Opteron is old news!

[Clauzii]

Take a look at the launchpaper - it´s almost 4 years old now:

Old News

So now I wonder when it is gonna be 128bit CPUs

 

[Wingznut]

How long did you think it takes to design, perfect the process, debug, and manufacture a cpu?

 

[human2k]

Originally posted by: Wingznut
How long did you think it takes to design, perfect the process, debug, and manufacture a cpu?

Building a cpu is like rocket science.

 

[Metalloid]

Originally posted by: human2k

Originally posted by: Wingznut
How long did you think it takes to design, perfect the process, debug, and manufacture a cpu?

Building a cpu is like rocket science.

I have been overclocking my CPU for a few months and am still yet to make it to the moon. Oh well.

 

[Clauzii]

Originally posted by: Wingznut
How long did you think it takes to design, perfect the process, debug, and manufacture a cpu?

Building a cpu is like rocket science.[/quote]

I have been overclocking my CPU for a few months and am still yet to make it to the moon. Oh well.[/quote]

Oh you saved me 🙂

No to be honest, I understand a lot of the things involved in a new chip design, but isn´t it that the Opteron basically is a K7 with ADDED functionality aka 64bit?

Quote: ´While IA 64 is a completely new architecture, AMD has elected to extend the existing x86 architecture to include 64-bit computing.´

The IA 64 was a Totally NEW design, the Opteron NOT!

And the 0.13 designs have been used a lot already??

 

[TerryMathews]

Originally posted by: Clauzii
The IA 64 was a Totally NEW design, the Opteron NOT!

And the 0.13 designs have been used a lot already??

You have no understanding of CPU design, do you? Just because Opteron implements the x86 instruction set, does not mean it is anything at all like the Athlon, internally.

By your logic, 286==386==486==Pentium==K6==P2==P3==P4==Athlon because they all are x86. When in reality they are nothing alike.

 

[mechBgon]

Hehe, but I thought Intel started the IA64 project about ten years ago, Clauzii 😀 Aha, looks like I'm not far off: clickie clickie

It's 1994. Intel begins work on Merced (Itanium's codename during development). Merced will represent Intel's foray into the world of 64-bit computing. There is much excitement as details of this project slowly appear before the public from various non-official sources over the next few years. The general consensus is "Intel is doing right. They're keeping us on track." Remember, this is a great time for Intel. The company released the Pentium in 1993, Pentium Pro in 1995, and Pentium II in 1997. Skip forward a few years.

Even if you see the Sledgehammer as a glorified K7, Itanium's been in development a similar amount of time. I'm not going to bother looking up the Alpha...

 

[Tom]

It's just a bunch of little wires and some black stuff.