Can we start calling Bulldozer a 4 core CPU?

[BD231]

Here I was happy for just a die shirnk and AMD finds a way to negate any clock speed or thermal advance's 32nm would have brought us, on top of that they give AM3 owners no other options by locking their stars core into an incompatible socket .

As if AMD didn't already suck ballz in the performance department. You know what AMD ? I'm gonna starve you guys for a week, then make you a dinner, the best dinner you've ever seen. And then I'M GONNA RUIN IT. Just poor salt and peper on EVERYTHING till it's no longer edible. Only then will you know how I feel.

 

[sm625]

If you want a car analogy, BD is like a pontiac 301. That was a V8 with a 2BBL carb (2 ALU? lol) and about 130 horsepower. The stupidity of the 2 ALU design cannot be more obvious. Funniest thing is it still guzzled gas like a 4BBL V8.

 

[Cerb]

truthfully, i am under the impression that AMD was desperately wanting out. They were posed to sell but every serious contender decided that its not a good time to go up against intel in a market that is peaked and has little growth yr to yr. This didnt stop AMD from believing they could sell. Most of this BD hype was desperate smoke from a company that was looking for an ejection button. If you really look at this company and follow every act its pretty clear.

I heard AMD was real close to selling at good while back, but cold feet interfered. BD was a huge concern. Since then, all AMD did was hype and ploy tactics. I find it terrible that the billion dollars intel gave AMD never found its way into the bulldozer. As a matter of fact, its pretty much the same disaster at 32nm as it was at 45. oops

That would be doubly bad. What sane entity would want to buy AMD? Invest in, I could see, but 2004-5 was their last good chance to sell out, wasn't it?

 

[ocre]

That would be doubly bad. What sane entity would want to buy AMD? Invest in, I could see, but 2004-5 was their last good chance to sell out, wasn't it?

Its no joke! Some very wealthy, big names did consider, even if it was slightly. I did get a few whispers but anyone can look back through the headlines over the past yr. Articles wrote about insiders leaking out bits, rumors and such. It echoes pretty much the same. One very rich SW company may have been very seriously considering this. The biggest stop was intel. Well this is my take. The mighty x86! Transfer of cross license agreements couldnt be guaranteed either. Intel had just payed a hefty anti-competitive lump to wipe a clean slate and AMD won that round. I speculate intel was fully prepared to make any deal to buy AMD hardly worth the time and effort no matter how wealthy they may have been.

Intel has to play it smart to stay in the game. Intel have pretty much wiped the x86 road clean of all interference and they are planning petal to the medal, full hyper drive. Intel doesnt want ARM anywhere near their rear view mirror.

As far as AMD, i am disappointed to think they are no longer a pebble in the road for intel. I just cant see them really ever becoming relevant in this CPU space again. Especially now that AMD isnt even competitive in the budget of the buget spaces anymore. Intel is filling in all gaps, and giving more performance per dollar each and every time. AMD really needs to get it together, and like yesterday!