AMD Demonstrates World's First Native Quad-Core X86 Server

[dduummyy]

The funy thing about this pic is that if you measure the length and width of one Core 2 die(place a sheet of paper on the monitro and mark the edges of one core) and then place those measurements onto the Barcelona die, you will see that Barcelona is only slightly larger, with 4 cores and 2MB L3.

That's not a huge die size.

Yes, I thought we had this discussion -- it is roughly slightly over 300 mm^2 die size. 1 Core 2 Duo is 143 mm^2, so 2 are 286 mm^2.... 300 mm^2 is huge.

It is the largest Die AMD has made yet.
never trust anyone with a purple shirt and tie! 😀

 

[ajfink]

And his tie is CROOKED! Ohs nos.

 

[the_vorlon]

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~114496,00.html

Wow... Intel has been sampling native quad core 45nm processors for a while now (like a month). So this is hardly the world's first native Quad Core CPU. It's the second.
Nehalem? I've not seen a single thing about it. That's supposed to be the first Intel native quad as of late.

I do not believe the 45 nano samples were "native" quadcore - as defined as 4 core monolithic. Preyne (sp?) cores are basically 45 nano shrinks of Conroe - 6 megs of Cache, 1333 FSB, (aledgedly) Hyperthreading that actually works, and a few more goodies, but still 2 dual cores that share a subsctrate.

The big news a half multible clock speeds, so instead of the current Conroes at 1.83, 2.13, 2.4 2.67 and 2.93 ghz we get things in smaller 166 mhz intervals

Preyne cores will start 3.0 ghz then go to 3.16, 3.33, 3.5 and 3.67 ghz

Amazing to think that a year from now intels entry level chip will be faster than todays EE EE6800