LOL! Friend of Mine Pictured in Anandtech "Penryn" Article!

[GTaudiophile]

On page 3 of this January 27 article there is this picture of the supposed "Penryn" team.

The guy in the upper-right-hand-side of the photo in the lime-green shirt.

His name is Alex and works at the Folsom, CA plant. We were friends at GA Tech. He has both undergrad and graduate degrees from GT in CompE. We also traveled Europe together in the summer of 2002.

Anyway, I feel proud for him. Seems like a pretty cool thing to contribute to, the birth of a new, revolutionary processor.

Good job, Alex!

 

[Schadenfreude]

Awesome.

 

[Kromis]

Very nice!

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Seems like a pretty cool thing to contribute to, the birth of a new, revolutionary processor.

What revolutionary new processor?

Penryn is an evolutionary step in processor design, it's not revolutionary.


But congrats to your friend anyway.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Seems like a pretty cool thing to contribute to, the birth of a new, revolutionary processor.

What revolutionary new processor?

Penryn is an evolutionary step in processor design, it's not revolutionary.

Using that arguement, nothing is revolutionary.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Seems like a pretty cool thing to contribute to, the birth of a new, revolutionary processor.

What revolutionary new processor?

Penryn is an evolutionary step in processor design, it's not revolutionary.


But congrats to your friend anyway.

what does it take to be revolutionary?

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Malak

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Seems like a pretty cool thing to contribute to, the birth of a new, revolutionary processor.

What revolutionary new processor?

Penryn is an evolutionary step in processor design, it's not revolutionary.

Using that arguement, nothing is revolutionary.

Not true at all. I don't know anything about this new processor, so I can't defend his exact argument; however, there is a distinct difference.

 

[secretanchitman]

its the first processor to be at 45nm...at least i think its the first...

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: Malak

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Seems like a pretty cool thing to contribute to, the birth of a new, revolutionary processor.

What revolutionary new processor?

Penryn is an evolutionary step in processor design, it's not revolutionary.

Using that arguement, nothing is revolutionary.

Not true at all. I don't know anything about this new processor, so I can't defend his exact argument; however, there is a distinct difference.

Well from what I saw of the change it seemed revolutionary to me, but there is a grey line between these two words and it doesn't help that it's just a letter difference either

 

[bigdog1218]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Seems like a pretty cool thing to contribute to, the birth of a new, revolutionary processor.

What revolutionary new processor?

Penryn is an evolutionary step in processor design, it's not revolutionary.


But congrats to your friend anyway.

what does it take to be revolutionary?

A processor made from a new material, say SiC, would be revolutionary. This is evolutionary. I actually had a conversation about this at work a little while back, and everyone agreed the term revolutionary is thrown around too much in the semiconductor industry and it's basically a marketing term.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Malak

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Seems like a pretty cool thing to contribute to, the birth of a new, revolutionary processor.

What revolutionary new processor?

Penryn is an evolutionary step in processor design, it's not revolutionary.

Using that arguement, nothing is revolutionary.

That's incorrect.

The transistor was revolutionary, because before that, you only had vaccum tubes to do the fast switching and amplification.

Look at the word "revolutionary"- to be revolutionary, something has to start a revolution in way things are currently done. The transistor completely took over from the vacuum tube in most applications.

Likewise, integrated circuits were a revolution. Instead of using discrete parts, you could etch everything onto a piece of silicon and have a huge number of interconnects all on a tiny chip. Now, ICs are in everything from your cell phone to your car, to kids' shoes.

A small upgrade of a device is NOT a revolutionary step. Going from a vacuum tube to a vacuum tube half the size was not a revolution. Going from a vacuum tube to a transistor was.

Penryn is not a revolutionary new chip design, it's only an incremental upgrade on an existing chip design. It's not even a totally new architecture.

 

[Malak]

I guess we'll just mark it up to marketing.

 

[msi1337]

:thumbsup:

 

[jadinolf]

In any event, thanks for the pic.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I called him immediately after I posted this and had a fun conversation.

My question for him was, "Where are the women on your team?" He just laughed

 

[thehstrybean]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Seems like a pretty cool thing to contribute to, the birth of a new, revolutionary processor.

What revolutionary new processor?

Penryn is an evolutionary step in processor design, it's not revolutionary.


But congrats to your friend anyway.

what does it take to be revolutionary?

Killing people and feasting on their rotting corpses...That's pretty revolutionary....


Congrats to your friend!! :beer:

 

[thehstrybean]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I called him immediately after I posted this and had a fun conversation.

My question for him was, "Where are the women on your team?" He just laughed

 

[LordMaul]

AHahaha, he sticks out like a sore thumb with that shirt.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Woo-Hoo, I see more Indian people than Chinese in there! I should send this picture to all the politicians out here who keep blabbering on and on about "We will outdo China one day...if you vote for us!"

Congrats to your friend!

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: thehstrybean

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Seems like a pretty cool thing to contribute to, the birth of a new, revolutionary processor.

What revolutionary new processor?

Penryn is an evolutionary step in processor design, it's not revolutionary.


But congrats to your friend anyway.

what does it take to be revolutionary?

Killing people and feasting on their rotting corpses...That's pretty revolutionary....


Congrats to your friend!! :beer:

Evolutionary = Building upon something earlier with the same basic design.

Revolutionary = something nearly or completely original that has heretofore been nonexistent/effectual.