AMD may have held back on dual core....

[clarkey01]

http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2000_09_27_double_pumped_core.html

 

[Yanagi]

Wow. That was an interesting read. I dont think they held it back for 5 years but they worked out the idea 5 years ago or thereabouts.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Lets see how long it takes you to get an idea like that from concept to production. I'm pretty sure it's going to take more than 5 years.

Stuff like that takes a lot of time. And AMD took their time to make sure they had everything working perfectly before they shoved dual cores out the door.

 

[sangyup81]

it might be a good thing they didn't do dual core on a 130nm process

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: sangyup81
it might be a good thing they didn't do dual core on a 130nm process

Definately... that's one of the main reasons we haven't seen dual cores until now. At 130nm the die would be HUGE.

 

[clarkey01]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
Lets see how long it takes you to get an idea like that from concept to production. I'm pretty sure it's going to take more than 5 years.

Stuff like that takes a lot of time. And AMD took their time to make sure they had everything working perfectly before they shoved dual cores out the door.[/q

The K8 was in the works from late 98. They had dual cores floating around the company in feb 2004.