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Dual AMD ??

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Who else is disguested w/ amds dual mobos? anyone know of any that are out? Wasn;t that one of the BIG things for the atholons? I know it was something I was looking forward to.

And what of this 760? chipset? Does anyone know of anything? Infact the only reason why I'm using a p3 is because no sign of dual amd.

Oh and
[Rant]
For you mobo makers, if you intergrate ANYTHING, make it GOOD, and make it so it can be COMPLETLY disabled. Where the os/cmos/apps, will never know it is there.
[/rant]
 
Unfortunately NFS4 is right. Latest word on the street is that AMD-760MP won't be out before Q1/2001. Personally I prepare myself to be dissapointed, and consider AMD-760MP mobos to be available on Q2 at earliest. Building a dual-Athlon chipset is a very complex task and although AMD demonstrated a dual Tbird system a while ago, CPU/chipset business is well know for it's delays and long perioids between announcement&volume availability. I mean just look what happened to DDR SDRAM which was supposed to be here late summer/2000...
 
Would you rather them release the motherboard now, then recall it in two months after a major flaw is discovered (like someone else does)?
 
I agree with Ben... AMD is on a roll and they should keep releasing good products... now is not a good time to pull an Intel. 😛
 
IMO AMD should innovate some more... the Athlon line is becoming stagnant. How long can AMD rely on an architecture that they didn't even design?
 
IMO AMD should innovate some more... the Athlon line is becoming stagnant.

Where have you been for the last few months 🙂

AMD has innovating after the Athlon, quite a bit
- x86-64 instruction set looks damn impressive, with SSE/SSE2 support combined with sixteen general purpose registers, this ISA will bring floating point performance of a x86-complicant CPU to the next level
- LTD bus
- Patents conserning on-die multithreading support
- From other patents they've filed recently can be determined, that they're planning on implementing dual pipeline CPU core, pipelines operating at phased clock which brings latency of some instructions down to 1/2


How long can AMD rely on an architecture that they didn't even design?

Intel relied on P6 architecture for more than five years, without plans to phase it out anytime soon. I'm not saying AMD can rely on Athlon that long, I'm just saying it's full potential is yet to be seen.

K7 core architecture is 100% AMD's design. They only licensed the EV6 bus.
 
I won't touch the first part of your statement, as jpprod already handled that, what I will say is that the last part is an absolute fallacy.



<< How long can AMD rely on an architecture that they didn't even design? >>



Now, who said that Amd did not design the K7? The K7 was worked on entirely by amd, and while they may have obtained licences for certain parts of it (Ev6 Bus), the cpu was their own creation. You may very well be confusing the K7 with the K6 which was a nextgen design that amd aquired after purchasing the company.
 
With Compaq as one of the largest OEMs on AMD's side of the turf right now, I can almost assure you that Compaq will lend a helping hand to AMD where the MP stuff goes. Remember, Compaq owns Digital who owns the Alpha processor who the Athlon bus design came from. Now, considering that Compaq builds some of the best servers in the business, to include servers with Alpha processors, Compaq has a strong interest in AMD breaking into this market. Compaq and Intel are not very cozy anymore and Compaq will take up sides with just about anyone who will provide them with processors that lower their manufacturing costs while still remaining the performance king. I think that we will see MP systems and servers a little sooner than AMD states. That is what is going to drive the final nail into Intel's coffin. AMD in the enterprise market will catapult them into the lead. Mark my words!
 


<< pull an intel >>



Lol, that's very true. AMD is getting alot of respect for selling good quality and bang for the buck. Stability is becoming better with each new generation. Hopefully AMD's efforts with the price cuts will get them into more prebuilt machines. While we all build our own, the majority sold are prebuilts and that's where they'll make their money. I've been buyin AMD since my 486 because i thought that intel needed competition. No intel will get a run for their money. Their chips cost more and in some of the flyers in my paper i see more AMD based computers than intel. All the highend are thunder birds and that leaves only the low end for intel to pedal their celerons (Durons are so much better but they can't be sold in a cheap prebuilt because of lack of cheap socket A boards). I can wait because i can't afford a new system or board right now.
 
&quot;Pull an Intel&quot;

Excellent quote, Mutilator. Speaks volumes about the image of Intel in the minds of computer enthusiasts. Perhaps we don't account for a significant percentage of computer sales, but I'm sure we influence a significant number.

Craig
 
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