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AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

jackfrost132 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:15:13 EDT

@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.

jackfrost132

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

Deadalus — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:54:39 EDT

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

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

Rectangle — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:47:22 EDT

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

Rectangle

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

Discofunk — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:09:35 EDT

@frigg: ha ha....

Discofunk

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

hammertime1994 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:08:29 EDT

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.

hammertime1994

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

exobite — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:14:26 EDT

@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,

exobite

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

daversW — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:04:33 EDT

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

daversW

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

SomeAudioGuy — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:51:24 EDT

I shall call it the unicorn chip...

SomeAudioGuy

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

nidinp — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:01:49 EDT

@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!

nidinp

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

hammertime1994 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:10:44 EDT

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

hammertime1994

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

tutelary — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:00:01 EDT

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

tutelary

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

frigg — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:20:53 EDT

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.

frigg

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

exobite — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:20:50 EDT

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?

exobite

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

jackfrost132 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:46:50 EDT

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

jackfrost132

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

RebootEDC — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:04:53 EDT

At this rate, AMD is going to die.

RebootEDC

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

Joseph — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:51:07 EDT

@heroineworshipper: ouch :)

Joseph

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

kaneshadow — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:16:00 EDT

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.

kaneshadow

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

Megasparks — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:27:58 EDT

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..

Megasparks

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

pharago — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:09:36 EDT

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

pharago

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

kylemomsa.... — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:44:44 EDT

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

kylemomsa....

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

Devilboy — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:30:50 EDT

Cores is the new MHz

Devilboy

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

trickstyle2 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:52:43 EDT

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

trickstyle2

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

Veracity_Inexcusable — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:16:07 EDT

@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...

Veracity_Inexcusable

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

kbraun819 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:46:48 EDT

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

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

Evangelion — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:42:07 EDT

Sweet.

Evangelion

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

ByeBye — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:35:09 EDT

Ooooh dat's purty!

ByeBye

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

rdldr1 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:02:52 EDT

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?

rdldr1

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

Michai — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:58:44 EDT

3 years before its 64 cores.

Michai

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

CGrant — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:50:09 EDT

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

CGrant

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

archercc — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:48:19 EDT

So, we will be seeing this in 2014?

archercc

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

Step666 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:44:47 EDT

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.

Step666

AMD's "Shanghai" Chips Revealed

heroineworshipper — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:44:22 EDT

Now they can wait 4000 cycles between memory accesses.

heroineworshipper