Now they can wait 4000 cycles between memory accesses.

AMD can promise whatever they want but until it's on the market, at a competitive price, with competitive performance to whatever Intel are shipping at the time, then it's no better than vapourware.

So, we will be seeing this in 2014?

AMD can make what ever they want, but Intel has the best stuff coming out.

3 years before its 64 cores.

Will AMD find random processors at the bar... then proceed to drug and kidnap them... and force them into service aboard a random sea vessel?

Ooooh dat's purty!

Sweet.

Advanced Micro Devices has always been my favorite and i will never give up my 64bit for multiple cores on a 32bit, i need the 64bit win xp for my 4GB of ram...

@kbraun819:

ahh yes 4gigs of ram, if it were only enough...

I unfortunatly has a incident with my Vista 64bit install and had to revert to a 32bit for a few months..

College is about to break for summer and I am going to take a bit of my free time to re-install vista 64bit again.

The speed increase is unbelievable...

Photoshop and InDesign eat memory filling up and slowing things down in the emulated 32bit enviroment of the Q6700 possibilities...

So...3 cores going to fail and AMD introducing a "new" 9 core chip?

Cores is the new MHz

href="#c5275779">trickstyle2:
If im not wrong they are gonna realease a six core Istanbul and then realease 12 shanghai which is two Istanbul in one chip but with hpt 3.0

lets hope its a new top noch chip and things stop being ugly for amd, the bar is very high now of course, time will tell

Has up to 12 cores? really? is this necessary? Software developers are barely keeping up with dual cores, I think this "core battle" is getting outta hand. Don't get me wrong, technology should and is always advancing, but comon..

I am an AMD fan but they screwed up bigtime. Instead of pushing their CPUs to keep up with Intel (which they were for a while) they got obsessed with this cross-platform nonsense with ATI. They 3Dfx'ed themselves.

@heroineworshipper: ouch :)

At this rate, AMD is going to die.

Come on AMD, you were nice, you can be again, I just know it, right?... Right? :(

yea, 32 bit xp can have up to 32 cores, so this is a step in the right direction, heck 32 1ghz processors are way better than 8 3 ghz processors right?? 32 vs 24?

I was thinking of implanting one of these directly into my brain when they are released into the wild. However, since most of my core programming does not support multithreading, I'm having second non-multithreaded thoughts.

@kbraun819: what the hell are you rambling about? Intel's multicore stuff is all 64bit.

If they actually do it, it might stand up to Intel's procs, finally.

@exobite: wrong!example: with 32 1ghz cores u can do 32 single threaded tasks slowly with each app getting 1ghz of processing power!
while the 8 3ghz cores might not multitask as good as the 32 cores but it will finish processing its 8 apps much much faster than the 32 1ghz!

we'll always find the 8core 3ghz processor faster!until we start to use 32 apps at once(highly unlikely)!

and yes the 32 core 1ghz processor will be good when oses and programs hav 32 threads! but we are not there yet!most apps are just starting to use 2threads or some with even 4 threads!

I shall call it the unicorn chip...

haha i just learnt was socket to socket was yesterday in school

@nidinp:

i guess so but being able to put all of the backround procceses that are normally open and dont need and proccessing power (i have like 40 right now and im barely doing anything worth wile,) on two dedicated proccesors would be better than using up 50 precent of resources on all 2 cores,

i guess it depends on what you do,

We need AMD to pull something good out. The more pressure there is on Intel to start actually producing their processors and lowering their prices, the better.

@frigg: ha ha....

@kbraun819: Intel's processors are 64 bit, too.

AMD Is not out of the Count yet! I remember the Same back in the early 80's. It seems that we forget.
Intel has awesome chips out now and I use them. But AMD always comes back and comes back strong. With out AMD we would not have half the Processors in our machines that we have now. So I would advise not to let AMD slip out of sight as we will be stuck with what Intel wants to give us.
And I remember those days. And I remember Intel working big time to catch up.
No AMD is far from dead,and I would bet that when they get the chips out we will be wanting one. Even the people who are hammering AMD at this time.

@Deadalus: I'm a big fan of AMD too, but as of recently their products have been lackluster, so I agree with you in that I hope they manage to drop something that will shake the Intel boat. In the end I go with whatever is better, as it is right now that is Intel, so lets hope AMD steps up their game.