI and, according to the representatives of AMD, offer twice as less power consumption versus the previous generation of AMD chipsets. The TDP for the "higher-end" chipset 790FX is declared at the level 10 W.

For visual experience, we found it more appropriate to gather the key specifications of the three chipsets in one table – this way it is easier to estimate the capabilities and differences of each.

Chipset	AMD 790FX	AMD 790X	AMD 770
HyperTransport 3.0	+	+	+
Auto Xpress	+	+	-
PCI Express Gen. 2.0	+	+	+
Slots for video cards	up to 4	up to 2	1
GPU-Plex Technology	+	+	-
Quad PCIE Blocks	+	+	-
ATI CrossFireX Technology	+	+	-
Backward compatibility	+	+	+
AMD OverDrive	+	+	+
AMD RAIDXpert	+	+	+

Above all, we note the key innovations and technologies implemented in AMD 7 Series:

• HyperTransport 3.0 – almost doubled performance as compared to HT1 while exchanging data between the CPU and graphics.
• Auto Xpress – a technology for high-quality performance tuning of the PC, which is enabled automatically when using AMD/ATI components and selects the optimum system settings. It also optimizes the graphic performance using AMD processors with HT1, reads the special "overclocking" settings of DIMM DDR2 modules for better memory tuning.
• PCI Express Generation 2.0 – offers the possibility to use the new generation PCI Express bus to increase performance, including that of the graphic subsystem.
• GPU-Plex Technology – a scalable technology for flexible performance tuning in systems with several video cards equipped with 2-core GPUs
• Quad PCIE Blocks – Improved interaction of CPU and GPU to reduce the memory latency and optimize the PCI-E bus bandwidth.
• ATI CrossFireX Technology – gain in performance of the graphic subsystem attained through installation of four video cards in a system.
• Backward compatibility – flexibility in building compatible platforms based on AMD Athlon and AMD Phenom chips
• AMD OverDrive – control over the extended settings of AMD 7-Series chipsets from within Microsoft Windows.
• AMD RAIDXpert – simple remote configuration of the RAID subsystem

The flagship chipset AMD 790FX is aimed at building performance high-end systems based on motherboards for AMD Socket AM2+. The chipset supports 42 PCI Express bus lanes which can be configured in any combination. Undoubtedly, most motherboards based on the 790FX chipset will offer support for the CrossFire configuration with up to four video cards; that is why 32 PCI Express buses will be wired onto PCI Express x16 slots for the graphic, with ten more buses left for the other peripherals.

Specifications of the mass AMD 790X chipset are similar enough to the capabilities of the "top-end" 790FX, except that there are fewer PCI Express buses. Therefore, unlike the 790FX which supports three or four video cards, motherboards based on 790X will provide for CrossFire operation in only the traditional mode with two video cards.

The value-sector AMD 770 chipset, in its turn, will offer support for the only video card.

It should be also noted that all the new chipsets will now be equipped with the well-known south bridge ATI SB600, however in the next year we expect a renovation in the form of SB700.

At that, we could finish with the overview of AMD's new chipsets, but for conclusion I'd like to mention a couple of points. First of all, I'd like to show you a pair of screenshots exemplifying the principles of the AMD OverDrive technology. Clearly, all that would be more appropriate for an article devoted to practical tests, but I think you won't mind that.

Lastly, the final chord: a screenshot with a list of motherboards for Socket AM2+ which are expected to arrive in the retail in the nearest future.

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Instead of final words which can't be there after dry theoretical reasoning without tests of a live system, let me point to an interesting fact. The thing is, AMD in its presentations devoted to the announcement of the AMD Spider platform, accentuates its firm intention to start delivery of all the components, including the newly announced processors, before the New Year eve. That is, the company intends to make the most of the Christmas sales.

According to the preliminary data, these plans are realistic enough for the Radeon HD 3800 family graphics. According to other indirect data already covered in our reports, the amount of AMD Phenom processors shipped before the New Year eve may amount to hundreds of thousands. Indeed, if all that goes smoothly as planned and unless the suppliers of motherboard will let us down (they normally keep their promises, provided there is enough quantity of chipsets), and if the tests show acceptable results – we can expect that AMD/ATI produce fanciers are going to have a real long-awaited festive season. Anyway, today I'd rather limit myself with this neutral observation - let's wait for the results of first tests…

AMD ushers in five new Phenom II CPUs, benchmarking ensues

Just a month after AMD launched its Phenom II CPUs and Dragon desktop platform, the chip maker is hitting back with five new processors in the quickly expanding line. The newcomers include the planet's first 45nm triple-core CPU and three more quad-core siblings, all of which can operate in either AM2+ or AM3 sockets. As for performance? We hope your expectations haven't been set too high, as the chips were generally found to be just "a logical extension of [the company's] piecemeal upgrade plan and a fill in [the] gap to its lineup." Reviewers across the web were generally pleased but underwhelmed by test results, with HotHardware noting that "overall, Intel still has the performance edge clock-for-clock and core-for-core." In fairness, these chips were found to be good for overclocking, and for the right price, we could certainly see a few gamers giving them a go. For the full spill, dive on into the deep, intricate reviews below.

AMD's triple-core Phenom II X3 goes quad-core via BIOS hack

Here's a little known secret for you to chew on: that triple-core AMD Phenom II X3 you purchased actually has four cores. The last one's just locked down for pricing purposes. A Korean site has disclosed information that enables owners of select motherboards to unlock that fourth core, and apparently, all you need is a Biostar mobo and / or a BIOS that has an option labeled Advanced Clock Calibration. When said selection is flipped to "Auto," the fourth core is loosed from its shackles and able to ever-so-slightly up your frame rates and overall level of excitement. Of course, you're taking a big risk by running a chip in a fashion it was never intended, but what fun is life without a little edge-side living?

AMD Phenom II X4 955 and 945 benchmarked to high heaven

Just when you though you'd had your fill of insanely detailed benchmarks of processors you may or may not have ever heard of, AMD's new Phenom II X4 955 and 945 hit the scene to get those overclockers all in a tizzy. The top of the line is the 955 "Black Edition" at 3.2GHz, while the 945 plays with a petty 3GHz. And the verdict? They're clearly AMD's fastest so far, but that might not be fast enough. AMD offers great value, but only really matches Intel's Core 2 offerings on performance -- Core i7 is still out in front. There is the fact that Phenom II offers a nice upgrade path for certain people who already do the AMD thing and are looking to upgrade, along with "enthusiasts" who are "enthused" by easy-access overclocking, but overall it looks like AMD is still playing catch-up with Intel.

AMD Leans On More Cores To Best Intel

Advanced Micro Devices Wednesday launched a chart of updated road of piece of waiter of Opteron in which the manufacturer of integrated circuits of fight hopes to delude with the customers of Intel with the processors which offer more cores for the male.

The executives of AMD indicated a conference of news to its Sunnyvale, California, the head offices which its six-core Opteron, Istanbul called, would be available in waiters of the computer manufacturers in June. The piece, which has two additional cores that Intel 'the last Xeon processors of S, will be available in two, four, and of the systems of eight-casing, and being lower-in compatible with casings in the systems running the processors of the present generation of Opteron.

Like Intel 'of the current processors of S Xeon, Istanbul is built using a manufacturing process of 45 nanometers. In 2010, AMD envisages to release the core eight to 12 45 processors of nanometer Magny-Course called, and into 2011,32 nanometer 12 - with 16 Interlagos pieces called of core. Magny-courses and Interlagos officially will be called Opteron the 6000 series.

The new processors will function on a new platform, Maranello called. The platform will require of a new casing to support improvements such as the support of memory DDR3 and of a new handset of chips. The platform will be available for waiters of two and four-casing.

In the same calendar, AMD envisages to release a new platform, San Marino called, for waiters one and of two-casing. The platform will support new 45 processors of six-core of the nanometer four, Lisbon called, which is placed at the boat in 2010. To 2011, AMD indicated that it envisages to release 32 the nanometer six with the processors of eight-core, Valence called, for San Marino, which will also include a new handset of chips and several of the same improvements as Maranello.

All the new processors, starting with Istanbul, will be manufactured by GlobalFoundries, a common company investment Co. between AMD and state-of-the-art technology, consisted the government of Abu Dhabi. The shareholders of AMD in February approved the additional advantage of AMD 'of operations of manufacture of S in participation in order to reduce it AMD 'costs of S and to finish if all is well the company the 'cord of S of the unfruitful quarters.

AMD 'chart of road of S reflects a strategy in which the company hopes to attract purchasers with the processors which offer more cores for harshly the same price as of the products of Intel with few cores, said John Spooner, analyst for the economic study of technology. One expects that Istanbul has the price indicated competitivement with Intel 'the last Xeon pieces of quadruple-core of S, and the processors of AMD planned for 2010 and 2011 are likely to follow the same strategy of evaluation.

It appears they 'about, of test of Intel of outside-core InformationWeek called by Spooner.

AMD launches its products multinucl�aires as a better execution of offer per Watt for the price than Intel. Moreover, more cores are better for the environments of waiter in which virtualizing technology is employed to run more economic applications with a simple computer, according to AMD.

If this proves to be true remainder to see. Spooner indicated that the companies are likely to find AMD 'offers of S enough attractive to carry out coast beside the tests of the waiters of Intel and AMD-based. Him 's always going to go down to, real reality of test it said.

AMD has need to obtain behind on way in corporation gone, where the sales were poor that, Spooner said. The company did better in the GCV of the consumer, but these hasn 't be enough. Without having the two pieces of the market, you put 't have enough of, of businesses it said.

AMD Tuesday brought back losses of widening in the first quarter, finished on March 31, because the income fell 21% to $1.8 billion. The company lost $416 million, compared with $351 million the same period one year ago. The last report/ratio follows a cord of the losses going behind more than two years.

AMD announces new Opteron EE processor

The new processor of waiter of AMD asserts the reduction of 13% of the request for power.

AMD recently announced the release of the new processor of 40W Opteron EE which will represent the lowest power loop x86 for processors of waiter of core of quadruple in the range of AMD.

The processor, which offers the saving of power of 13% in the punt power--level compared with the former generation, is conceived for the very dense environments of datacentre, specifically those found in the calculation of cloud. It also offers to consumers a full continuation of the possibilities of management of virtualisation and power.

The 45nm Opteron EE adds significant improvements of effectiveness of power above Quadruple-Core AMD Opteron IT processor in the same platform, asserting a reduction of 13% of punt power--level. To the same level of the performances, the new processor of the EE delivers up to 62% improved execution-by-Watt once compared with the former generation.

HE and the EE are conceived to reduce the load of power required by the majority of the processors of waiter while always providing the same execution. In the test with AMD a platform of waiter 2P with processors of the EE idled to 115W and only to blow 185W to any power.

Such an execution in large datacenters would reduce costs of the current considerably.

AMD Moves Up Istanbul Release to June

AMD will release its processor of Opteron of six-core in June in order to try to follow Intel rival. The new piece will come outside for five months in front of program. AMD tries to oblige its new processor to box outside inside on more than $800 billion in the expenditure stimulus government.

Answering the pressure of the competition of Intel and eager to box inside on a piece of the package of stimulus of the government $800 billion, races of AMD to obtain with its piece of Opteron of six-core outside five months in front of program.

The government of the United States was very good with AMD in the past, using the piece 64-bit of Opteron of AMD in much of deployments of high-output computer placed of the government sources. Because the legislators start to spend almost the $800 billion money of stimulus on a series of projects, the suppliers and the suppliers of solution are reduction in preparation.

According to industrial analysts, the government organizations will spend of the dollars of stimulus in new waiters, technology and giant computers of health care, great news for suppliers of solution with customers at large companies with the needs increasing for center of data processing, health care and computer high-output. The new expenditure of industry will also increase; for example, the government envisages to spend $2 billion for factories lithium-ion.

The six-core proposed Opteron, Istanbul called of AMD, was not envisaged for five more months, according to Nathan Brookwood, an industrial analyst with Insight64. But with Intel rival announcing his processor EX of Nehalem, AMD must hurry to continue.

AMD indicates it will release Istanbul in June 2009, and believes that Istanbul will maintain them in competing operation against Intel during the next year. The company believes that a processor proposed of 12 cores, Magny-Course called, in 2010 will give them an important advantage, Brookwood known as.

And it can be why Advanced Micro Devices Inc. this week indicated that it releases its piece of Opteron of six-core in June, well in front of program, and of plans to follow it to the beginning of the year next with a piece Magny-Course called which will embark in eight and 12 models of core. After that, it envisages a piece of 16 cores in 2011.

But at the same time AMD announced its new, aggressive program, the CTO Justin from Intel that Rattner was already in Washington with an INTEL-active conference, selling his company 'pieces of S.

I think that we see a certain number of occasions, and what is we try to make to raise the conscience that it is one extremely favourable moment, indicates Rattner, adding that Intel entirely realizes of the government of the 'plan of S to spend much of money in technology and is carried in balance to benefit from such occasions.

Although it is still not very clear how much federal dollars will go to technology, Rattner indicated that Intel was particularly interested by the money of stimulus aiming to seek further in the climate change using the high-output computer.

AMD heads for ‘Istanbul’ with six cores

AMD announced that it will deliver a processor of Opteron of six-core in June this year.

The company said that the processor is `called Istanbul and will offer to 30 percent more execution in the same envelope of power as the current parts of quadruple-core.

The company said that the piece will be delivered to the months of the market in front of the program. In a post of blog, John Fruehe, the director of AMD of development of the businesses for products of waiter and work station said that the reason of this that the new piece of six-core is based on, �- is strongly made a success of �Changha� � design. With a strongly powerful design of core and a 45nm very well-comprised process, the manufacture of the jump starting from core 4 with core 6 was. instantaneous

If you realize a great work on the design, and nail it to you the first time, you can shave months, or quarters, with far from the calendar of the project. Our current programs are a will with the capacities of our teams of technology around the world.�

As with the majority again processor launches nowadays, AMD indicated that Istanbul will be well adapted to the environments mutli-threaded such as the virtualisation, and as Fruehe put, this kind of use, �will be able to eat to the top of these additional cores with a smile on their face. Moreover greater levels of parallelism can help more work to obtain made simultaneously for a greater effectiveness - and we provide that it with all is possible in same the power and temperatures which you see today with �Changha��.

AMD also announced its directly bound architecture, which will allow systems with 12 cores. We can also await us so that 8-12 processors of core arrive in 2010, like Opteron 6000 series for the waiters 2P and 4P, whereas Opteron 4000 series is planned for 2010 for the systems 1P and 2P with four and the processors of six-core.

Also indicated have is plans of transformer technology 32nm, with 12-16 processors of core in the drain. Called, the �bulldozer�, the pieces are programmed for 2011 and will be constant on the platform of �Maranello�. 6 a piece of the core 32nm, called weill of Valence of `� accompany it, and will function in �platform of San Marino�.

AMD releases low-power Opterons

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) released a new whole of processors of Opteron of quadruple-core, called , of Changha� this use less power than of other models in the current line of Will choose,

The series of Opteron EE is one of low the powerbands of processor of waiter of the quadruple-core x86 on the market, Margaret says Lewis, director of the commercial solutions for AMD. They were developed to satisfy the customer requirements who has the very dense environments of calculation.

The pieces can be adapted particularly well to the waiters which make tasks such as the accomodating Web site and opacify calculation, the company said.

Lewis said that a processor of Opteron EE will only draw, on average, 40 Watts per hour, although this evaluation is based on AMD 's have the average power of central processing unit of treatment (ACP) metric, rather than on the industrially compatible thermal power of design. The power in Watts between the processors of AMD and those of other companies cannot be directly compared, some observers noted.

The pieces of series of the EE will function in the frequencies of clock of 2.1 gigahertz (model 2373 EE) or of 2.3 gigahertz (model 2377), each one with 40 Watts ACP. The series of the EE joint another line of the processors of Opteron twisted for the basic use power: IT them series, which consume a little more power (55 Watts) but run slightly more quickly (up to 2.5 gigahertz). IT is launched on the market for waiters of blade.

The generic processors of quadruple-core of Opteron themselves have the frequencies of clock of up to 2.9 gigahertz, and employ 75 Watts ACP. AMD also offers a line to high output of Will choose, the series of, which run up to 3.1 gigahertz, and consumes 105 Watts ACP.

AMD claims that the processor of 2.3 gigahertz Opteron EE (2377 EE) short 62 percent of generic operation-by-Watt moreover than one processor of 2.3 gigahertz Opteron (model 2377), as judged by the SPECpower_ssj2008 reference mark.

With an update of BIOS, any mother chart which supports AMD 'current line of S of the processors of Changha� should be able to run the series of the EE, Lewis said. It provides that the thirds board manufacturers mother will start to design new mother charts low-actuated specifically to supplement the EE rayent.

AMD to the future

At last week considering the 6th birthday of the central processing unit of treatment of Opteron of AMD, the core of its product of waiter. We were among an small group of journalists and analysts with the campus of Sunnyvale of AMD for the event - which included also the launching of a new generation of silicon, and the revealing of the roadmaps of Opteron of AMD during the next years.

Specifying that �the market of waiter is very different�, Nigel Dessau of AMD opened even with a glance with the manner the market of waiter had changed during the last years - with a movement into exit rather than the frequency of clock with the systems multinucl�aires, with the virtualisation, and to conceive for energy efficiency, all with an aim of changing the economic scenes of the computer centre. The result was the density of waiter and the increaded use - more blow for your male in less space!

Like occurs afterwards? Dessau suggests that �the manner that you assemble architectures is what makes the difference.� This is why AMD puts so much in its central processing units of treatment, with much of what we would normally consider the tiddlywinks of support - including/understanding controllers of memory - on same silicon. It is not completely a system on a chip, but it obtains very narrowly nowadays.

Stalemate Patla, the GM and VP of the unit of company of the waiter of AMD revealed the new material. It was the course of the product range of Istanbul, a processor of six-core for two existing, four and eight systems of casing with what he said were �30% more execution than the former generation with the same power�. Istanbul also introduces all technologies of management of the power of AMD into a place like AMD-P.

Istanbul is not the end of the history - the next chapter already is written inside. AMD takes already its processor of next generation, 12 the core �Magny-Course�, that in spite to be a terrible pun, is a piece of silicon rather energetic - we observed a system of demonstration of 48 cores much of its way by several reference marks. It is not that remote, either, and should be transported in 2010.

The virtualisation is a target for the next generation of silicon, and she will add the support of the virtualized input-output. The units of i/o being virtualis� there is much place for the new application and the new manners of work (as well as a chance of virtualiser applications and waiters which were previously locked in the existing material). It is all the part of infrastructure 2.0 model, where the management tools benefit from the material to provide the flexible individual-controlled virtualized computer centres.

The other part of the history of AMD is how that functions on the management of power, with products available in various thermal bands - including/understanding a weak range of power intended for the applications to high density of simple and duelle casing, ideal for the computer centres of cloud. It must there be known as much for this approach, particularly like all the devices of the central processing units of treatment of power end high and high are in the versions of ideal efficiency. The dense deployments need greater effectiveness, because the costs of the computer centre are an enormous proportion of the costs engaged while directing a service of cloud. With an average power of 40W, the processors of series of the EE will help to keep these cooling and of power of the costs.

Magny-course is only part of the roadmaps of AMD, and the current architecture of the company is a long-term play (which is good for the virtualisation, because it will allow asymmetrical migrations, leaving the use of businesses a material that older for the covering of the losses purposes). The next generation will be the devices 32nm in 2011, a Interlagos device called from 12 to 16 cores and a Valence device called from 6 to 8 cores.

AMD Looks to Redefine the Game

�If I were a wild and free horticulture
All I 'd want are you with being my soft honey bee.
And if I were a large and green tree rising
All I 'd want are you for me ombrager and with being my sheets.

-- Of all which I want is you by Barry Louis Polisar

Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) just released an impressive line of new pieces, granted to a series of special needs. They will be enough to surmount Intel 's (Nasdaq: INTC) high-executant of the processors of Nehalem?

The new product of Opteron EE -- The EE represents extremely effective -- supply with the narrowly packed environments of center of data processing where the low power draws performance more than right-hand side-towards the top of matter the high one. The series of the EE will function also quickly like standard piece of Opteron, but in an envelope of 40 Watts power. Most effective Opteron previously would work out with 55 Watts of power while to do the same work, and a standard model needs up to 75 Watts.

These heavy improvements of processor-level translate with the low power approximately of 13% for a totality, system power-optimized. That makes the product very attractive to opacify the stores of calculation and other dense environments. Sometimes, more processors per square foot of center of data processing and megawatt-hour of output of food of electric current improve of the returns on investment that higher of the interpreters with the heavy needs for power.

The EE gained the 'Nehalem beat of T in the majority of the reference marks head to head, but as you can see, who 's not the point. Give at Intel the simple-processor crowns absolute execution during one moment -- and hearth on taking the market share in the arena of solid mass-multiprocessor. I intend to see waiters of blade built around these pieces by Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HPQ), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) -- or Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), as this company could be known in the near future.

Perhaps the best device of Opteron EE is than it should be complete lower-in the replacement for any other piece of Opteron. These pups are sorted rest as an element of the manufacture and the process of test -- a few pieces can function at the higher frequencies of clock, whereas others draw less power at a certain speed. This line is the by-product of the manufacture of high-quality.

No word on the price of street still, but Opteron not-all with fact-like-impressive that IT produces sells for almost twice the price of not it notch at the same speed. I 'call of D this a return of high-margin on an investment relatively inexpensive, and there 'gone well defined of SA for these basic pieces power.

If I were IT director with the supports in mass packed of waiter, I 'd want some of these beauties -- even if I also bought waiters of Nehalem for my needs with high output. AMD is of return in the play of center of data processing for truth. Now, 's leaves see whether it can bet that in stronger margins and actual profits. Stranger things occurred.

AMD Gets Testosterone Shots, Revs Chip Schedule

Trying to benefit the best from Intel, which beat it with the Nehalem quadruple-core, AMD indicated Wednesday during a webcast updating its program of unfolding that its so-called piece of Opteron Magny-Course, a piece 45nm of silicon with eight to 12 cores and the due one in 1Q10, took now.

It indicated that it would send units of seed in second half of these year and OEM awaited to have the systems 2P and 4P outside in first half of the next year.

The gadget is based on what AMD calls its directly bound architecture (DCA) 2.0. It proves that AMD gave up the so-called indigenous approach to put all the cores on one only part of silicon at the place one proven that who were supposed to make AMD 'quadruple-core of S first, Barcelona, so much completely fuss and is disastrous.

Magny-course goes the manner of Intel 's Juste-obtain-it-outside approaches and packs up two six-cores pieces of four-core together or two, according to Wall Street Journal, which teased the admission out of a timid AMD.

At all events, Intel was supposed to have the Nehalems eight-core outside towards the end of this year but it looks at 2010 now rather. Nehalem, moreover, is an indigenous quadruple-core.

AMD also mentioned a 32nm Interlagos Magny-Course called consequently, which had in 2011, which 's supposed to have 12 and 16 cores still for the platforms 2P and 4P.

Both belong to what AMD invites its platform of Marasello, supposed to advance at 2012 and at 2013.

AMD also indicated that it would have the low-end 1P and pieces of 2P San Marino: a core of furnace-six 45nm Lisbon and 32nm Valence in 2010 and 2011, respectively, which is supposed to advance at 2012 and 2013, if AMD lasts that a long time.

He refused to discuss the frequencies of clock in spite of the fear which each core can strongly be considerably dumbed-down in the processors multinucl�aires.

The platform of Marasello is the line of demarcation between AMD 'core 2000-2001 of S old Opteron and its new core of bulldozer.

AMD employs multi-cores to compensate for its lack of hyperthreading, a technique of Intel.

DCA 2.0 claims support the cores a dozen, an integrated controller of four channels, four bonds of AMD HyperTransport, AMD-V 2.0 virtualisation and so-called depreciation of power of AMD-P widgetry. AMD called it has design based on the use of platform.

While waiting, AMD 'piece of Istanbul of six-core of S is due to launching in front of the program in June, promising a jump of execution of 30% above Changha� on which him 's based. AMD will start to embark it for the income the next month.

The groupie Nathan Brookwood of piece said that it looks at as AMD has its back of groove insofar as the execution disappears. It completely lost it when it botched the piece of Barcelona, which left one late year, calculation of the costs the company which the edge Opteron gave it above Intel.

Wasn de Brookwood 't awaiting Istanbul until October.

Apparently the hasn of Intel 't doing that well with its first six-core, the piece of Dunnington, which is unfortunately based on the company 'the S went back the bus to before-side.

Absolute profits of execution-by-Watt of promise of Istanbul and Magny-Court.

Ah, yes, and day AMD of the ground eliminated the quadruple-core from 40W Opteron EE, its part of low-power meant for the very dense environments such as the portion of calculation and Web of cloud.

AMD Demonstrates Twelve-Core Microprocessors.

Advanced Micro Devices showed its microprocessors of twelve-core functioning in 4 days of a waiter of manner right after it indicated that it would start to sell pieces of six-core in May 2008. Thanks to the nature of multi-piece-module of the processor called of Magny-Course, creation of such a piece was a relatively easy challenge.

AMD Opteron 6000 series Magny-Course called with twelve engines of treatment will be released in first quarter of 2010, according to some reports/ratios. However, already now AMD can show the piece with the public and the customers to show with far its comparative advantages with the platforms and technologies from competition.

This week AMD showed a waiter of 4 manners comprising four processors of Magny-Course. While AMD did not show any real number of execution, the system with 48 cores seemed impressive by itself.

The processor of AMD Magny-Course will be the first piece for platform of AMD G34 the �Maranello� conceived for processors of Opteron 6000 series with to 16 cores, interfaces of memory from quadruple-channel, 2 or 4 casings, to 12 modules of memory by casing and a certain functionality of waiter and company-specific.

In 2011 AMD envisages to release a successor for Interlagos Magny-Course called, which will be based on the microphone-architecture of bulldozer, established using transformer technology 32nm and to contain to 16 cores.

AMD Seeks to Leapfrog Intel With Chip Plans

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. its program updated to provide new models of its pieces of Opteron for systems of waiter, hoping to exceed the execution of the products of competition of Intel Corp.

AMD indicated Wednesday when it will present a piece, Magny-Course called, in first quarter of 2010 which will come in the models with eight and 12 processors. The company currently offers what industry calls the pieces of quadruple-core, which pack the circuits of four processors on one of only one silicon part.

AMD also provided him more detail of the east plans accelerates the delivery of a piece of six-processor, Istanbul called, making it possible systems to be available by using the piece in June. The company had mentioned this development during a conference call with analysts Tuesday in connection with the company 'the financial results of first quarter of S.

Promote in the future, AMD indicated in 2011 when it will deliver a family of piece, doubled Interlagos, which will come in the models which have 12 or 16 processors.

AMD, of Sunnyvale, California, and Intel packed a long time to exceed itself to offer the additional cores of processor, which help of the waiters and other computers handle more work of calculation. AMD had recently fallen behind Intel in the absolute execution, underlining a balance computing speed with the price and the energy-effectiveness.

We do not lean the execution, Patrick says Patla, a vice-president of AMD and the managing director of his unit of waiter, during a briefing in its Sunnyvale, California, head offices which was emission above the Web. We want to make the top-line execution with the effectiveness of basic line.

Intel presented last year a model of its line of Xeon which has six processors; its more recent model, called Nehalem, has four processors, but each processor can handle up to two instructions simultaneously by employing one of process called hyper-threading. Intel indicated that it will deliver a Xeon eight-processor towards the end of 2009.

Nick Knupffer, a spokesperson of Intel, implied that the company will continue to exploit the advantages of hyperthreading.

We are trustful we will remain far ahead on the execution--and with few cores--made thus in, more profitable and manufacture-friendly in way he said in an email. It will be the first time in the history where less is more.

AMD DirectConnect 2.0 Prompts New Opteron Roadmap

On the sixth birthday of the launching of Opteron, AMD described what it called the majority of significant growth in the execution since beginning of Optreron 'of S: directly dependent architecture 2.0. AMD also announced the series of Opteron 4000 and 6000, which will address one to the market of processor of four-casing, and prolonged its roadmaps of processor of waiter outside to the calendar 2013.

AMD indicated that Tuesday that it will draw inside launching from its six-core processor of Istanbul waiter in can, with the forwarding of systems in June. Wednesday, AMD announced Opteron EE, a basic processor power of 40 Watts designed for the calculation of cloud.

Although AMD currently trails Intel rival in the race with the geometries never-fines, the advantage which the company continued is in a more effective design, going back to the original processor of Athlon for GCV. AMD 'last designs of processor of S included a more effective manner to pass from the data of a core to the others, called HyperTransport, and the part eliminated from the tiddlywinks by integrating the controller of memory, known under the name of directly dependent. Intel later adopted two technologies, though with its own architecture.

Because a person of marketing said to me, it the 'ok of S to copy the past but the future must be created, Nigel says Dessau, AMD 'marketing director of S.

Wednesday, AMD described the next stages in its plan to maintain its wire technological: 2.0 directly dependent. Principal Traiteur here is that our next great jump in technology is 2.0 directly dependent, Pat says Patla, a vice-president of AMD and managing director of his businesses of waiter.

DCA 2.0, as the company calls it, will allow the 12 cores Magny-Course architectures, that AMD will start to sow customers by in second half of 2009 and will be transported during first half of 2010, Patla said. Instead of the two-track controller of memory found in current architecture, AMD will double it with four channels; three bonds of HyperTransport will be climbed up to four. AMD also envisages to update its virtualisation of AMD-V and of technologies of power of AMD-P with possibilities of second generation, frameworks said.

The goal was to improve all the components of directly dependent: the virtualizatin, the execution, and balance it, Patla indicated. Compared with Changha�, the architecture of DCA of Magny-Course 2.0 will twice include the channels of memory, 3.3 times the speed of memory, 1.9 times the bandwidth of HyperTransport, and 2.2 times the hiding-place.

The goal was to improve the number and the execution of virtualized applications functioning on a waiter, important for medium-sized companies and large companies. AMD 'continuation of the second generation of S AMD-V, launching with Magny-Course, will include the virtualized input-output, the fast indexing of virtualisation, labelled TLBs, the positive prolonged and asymmetrical migration. Several of the possibilities of management of power are already established in Opteron EE.

AMD 'new families of S Opteron

AMD will also launch two new families of the products: Opteron 6000 and Opteron 4000 series. Conceived for the environments virtualisation-intensives, Opteron 6000 series will be conceived for 2 or 4 casings, with 4 channels of memory U/RDDR-3 and until 12 DIMMs by casing. The 4000 series, while waiting, will be sold in the file and the web server, some environments of cloud and the HPC: the family will be designed for 1 - and 2 environments of casing, with two channels of the memory and until four DIMMs by casing.

The 6000 and 4000 series will belong to of Maranello of and San Marino platforms, that AMD described in its update of roadmaps, as an element of art accompanying this history.

AMD announces June release date for Istanbul

AMD announced the last updates with its family of Opteron, including its first processor of six-core, and described its roadmaps up to 2012.

John Fruehe, the company 'directing of development of the businesses of S for waiters and work stations, said the piece of Opteron of six-core, Istanbul called, would launch in June, month in front of program .
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Fruehe indicated that the chipmaker 'the processor of six-core of S first to deliver appreciably more power by Watts that the existing platforms. Istanbul is launched to the companies running of the multifil applications, exceeding the company the 's have processors of waiter of Changha� in this sector, Fruehe explained.

It is also the first system to build by AMD 'new total businesses of foundries of S.

Looking at further, Fruehe indicated plans of AMD to present the second version of directly bound architecture (DCA) used in its pieces of Opteron in 2010. DCA 2.0 will allow processors with to 12 cores at the beginning, and in the future , it said.

DCA 2.0 will allow this by four separate channels of memory integrated to the top of three in the current pieces. AMD indicated that the processors will be offered on a model based on the use of evaluation. Fruehe added that the capacity to run of the more virtual machines by waiter would be an important sales point of this platform.

AMD aims at creating a coherent whole of devices through its families of product. Fruehe promised that from here 2010, all our whole of device, and their possibilities, are available and formed through all our products , by saving directors of network much of administration and support in the datacentre.

The next year will see the addition of two new lines of Opteron, with the 6000 and the 4000 uniting to exist 1000,2000 and 4000 series.

Opteron 6000, conceived for a platform of Maranello waiter called, at the beginning will be composed 45nm of the pieces Magny-Course called with 8 to 12 cores. The year after, 32nm the Interlagos pieces called will be added with 12 to 16 cores.

Opteron 4000 series will follow the same chronology, with 45nm the Lisbon pieces called having 4 to 6 cores entering the platform of waiter of San Marino, followed later pieces of 32nm Valence with 6 to 8 cores.

In the 2012 all two platforms will be added to with the pieces like-still-anonymities of waiter of next generation, Fruehe indicated.

AMD plans 16-core server chip -- but not until 2011

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. stated today that him 's designing a processor of waiter with to 16 cores, which would quadruple the account in the company 'the existing pieces of Opteron of quadruple-core of S.

But the new piece, which is Interlagos called and slated to support between 12 and 16 cores of processor, will be to come from long time. The processor gained 't is released until 2011, the civils servant of AMD declared during a press conference of webcast. They added that Interlagos will be a follow-up with a processor Magny-Course called of 12 cores of the plans of this AMD to release in the next year 'quarter of S the first.

According to AMD, the future 16 pieces of core will be able to enter waiters with two to four casings of processor, having for result a maximum of 64 cores per system. The piece will belong to the supplier 's Opteron 6000 series, that the civils servant of AMD declared will be employed mainly in waiters of center of data processing.

The increase in the accounts of core in the pieces is a manner for AMD and leader of Intel Corp. market of microprocessor to improve the execution while trying to reduce the power. It can also lower the number of necessary waiters to the centers of data processing, which should help to reduce the acquisition of material and the costs energy for customers, said Pat Patla, vice-president of AMD 'of unit of platform of waiter of S.

AMD will take an initial measure beyond its current limit of four-core the next month. During a conference call yesterday on its financial results of the first quarter, which included a dead loss $416 million, the company said that it will embark a six-core Opteron Istanbul called in May, one earlier of month than envisaged.

When the pieces of Interlagos are ready for the release, they probably will be aimed to the waiters which handle workloads requiring the abundance of capacity for treatment, such as accomodating current databases and simulations, said senior McCarron, analyst principal in the search of Mercury in the split of cave, Ariz. It to be moment before 16 cores is, traditional it said.

The line of Opteron competes with Intel 'family of piece of waiter of S Xeon. Intel released the Xeon six-core 7400 series last September. But up to now, largest Xeon which he discussed publicly is a Nehalem piece called of eight-core EX, which had for the release the next year.

Intel also announced plans for has much-core per piece called Larrabee which is programmed to be transported at the beginning of 2010, but which is a processor of graphs aimed at AMD 'with product and devices of S ATI of Nvidia Corp.
In spite of the push to increase the number of cores in the processors, there 's more with the execution of amplification that just doing that, Patla noted. He said that AMD 'pieces of S future also will include the advanced devices of management of power which will make it possible users to manually cover the quantity of energy that the cores can consume and cut the idle those.

Moreover, AMD envisages to double the number of virtual machines which can be constant by the pieces of Opteron and add new whole of instruction to improve the capacity of the processors to carry out tasks in the virtualized environments, according to Patla.

In the processors due for the release the next year and in 2011, AMD also envisages to add the support of more than memory and hiding-place. But there are some obvious devices missing, like multifile, that Intel already presented in its pieces.

Us �about the execution not leaning, Patla indicated, adding that the improvements envisaged of piece are balanced and that AMD wants to provide the value without going over edge on devices. The plans of improvement also are conceived to align with HIM directors � concern conce

AMD No Longer Feels the Need to Go “Native”

The chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices judge constantly with the one-up. AMD thought that it had gained an important edge with Barcelona sailed round by product in September 2007: many press releases of AMD sounded trumpet that it was the �indigenous� piece of the four-processor of the world first based on the design x86, which is the principal support of the majority of the GCV and systems of waiter.

That distinction-which means that four electronic brains are integrated on one only part of silicon-didn' T finish AMD to the top of assistance much. The customers seemed perfectly happy with a product of the �quadruple-core� of Intel the �not-native� approach, which packed up two pieces biprocessors in a package and helped Intel to obtain to launch on the market quickly with, as industry calls them. Barcelona upwards finished having delays and engineering problems early, also, although AMD later matched those outside in a piece of follow-up called Changha�.

Now AMD seems to have changed its air. The company Wednesday announced that it prepares a few new pieces in first quarter of 2010 qu ' it described as 8 12 of core processors of core and. Although the official statement and the slides of press do not mention it, AMD recognizes that they will be the first deviation of the company of the indigenous approach; a piece will pack up two pieces of four-processor together, and the other will be composed of two pieces of six-processor.

Required on the shift, the vice-president of Patrick Patla-a and the managing director responsible for the pieces of AMD waiter-known as the multiple pieces of packing not never known as of company together �is a bad idea,� as long as the execution of calculation is not sacrificed in the process. Next pieces, which will exploit a new technology of connection that AMD calls directly bound architecture 2.0, �were optimized for the execution� thus the users do not obtain shorts-changed of the whole, it said. Patla called the question of the strategy of piece-packing of tedious AMD �,� being compared a little with the advantages that the new pieces will bring.

It is worth to note Intel also took a page out of the action plans of its rival from time to time. The last high piece at end of the company, doubled Nehalem, is not only one indigenous design of quadruple-core but also incorporates an integrated function called a culminating point of contoller-a of memory of the designs of AMD for six year-quIntel in the past ridiculed.

I think that it just states that there is no absolute ici-quand something functions for one or the other of the suppliers is who what they will make,� said Rob Enderle, which operates companies of council of technology of Silicon Valley called the group of Enderle. �Sometimes the other type has it in fact right.�

AMD: Servers strong, mobile muted

Advanced Micro Devices of the 'roadmaps of waiter is full but its traditional mobile line languishes.

AMD 'six-core of S release of Istanbul processor were raised at June
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Initially, the good news. Nowadays AMD goes maintenance. It is a radical change of the AMD of 2007-2008, which always seemed to have a distributor completely paper processors of INTEL-victory which, if they materialized, disappointed.

Rapid ahead with AMD 'with advertisement of incomes of S Tuesday, when the company said it raised really the introduction its processor more sophisticated, the Istanbul six-core, at June.

And AMD proved its silicon courage to large customers of waiter such as IBM and Sun Microsystems--executive vice-president John Fowler the last 'of S did not have anything but the praise for processors AMD in the systems at end high of waiter of Sun.

In total Webcast has on technology Wednesday of waiter, Patrick Patla, a vice-president in AMD 'waiter of S and businesses of work station, indicated strong roadmaps, to say that 8 - and 12 cores Magny-Course processors will appear in 2010. Us 'about currently working with the new processors until we wait will deliver more than 35 times the execution of the processor to an original core of AMD Opteron released in 2003, Patla said in a report/ratio.

Intel, naturally, will also highlight processors of much-core, but AMD keeps the step, and, according to the people who should know, like Sun 's Fowler, perhaps more than keeping the step.

Now, the bad news. This post today on Hundred 's beseech the blog says it all: One of our greater exits with the HP the 'house dv3z of S was its processor of AMD, keeping it to beat outside the execution from comparable 13 - and the laptops of 14 inches with Intel dig 2 central processing units of treatment of duet. It is, by no means, the first review which expresses this feeling. In short, mobile platforms of AMD uniformly are raised soon on the market of high profile and in full expansion of laptop. Will AMD fill space in 2009?

Perhaps an answer to this question is the n�o- piece of AMD 'of S which actuates the inexpensive and ultra-thin laptop house dv2 of HP. More than one Netbook but less than one traditional laptop, this kind of mobile device smoothes could thereafter eclipse the high segment at end of Netbook.

President Dirk Meyer of AMD stated Tuesday that the n�o- processor with a core will obtain a child of same parents of duel-core to double in Congo from here summer. A processor of duel-core in this expensive not very, category of the MacBook-Air-for-the-masses is an irresistible proposal. AMD must remain in front of the play, particularly when Intel highlights pieces for this category in the calendar of May-June.

AMD next-gen ultrathin gets early birthday

AMD is carried in balance to beat Intel in the race to embark the next generation of the processors strapping men of waiter and the pieces of ultra-thin-book.

During the conference call of yesterday 'of S announcing the company 'the incomes of first quarter of S, President Dirk Meyer of AMD 'of S and the rivet multi-hatted of EVP, COO, and CAD Bob make it be known that the beastie of waiter of Istanbul of six-core and the platform of Congo of ultra-thin-book will be available during the current quarter.

Discussing Istanbul, Meyer said: I am happy to announce that thanks to our strong technology and execution, draws us in forwardings from income from Istanbul in May, with the availability of system in June.

Note the little about forwardings of income. AMD always fights to break even financially, thus all the additional ones box inside May and June will help to make its numbers Q2 2009 more bearable.

Intel, just as now well-known with world+dog, recently debuted its Xeon four-core EP-based by Nehalem 5500 series. Its eight-core Nehalem isn EX 't envisaged until the next year. And the doesn of Chipzilla 't has all the pieces of six-core in its roadmaps.

But because AMD provided more groups of Istanbul during another call of press this afternoon, Intel had this to say: Because the competitors fall behind into the execution, you will see that they to throw more cores and more die size of their processors to continue. This takes the real estate of valid processor and the working capacity. The key is input-output, integrated controllers of memory, or no device a peripheral. The key is which has better microarchitecture of processor, and clearly it is Intel.

While waiting, the platform of Congo is designed for the place incipient from the ultra-thin books such as the air and the house dv2 of MacBook of HP intended for the stylistas which want the full execution of PC in a smaller factor of form.

Congo will comprise a version of duel-core of AMD 'processor of S of n�o-, Conesus called. Reports/ratios earlier had at the end of this year this forwarding of platform, but apparently the things go more without jolt than envisaged with AMD. Like said rivet, us will embark this end of platform at the bottom of this quarter.

Congo is one following the company at the 'platform with a core of S Yukon, which was its first incursion into late acronym of the day, CULV - for the very reduced tension of the consumer. Not to be exceeded, Intel has its own parts of CULV in its drain - but they gained 't appear until at the end of this year.

AMD can be first in this race, but they 'd make well to remember the old proverb: Pionniers obtains the arrows. The colonists obtain the ground. �

AMD Announces Istanbul; Offers New Server Roadmap

To mark the sixth birthday of its first processor of Opteron, AMD today officially announced its new processor of waiter, called Istanbul. AMD indicates that it will be the first such a processor with the two six cores and a directly bound architecture; and be available for 2,4, or 8 systems of casing. This would enable you to put to 48 cores of processor in a system, which is the first system x86 about which I dense the 'VE intended to speak.

AMD indicates that the product will produce 30 percent of execution moreover than to exist Changha� processor of quadruple-core to the same power supply. One expects that the product in support of HyperTransport 3.0 with a configuration called , assistance of HT and is in the systems in June.

But I right as was interested in where AMD 'line of waiter of S goes from here. (Click on top the image to see a greater image of the roadmaps.) AMD was formed while making it possible its new pieces to function in old platforms, and Istanbul continues to make thus.� But with the next generation, due in 2010, it will require new casings and new platforms, because of the change so that AMD calls the directly bound architecture 2.0, which will support a controller of memory integrated 4 by channels (against 2 a channel one in the current products) and up to 4 bonds of HyperTransport (against 3 in the current products). It will be available with to 12 cores in a design which the company calls Magny-Course. Compagnie says that it will be the greatest jump in the execution in any generation of Operton; and known as that Magny-Course takes now, and is envisaged to be in the systems in first quarter of 2010.


In the new family, the line of Opteron will include two new series now: The 6000 series are conceived for 2 or 4 systems of casing, with up to 12 DIMMS per casing. The 6000 starts with the platform of Maranello, starting with the processor of Magny-Course with to 12 cores on a process 45nm. That will be followed in 2011 Interlagos with 12-16 cores on a process 32nm. Interlagos is based on next microarchitecture, called Bulldozer.


The 4000 series are conceived for 1 or 2 systems of casing, with up to 4 DIMMs by casing. This will form part at the beginning of of San Marino of platform, at the origin with a processor 45nm with 4 to 6 cores called Lisbon. It will include the special parts designed to be more ideal efficiency.

This follow-up another new piece of waiter, one announced today, Opteron EE, a processor of 40 Watts, designed for the very dense environments of center of data processing.

Intel, AMD still rivals

Xeon 5500 series erases pieces of Xeon of precedent-generation in almost each reference mark which you throw to it.

Is the war of processor finished thus? Intel have-T-it gained? Not, and not yet.

Advanced Micro Devices is to the bottom at present, but hardly outside.

It directed speed races clearly recently, concentrating more on products of graphs. And him 's working with its own pieces of the second generation, which will be produced with financial fresh bottoms by its arm of manufacture recently turn-with far.

While waiting, AMD can cling to some markets of place where it always shows the muscle, such as systems of monster of eight-processor and waiters bottom-of-the-range.

Especially, him 's not really a battle head with head at present.

The whole market of piece is thus beaten downwards by this recession and the reductions by resulting from budget of technology that you can think at Intel and AMD like rivals wedged in the same boat.

It seems more the reasonable one to try to raise the back all the market lost instead of the massacre above some points of market share.

He 'time of S to make a larger meat pie. Fights above the sections later.

AMD plans 16-core server chip

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) indicates that it designs a piece of waiter with to 16 cores, quadrupling the account of its current waiter of quadruple-core notches.

Interlagos called, the piece will have between 12 and 16 cores, and will be released in 2011, the states of company. Interlagos will be a follow-up offering to the piece Magny-Course called of 12 cores of the plans of this AMD to release in first quarter of 2010.

Increasing the core by piece of the accounts is a manner so that AMD improves the execution while trying to reduce the power drawn by the processors. To add more cores tightens also more execution out of the waiters, which can reduce all the account of waiter to the computer centres. That the assistances to reduce the acquisition of material and the costs energy, indicates Pat Patla, vice-president of the unit of platform of waiter with AMD.

The 16 pieces of core could enter waiters with between two to four casings, which could mean maximum of 64 cores per waiter. The piece will belong to Opteron 6000 series of pieces, that the company said will be probably employed in waiters of the computer centre.

The pieces will be more for the waiters which handle a series of applications - including/understanding simulations and databases - this abundance of the need for capacity for treatment, known as McCarron senior, principal analyst in the search of Mercury.

Being given consumer environment and these workload, it to be moment before 16 cores is, traditional McCarron adds.

The pieces of Opteron of AMD compete with the pieces of waiter of Xeon from Intel, but Intel announced only one version of 8 cores of its pieces of Xeon with Nehalem-EX called of piece, which had for the release in 2010. Intel also announced Larrabee piece which has much, cores but it is more for one environment of superinformatic with applications at end raised like returned three-dimensional charts.

But there is to notch the execution more that just adding cores, Patla known as. The value of the pieces turns around providing an execution of calculation balanced and reducing expenses of acquisition of energy and material, he adds.

AMD in its pieces of future will integrate the devices of management of power and the whole of instruction advanced into the level of piece to better carry out tasks in the virtualized environments. The users will be able to improve the power of order by manually covering the power drawn by cores and while cutting cores with vacuum. AMD also makes improvements to the levels of hypervisor to double the number of virtual machines which can be built on the pieces AMD-based current of waiter.

With the new pieces envisaged in 2010 and 2011, AMD also envisages to add more support of memory and hiding-place in the platforms of waiter. But there were some obvious devices missing, like multifile, that Intel already presented in its pieces. Multifile makes it possible cores to carry out multiple wire and the tasks simultaneously.

We do not lean, of execution Patla known as. The improvements of piece are balanced and AMD wants to provide the value without going over edge on devices, it is added. The improvements are conceived to align with preoccupations with a going beyond of the customers of company concerning the fragile economy and the need for measuring the value of products TI which they envisage to buy, it says.

AMD also announced that it will release a piece of 8 Valence cores called for waiters of low-end in 2011. The pieces will belong to Opteron 4000 series of pieces for one or two waiters of casing. The waiters will be designed to run of the applications of the email to the reception of Web, Patla indicates.

The pieces will be realized using the manufacturing process 32nm, which is awaited to provide improved energy efficiency and the best execution than the current pieces of Opteron realized using the process 45nm.