| ScratchMonkey 2005-07-21, 8:42 pm |
| Hellmark <hellmark@gmail.XXXXSPAM.com> wrote in
news:pan.2005.07.21.20.21.34.440436@gmail.XXXXSPAM.com:
quote:
> Thats surprising, because it used to be, AMD stuck with one chipsetting.
> This will be the 3rd chip change in about 2-3 years.
Maybe they have more engineering capacity now and can keep up with Intel's
announcements. This sounds like an incremental change, with the same core
but more off-chip stuff brought on-chip to reduce chip-to-chip delays.
Given the die shrink going to .90 micron, that means more space to squeeze
in other features. I think this year's cores brought the advanced memory
controller on-chip, but they ended up with plenty of room to bring in the
PCI-E controller. The big constraint on modern chips is pin count, not die
space, so the big delay is getting the infrastructure in place for the new
package (socket, motherboard, heat sink).
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