Wow! Check these new AMD patents out!

[Eli]

Saw this over at AMDZone, didn't see it posted here..

This looks very, very interesting. I'm afraid it's a little over my head though.

Sledgehammer Double Pumped Core?

 

[Howard]

Holy crap

On-chip SMP, and 4-wat multithreading!

 

[Eli]

Bump for the morning

I never really substantiated it in my head that the K8 Sledgehammer is going to have 2 processors in one core, even though I remember hearing it before. That is really, really.. cool.


Hmm.. I wonder if the K8 is going to be socket-A? That would rule.

Edit: maybe 2 cores in one processor is more accurate, heh

 

[Goi]

Its not exactly on chip SMP. That would be what the IBM Power4 processors will be doing. According to the article, its a cross between that and on-chip SMT, which is what the Alpha 21464 is doing. Both methods are very impressive, so I would think what AMD is doing will be very impressive too, assuming it has enough memory bandwidth to sustain it.

 

[MadRat]

The unified L1 cache for multiple cores is the coolest idea to me out of all that.

 

[Goi]

Its not really unified, if you look at the diagram. It still uses the standard Harvard split cache architecture(separate I-cache and D-cache). However, according to the diagram, the cache will be shared between the 2 "cores". Apparently its multi-ported, so that's cool.

 

[NFS4]

AMD had better watch out for Rambus lawyers

 

[Howard]

damnit, stop reminding me

 

[Sohcan]

AMD is fuxored...don't you know that Rambus owns the patent to SMP? I hear that they also own the rights to integrated logic circuits.

 

[Sephiroth_IX]

No it wont run on Socket A. It will run on a new Lightning Data Bus or something, meaning a new socket./

 

[Vrangel]

<< I hear that they also own the rights to integrated logic circuits. >>


TI had those patents.After some court decisions it turned out patents are unenforceable.
Too broad or something. Hope it will be the same with Rambus.