Showing posts with label amd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amd. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

SEE Fight


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.

Monday, August 20, 2007

Tilera Shows Off Their 64-Core Processor


Forget those punk-ass dual and quad-core processors out there, Chipmaker Tilera has developed a 64-core processor.

That's right, a 64-core processor!!!! Now that's just sick!!!

It has a bandwidth of something like 32TB per second and has a unique "mesh" architecture which allows each core to be decentralized an able to communicate more freely with other cores on its grid. Tilera thinks that this could be the beginning of hundreds or even thousands of cores using their new system.

Check more out here. [TG Daily via Engadget]