AMD Quad Core 2007!

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From AMD's interview with ExtremeTech
"We're focused on the end value for the end-user community."

In a detailed briefing for analysts in New York on Friday, executives at Advanced Micro Devices painted the company as making "irreversible progress" into new architectures, specifically multicore microprocessors and 64-bit processing.

Executives confirmed that the company plans to enhance its Opteron enterprise processor line to four cores in 2007, adding focused optimizations to manage power and improve throughput.

Going forward, AMD executives said its progress will be defined by metrics like "throughput per watts per dollars", backed by specific technologies that it will try to establish as industry standards, rather than following rival Intel's lead

"We believe the purpose of our company is to reinvent the dynamics of the microprocessor industry," said Hector Ruiz, AMD's president, chairman and chief executive officer.

Future enhancements to the AMD core architecture will include per-core power management, improvements to the HyperTransport specification, secure execution, and even dedicated coprocessors, Chuck Moore, who oversees AMD's core microprocessor architectures, told analysts. Continued
 

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Originally posted by: Kensai
At what cost? :(


Who knows? These are preliminary plans, no one knew AMD's dual core prices untill only a few months before their release. I suspect nce 65 nanometer manufacturing kicks in these things wont be all that expensive, they will cost the same as todays dual-core chips.
 

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During the first quarter of 2005, AMD captured 27.8 percent of the total market for 4-way servers, he said. An AMD dual-core Opteron can perform about "13 SSL sessions per watt per second," a metric that highlighted AMD's emphasis on low-cost, high throughput architectures. An Intel two-way Xeon can process about 6, he said.

AMD Fanboys Rejoice!
 

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We're focused on the end value for the end-user community

Going forward, AMD executives said its progress will be defined by metrics like "throughput per watts per dollars", backed by specific technologies that it will try to establish as industry standards, rather than following rival Intel's lead.

AMD's lower-end PCs will emphasize power management and manageability, In 2005, AMD's blade PC offerings will each consume about 30 watts of power. By 2007, that will be restricted to under 10 watts, Seyer said.

In 2007, however, AMD's desktop PC platforms will shift again, to DDR-3 memory as well as the second generation of PCI Express, which has yet to be ratified as an independent industry standard. Intel developed the first generation of the standard, but has since pulled back to allow others to push it forward, with only one vote in the PCI Special Interest Group, according to Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing for Intel, in an interview on Tuesday.

AMD also plans to enhance its value Sempron processor with 64-bit capabilities.

In 2007, AMD's mobile platforms will add WiMAX support.

Under development, the upcoming HyperTransport 3.0 will feature three times the throughput of today's connections, Moore said, part of AMD's strategy to improve the connections both inside the chip and off of it

Naturally, AMD plans enhancements to the cores themselves. AMD is developing new multimedia-specific instructions for the Athlon 64 architecture, Moore said, as well as additional enhancements to the floating-point architecture.

AMD is also eyeing "cluster based multithreading," a technology specifically designed for large enterprise clusters. The technology would allow other microprocessors to share specific blocks on the chip, such as the floating-point unit. Designing this technology in will cost an additional 50 percent in die resources, but yield an additional 80 percent improvement in performance, Moore said.

Although AMD currently manufactures its microprocessors at a single fab, a second, Fab 36, is nearly complete next door to AMD's Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany. Scheduled to come on line early next year, the fab will initially produce 90-nm wafers but quickly shift over to 65-nm lines, said Daryl Ostrander, senior vice president of logic and manufacturing.

Through a partnership with Chartered Semiconductor ? and IBM, who helped refine the manufacturing process ? AMD will be able to pass excess demand onto Chartered, which Ostrander characterized as a "flex fab".

Scheduled to come on line in 2006, Chartered's lines will be able to supply roughly 10 million processors in 2006 and about 30 million in 2007, according to a chart Ostrander displayed. Chartered will supply 65-nm chips in 2007.

A formal process of "continued technology improvement" will help AMD install new technologies using manufacturing processes. Meanwhile, 45-nm development is on track, he said.
 

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Interesting read... looks like my planned s939 build will be very very obsolete within a year or two ;)
 

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Originally posted by: ariafrost
Interesting read... looks like my planned s939 build will be very very obsolete within a year or two ;)

I am guessing these DDR3 Quad Core processors will not be out untill then end of 2007, so don't worry about it too much since they wont be avalable in mass quantities until 2008. Expect to get 3 to 4 years or more out of your current system, by then Quadcore will be cheap and semprons may even be dual core!
 

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Originally posted by: magomago
only thing i'm not liking is the switch to DDR2 for just a year and then again to DDR3

It was expected from the start that AMD would jump from DDR directly to DDR3 because DDR2 isn't reall that good performer on AMD.

The switch to DDR2 is because of the recent advances on DDR2 timings and the bandwidth performance advantage for dual cores and servers over DDR.
 

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intel=mucho bandwidth requirement
amd=low latencies

ddr2 has really high latencies compared to ddr400. moving to dd2 would make no sense until the latencies were as low as ddr. doing it before then would only hurt performance
 

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AMD's management has proven to handle their business exceptionally well in the last three years. They know exactly what they are doing. Research and development on a fast and steady increase waiting to fill in their sales force when the timing is right.
 

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Originally posted by: Regs
AMD's management has proven to handle their business exceptionally well in the last three years. They know exactly what they are doing. Research and development on a fast and steady increase waiting to fill in their sales force when the timing is right.

I just suspect the emp.... intel will strike back at some time.
 

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I have not heard any plans from Intel on their dual core future.

Intel doesn't have a dual core future. Nor any future, for that matter.

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Contrary to your belief, Intel's dual core future seems very interesting and holds much promise.

Be mindful of your thoughts, young jedi.


Oh BTW I just wanted to add this in as an exmaple.... Super resolution , a little off topic but very cool. It just goes to show what they have planned for the FUTURE.