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.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
AMD Leans On More Cores To Best Intel
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
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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.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
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(Credit: AMD)
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.
With six-core chips and a road map, AMD preps for stimulus money fight
WASHINGTON -- The government of the United States starts to spend of the billion dollars quickly to stimulate the economy. 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 while AMD was in Sunnyvale, California, announcing its chart of aggressive road of piece, Justin Rattner, Intel Corp. 'directing as a chief of technology of S, was in Washington, selling its company 's notches.
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, Rattner known as. He spoke mainly about the profits about execution about late Intel Xeons, but the company is also conscious of the government 'plan of S to spend much of money in technology.
To be sure, AMD can 't be allowed is left in levellings financed by the USA of technology, not with its recent cord of the losses. And the government was good for the company. When AMD released its Opteron 64-bit in 2004, its first large users were centers of high-output computer which obtain much of their money, directly or indirectly, of the government sources. The giant computer fastest in the world -- IBM 's peta-measure Roadrunner, builds for the national laboratory of Los Alamos -- pieces of Opteron of uses.
The doesn of Rattner 't knows that how much federal dollars will go to technology and Intel known as always occasions in the government 'the plans of expenditure of S. I discover think that we were astonished that there is money in stimulus for high-output computer because it refers to, by climate change it said.
The government now sets up the processes by which he will spend almost the $800 billion money of stimulus on a series of projects. The government organizations will obtain many new waiters; technology is unrolled for health care; giant computers will be built. And new industries will go up. The government, for example, envisages to spend $2 billion for factories lithium-ion.
Rattner met civils servant and HIM of government of the directors to a here INTEL-active conference, and discussed the merits of the company 'of the technology of processor of S -- in particular its Nehalem, or Xeon 5500, plough horse of quadruple-core used in many the traditional waiters. Intel released a piece of six-core, Xeon 7400, last September. The eight-core Nehalem EX is envisaged in 2010.
AMD is trying to obtain in front of, of Intel particularly its Nehalem EX, said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst with Insight64 in Saratoga, California. That 's partly behind AMD 'decision of S to eliminate its piece of Istanbul from six-core five months in front of program.
Nehalem clearly seized execution favours that AMD had for, of very long time Brookwood said. Now, AMD believes that Istanbul will maintain them very competing during the next year, and outward journey then with 12 cores in 2010 will maintain them competing when Intel leaves with eight.
The king of Charles, an analyst at Pund-IT Inc., said that large, the pieces multinucl�aires are concentrated on providing the increasingly robust platforms for the virtualisation. I think that 's where they see the future in, of the market x86 he said.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Leaked AMD mobile roadmap shows CPU/GPU fusion in 2011
These creatures annoying with the expreview seem to have some slides of AMD 'of nearest mobile platforms of S.
We published AMD 'roadmaps of S of the day of analyst (November 2008), thus they 's interesting to see whether both - together five months of distant - differ much.
To assume the first slide is correct, 2009 seems enough more or less even, really, with the platform of Tiger put in the high-speed motorboat by the 45nm Caspian piece the �� of duel-core these of the interfaces with memory DDR2 at dual channel. The tiddlywinks of support obtain a bump, with RS880M, probably a rapid-synchronized version of M780G. Discrete GPUs are derivations on current designs, and we expect that clock-speeds assemble some.
2010 bring with him the platform of the Danube, comprising piece of Champlain. Extensible with four cores to give at Intel 's the current line of central processing unit of treatment of execution per race for its money, Champlain will emigrate the mobile platform at end raised with DDR3-1,066. Other that, the tiddlywinks of support looks at to be more or less even, though with the newer southbridge which brings to a couple more ports of USB and RAID. What 's really interesting are the new graphs, definite like �series of Manhattan �. The bet is that they 'about the models 40nm based on the nearest parts of office.
Truths changes are brought from 2011, because AMD brings Unit-and-GPU love in the form of APU of Llano (treatment unit accelerated - fusion) under the platform of Sabine. AMD specifies that it will pass to a process 32nm for Llano, which seems eerily similar at Intel 's Westmere (Arrandale) on the first glance.
Llano 'arrived of S will require a change of casing, to FS1, with a new core-logic of support. We 'd also bet that the integrated graphs will be DX11-compliant and comprise the next iteration of the technology of video-treatment, UVD 3.0.
What we want to know, now, is how Unit-and-GPU architectures of competition will play outside. Intel will be first in addition to beater with Westmere, follow-up one year or so much later by AMD 's Llano. Intel has, discutablement, a better (and prompter for launching on the market) know-how of central processing unit of treatment, while AMD/ATI is much stronger in the space of graphs. Who is lit your money?
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition already available for $275
Peeling behind black onion of central processing unit of treatment of the edition X4 955 of Phenom II of AMD, we returned account the first time of the probability of the piece above there is one month. News brought yesterday of a etailer of the USA having indicated the piece on its site, have the price indicated to $325.
The two reports/ratios were based on conjectures more than hard the fact, but, now, seems to him as if X4 955 EITHER is much a reality.
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Already available to buy in HongKong, Techpowerup announces that a reader snagged the processor like-still-not distributed for the princely sum of around �190.
To be added on our marvellous VAT and to take into account that Phenom II X4 920 of AM2+ is available for �150 and the also-AM2+ X4 940 for �182. '955 should enter to �220. Such a price (slightly) would release Intel dig i7 920 but put it in the ignition line of the Q9550 quadruple of core 2 of 2.83GHz-clocked Intel.
The piece of AMD will be synchronized inside with 3.20GHz, to have 8MB hiding-place (2MB L2, 6MB L3), and cast casing AM3, meaning support DDR2/DDR3, according to the information of box.
Would you treat to yourselves �220 a central processing unit of treatment black of the edition X4 955 of Phenom II of AMD that will synchronize with 4GHz without too much difficulty, or you see Intel 'position of S as being too dominating in space �200-�250 so that he is a serious candidate?
We count that a price sub-�200 would make him a good purchase. Something more and the articulated truck of Intel, the core i7, becomes preferred.
AMD Phenom II: striking back with a vengeance?
Introduction
The razzamatazz of THESE 2009, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, provides the context for a launching of product which will define AMD 'central processing units of treatment of high office at end of S for first half of the year.
Based on manufacturing process of company 'of S 45nm and brought to launch two or three months after the launching of the similar part of waiter, Changha�, AMD 'processors of quadruple-core of Phenom II of S promise the higher frequencies of clock, to compete with better Intel 'central processing units of treatment of quadruple of core 2 of S.
Phenom II 920 and 940, released at clock-speeds of 2.8GHz and 3.0GHz, respectively, will be available to buy into two or three weeks. We study if advances above Phenom supported X4 are enough to make them the serious candidates on the market <�250.
AMD brings full force of Phenom II to bear with AM3 chips
Introduction
AMD launched a revised range of the processors of execution to the beginning of the year. Phenom doubled II, the new central processing units of treatment of quadruple-core additional to the existing architecture of Phenom by raising clock-speeds with 3GHz, of the high preceding one of 2.6GHz, and promote to add the execution by employing more L3 hiding-place - of a 2MB divided to 6MB.
The additional execution for Phenom IIs their made it possible to compete with better Intel 'pieces of quadruple-core of half span of S, and the following reductions of the price made Phenom of the central processing units of treatment of II 920 and 940 kind reasonably in space sub-�200.
While AMD brought more mojo to the table with a range of the improvements, the pieces were still packed up in the form-factor of AM2+, meaning that the support of memory, crucial determining cause of total execution, was limited to DDR2 widely-available functioning officially with until speeds 1,066MHz.
Just above there is one month, however, we had hoped to see the launching of IIs de Phenom in a package AM3, allowing the support for memory DDR2 and DDR3, the bandwidth increased and a light jolt in the execution.
Now, AMD brings of any power of the architecture of central processing unit of treatment of Phenom to the bear with the central processing units of treatment AM3, and we see whether they can continue to be a spine in the space of enthusiast of volume.
Deal of the day - AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition for £168, including VAT and delivery
You know just that a new processor is in work when the price of a holder drops by at least 10 percent.
Us 'about speaking about edition 940 black of Phenom II of AMD, synchronized inside with 3.0GHz and run a form-factor of AM2+.
Evaluated with approximately �240 during launching in January, falling quickly with �190 a few weeks later, Phenom II X4 of high-frequency had another end.
Available for �165, including the VAT and the delivery of Ebuyer, the piece detail-locked up in a box reviews right irresistible like engine for a construction of half span. 4GB of quality DDR2 should place you behind less than �40, and a mother chart 790GX another �75.
AMD 'company of SA which underlines the value, and Phenom II X4 940 ARE is certainly that. Your movement, Intel.
Bond @ �165.21 of Ebuyer (�196 currently - 12:45 20/0409)
12:45 of update - the ebuyer the 'evaluation of S.A. turned over again at the precut levels, approximately �195.
Scan.co.uk took again on the cut that 's.A. confirmed by the BRITISH owner of sale of AMD, Andrew Buxton, in HEXUS.channel.
AMD confirms Phenom II 940 price cut
The BRITISH owner Andrew Buxton of AMD spoke exclusively in HEXUS.channel to confirm today that AMD had cut approximately 18 percent in addition to cost of the 940 and had explained him that he rather of course thinks measurement to the top a base of blow-by-male.
Has cut of 18 percent on the preceding price of the 940 represents a serious proposal for a value and incites to him a strong candidate to be the processor of core of quadruple of volume of the choice, of Buxton known as.
This fall of the prices makes indeed Phenom II 920 obsolete (they now harshly cost the same thing) and pretty made much the same thing for Phenom II 810.
What seems also clear, but which it couldn of Buxton the 'comment of T above, is that made AMD of the place for Phenom II 955, that the hasn 't launched however but seems to run outside in any event.
The 3GHz 940 now seems to be placed straightforwardly against the 2.66GHz lately launched Intel Q8400 on the price, whereas the 3.2GHz 255 can have well the price indicated to the level of the 2.82GHz Q9550 or 2.66GHz the core i7-920.
OLPC 1.5 Hardware Refresh
OLPC aims at raising the setting with a material regenerates of its device without breaking the bank, and generation 1.5 will be rigid different from the project of generation 2.0 because it will maintain a design industrial similar and batteries like GEN 1. The principal difference would increase the account of RAM with 1GB, whereas the Flash memory of not-and 4GB can be improved with 8GB if you wish thus. With Via processor of C7-M will function in the middle of the things, where one can play between the clock extends from 400 megahertz (1.5 W) with 1GHz (5 W), and can be strangled behind automatically in order to meet thermal stresses. OLPC looks towards its association with PixelQi to improve the glare and the effectiveness of the screen as well for generation 1.5, and here 's hoping us as they will succeed.
OLPC Drops AMD Chips for Via
A laptop by child Friday regenerated his material of laptop XO-1, emptying notches of Advanced Micro Devices in favour of the processors from the intermediary of technologies.
The non-profit-making one will now use via 'processor of S C7-M instead of AMD 'processor of S Geode to actuate the laptop, the civils servant of OLPC declared in a post on the group 'Web site of S. the levelling is a part previously not revealed of an update of laptop that OLPC announced last year.
Via the processor will function at the frequencies of clock of between 400MHz and 1GHz, that OLPC considers a levelling above the processor of Geode LX in current laptops of XO. The improved material should improve the execution of system while drawing the similar quantities of power.
The laptop the 'single aspect of S gained 'the change of T, but via the processor will amplify its possibilities, the team of OLPC wrote. Via provides tiddlywinks which will include an engine of three-dimensional charts and a visual decoder with high-definition in a simple package.
In our uninterrupted effort to maintain a point of low price, OLPC regenerates the material to benefit from the late component civils servant, of technologies OLPC wrote in the post.
Advanced Micro Devices in January indicated that it envisages to eliminate the basic piece power of ageing from Geode, creating uncertainty about its use in the products like future laptops of XO.
The improved material adds also more memory and of storage. The laptops improved of XO will include 1GB RAM and between 4GB and 8GB of storage. The existing systems of XO include 256MB RAM and 1GB of storage.
The systems will become available to examine in August. A date for forwardings of volume of the wasn of laptop of 't announced by OLPC.
With being used by children in the countries in the process of development, the laptop of XO was congratulated for its devices on material innovating and design favorable to the environment. In addition to this update of material, the organization works with the next generation of the material of XO -- XO-2 called -- what can use processors designed by ARM.
OLPC laptop drops AMD for Via
One laptop by laptop of project 'of S XO of child will commutate with has via the processor as an element of a general material regenerate.
Generation 1.5 of the machine of XO will have the same industrial design that the original model, but will employ has via the processor of C7-M, John Watlington, OLPC 'vice-president of S of the development of material, wrote in a post Friday. Currently the XO, which is the educational markets concerned of the countries in the process of development, uses a processor of AMD Geode.
But of design is to provide a total update of the system in the same identification and, external of aspect Watlington wrote. In order to maximize compatibility with the existing software, this regenerate will continue a processor x86, using tiddlywinks from the intermediary of.
Generation 1.5 of XO will arrive in November, OLPC Nicholas as a Negroponte chief says ZDNet UK Monday. He said that the shift with via the piece occurred because AMD had stopped its basic processor power.
Watlington indicated that regeneration was separated from the of the �GEN 2.0 � the project, in which OLPC will commutate with one Arm-based, instead of x86-based, the processor. The first of the laptops of XO 2.0 will launch at the beginning of 2011, Negroponte indicated.
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In generation 1.5 of XO regenerate, the memory of the XO will be amplified of 256MB with 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM. Its instantaneous storage will go to the top of 1GB to 4GB, with an option for 8GB.
Via the processor a range of clock of 400MHz with 1GHz will have, having for result the power of 1.5W with 5W, Watlington indicated. It will be integrated in the XO as an element from the intermediary of 'the new VX855 tiddlywinks of S, which will also amplify the audio and visual execution of XO 'of S, it added.
While the revised XO will employ existing posting, the OLPC functions with the PixelQi originator of screen to improve its glare and the effectiveness, Watlington wrote. The new machine will also require update with the software of OLPC in order to support the new material, it said.
Watlington indicated that versions early new material will be released for the development of driver at the end of May, with more prototypes leaving for the development of software and to examine around at the end of August.
Monday, April 6, 2009
High-End: Athlon 64 X2 6000+
We selected AMD 's Athlon 64 X2 6000+ like processor at end raised for our project. Although there is also the edition 6400+ black, it does not provide clearly more execution (3.2 gigahertz instead of 3.0 gigahertz) and AMD did not even take this product. Because you will see in the section of test results, it would not have even made a difference. The 6000+ are available to the estimates of TDP of 125 W and 89 W; ours is of the 125 partitions of W. All the models have two 1 hiding-places of the mb L2, and them 'about based on 90 the old process of the nanometer ONESELF instead of the 65 newer the nanometer one.
AMD Processors
Bottom-of-the-range: Athlon X2 BE-2350
Athlon X2 BE-2350 has the price indicated below $100 and provides the execution of office full to a thermal point evaluated with design only of 45 W. Although Intel also has the processors of ideal efficiency, the 2 duelles lines of core of duet and of Pentium of the core are evaluated with a maximum of 65. In the theory, the basic processor power of AMD should have a significant advantage while functioning with insufficient cooling.
Athlon X2 BE-2350 functions with 2.1 gigahertz of the frequency of clock and has two 512 hiding-places of the KB L2. It is based on the process of nanometer DSL ONESELF of the current 65, which provides the superbly low currents of escape. These processors use casing AM2 at a speed of bond of 1 gigahertz. Note that all Athlon 64 X2 processors are estimated at 68 W or rise, whereas this processor, although technically similar, is specified only to 45 W.
AMD’s new sockets and DDR2 support
AMD not beginning their 65 processors of nanometer any time soon, nor they in the near future offer processors based on a new whole architecture. We can await Athlon 64 FX-60 at the beginning of 2006, where are to it the first processor of AMD, officially, race with 3.0GHz, which will be always based on the core of 90 nanometer San Diego. Athlon 64 X2 will also see a bump inside clockspeed with 2.6GHz, giving him an estimate 5000+ effective. It is more interesting to note what however is this fact that the casing-A and the socket-754 due will quickly be eliminated to the introduction from socket-939 Semprons. The greatest change for AMD will be in the 2nd quarter of 2006 however with the transition to DDR2 with a new generation from Athlon 64 processors which will comprise a new compatible controller of memory of integrated function DDR2.
AMD 'processor of S Athlon 64, the processor of AMD more successful up to now.
With the transition to DDR2 AMD also moves their processor of Athlon 64 with a new casing called socket-m2. With exactly 940 terminals which this casing could resemble him will accept the 940 processors of Opteron of pin but it gained 't because new socket-m2 will not be pin-compatible nor will have the same print of step as socket-940. The new processor with a core of support of DDR2 Athlon 64 goes by the code name of Orleans and comprises 1MB of L2-mask while the duel-core is doubled Windsor and devices twice the quantity of L2-mask. The core of Windsor will be also employed for AMD 'processors of S Opteron, but will comprise a different casing, the casing-F, which carries the 1207 impressive pins. No detail was provided however as for what is the function of these additional pins, but an educated conjecture indicates to us that it is probably there to allow the banks of memory devoted by core of processor. All these processors will be manufactured using AMD 'process of S 90 the nanometer ONESELF, there 's no mention of 65 nanometer thus most probably will not see us any processor of 65 nanometer of AMD in 2006.
In 2006 we will also see the successor with Turion, AMD 'processor of mobile of S. Just like on the desktop machine we will see DDR2 and support of duel-core which is not very astonishing that AMD must remain competing with Intel 'processor nearest of S Yonah. AMD 'processor mobile of S new bears the code name of Taylor and, still, uses a different casing that Turion. There will be two different casings for Taylor really, to supply with the needs for secondary-book, socket-S1, where the constraints of space require a smaller package of processor. Other books will use same socket-m2 will see us on the desktop machine, also opening possibilities for the use of the processors of office in books. In spite of this capacity AMD beginning new mobile Athlon 64 based on the core of Windsor, but optimized for the power, in 2006.
A die-projectile of AMD of 'processor of S 130 nanometer Athlon 64.
Intel total and AMD are hard with work to lower their manufacturing costs by displacement with 65 and 90 nanometer, which also will help with the high execution and will reduce the power-consumption of their processors. Cedar Mill, Intel the 'Pentium 4 of S 65 nanometer, finally will put Pentium 4 at equal of AMD 'of S Athlon 64 in terms of execution, power-consumption and heat-production but is rather of short duration with the introduction on standby of Intel 'new architecture of S. AMD will not make the transition to 65 nanometer in 2006 but beginning the first DDR2 compatible Athlon 64 processors which should offer a light increase in execution above current GDR compatible Athlon 64. In 2006 late things should obtain still interesting when Intel beginnings their new architecture. On technology before mobile of Centrino, based on Intel the 'processor of S Yonah will be probably the mobile platform of the choice for 2006 unless AMD draws a turn out of its hat with Taylor.
AMD’s new processors
The recent tests with two of my preferred sites of material, TweakTown and HardOCP, put Phenom II at Juste above the Phenom old man, and just below best Core2s from Intel. IEA. If it were not enough that it does not beat what he replaces by much, he can hardly strike the levels of the performances of Intels of last year. And it is without mentioning the core i7s, which naturally cost twice more, but proves with a so enormous wire of execution which you start to wonder what is really the business.
The remainder of the continuation of dragon of the devices is always interesting to look at, however. It may be still that your system functions better with the material of AMD, according to what you made. But given the space of execution, this group is distressingly small. Here hopes that the still-very-competing video charts of AMD will keep them dissolving until they can withdraw something larger in the arena of processor.
Update: One to comment on specifies the review of Anandtech, which is considerably more favorable (I should have included it to start with). Always, I see my own processor (Core2 a duet E6750) competing with Phenom II on the majority of their tests, and it is not complete exactly. I should also mention that Phenom II is supposed being a fantastic overclocker.