According to ZDNet, the normal battles between Intel & AMD have gotten kind of bad lately- due to nondisclosures for upcoming chips which will have new SSE extentions. Problem is, neither manufacturer will be on the same page for the next two years. What this will cause is AMD and Intel chips having different innate instruction sets and perfomance.
Read more here.
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I know I entered this as a brief entry; but I really need to emphasize it's importance. We are talking about a delta from compatible chips. AMD & Intel are going in different directions; and people aren't going to know why application/game performance vary so greatly depending on which brand of CPU they use.
I really felt that I would waste too much space to explain the nuances of what was going on; thus I made the short post.
Please, read the article in the link. It's very important! Leave your comments; it really is a critical issue!
One thing is for sure, they better figure this thing out. Just because both companies wanted to be greedy by not disclosing information to one another in a timely manner, they are going to put consumers in a bad position. Not only that, they will force application developers to spend more money to accommodate both Intel and AMD?
I'm not buying either chip and will wait the two years out until they get on the same page. That was just dumb!!!
Either they figure it out or I may not be buying chips for the next couple of years. It's tricky enough knowing simply what video adapter I want, now I have to know if my OS is going to fully support my proc, and which set of problems do I prefer to go with?
Have they been taking dance lessons from the RIAA and MPAA?
Hey guys, no reason to panic. What the author forgot to mention is this not even close to a major part of a processor. Did anyone not buy a processor because it didn't have MMX, or 3DNow!. Not really. Both Intel and AMD have always had different SSE, and most always, larger software developers either specialized in which one benefits their program, i.e. if you needed better video performance, they would include calls to both SSEs, but on their packaging they would indicate "works best with MMX" or "Optimized for 3DNow!".
Don't worry guys...the sky is not falling.
Thanks for that, Malcolm. I'm not feeling quite so irritated now.
But it's still one more piece of data to throw in the hopper when I'm trying to decide what to buy, and there's enough of that from the marketing droids already.
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