Blue Core

[WildRhino]

WTF is a blue core Athlon that I read about?

 

[slvr_phoenix]

It's AMD's secret project that no one wants you to know about. Now that they've seen you know you'll have to move before they can track you down. It's all a conspiracy. Run while you still can!

- Sanity is purely based on point-of-view.

 

[slvr_phoenix]

Seriously though, I seem to remember something about a testing of copper production chips instead of using aluminum. And the only way to tell the copper ones from the aluminum was something about one was green and one was blue. I think the copper one was even blue, to defy all logic since it burns green (or something like that).

Other than that they were the exact same chip though. No one performed any better than the other. Still, for AMD to not make it well known you must think something is up with that...

- Sanity is purely based on point-of-view.

 

[WildRhino]

Cheers Phoenix. House sealed tighter than a crack house - they will never take me alive! AMD the new Microsoft

 

[slvr_phoenix]

Come to think of it ... I've been wondering about the engineering department at AMD lately. First that and then the fact that they failed at writing their own Hammer emulation software and had to hire someone else to do it...

Is this all a sign that the engineering department at AMD is so busy working on a good chip that they're forgetting those 'little things'? Or is it a sign that the engineering department at AMD is inadiquate for the task?

I makes one ponder...

- Sanity is purely based on point-of-view.

 

[WildRhino]

Far too cynical Phoenix. Until they produce a P4/Rambus scenario I think we should keep faith.

Conversely, they are all cashing in their options and laughing all the way to the Intel crack shop.

 

[slvr_phoenix]

Hey, I did say that it's possible the problem stems from the engineers working so hard on a new chip. (I hope they're still not working on their first Hammer... That should be going to the FABs to produce soon if they want to keep their roadmap accurate.)

I personally don't trust either AMD or Intel right now as both are showing possible signs of insanity. Intel's managers should have let the engineers put the second FPU into the P4 even if it meant a larger die size. The P4 has such a short life span anyway, would it really have made a difference?

And AMD can't write their own software. That kind of scares me because you would think the people that would know their new processor the best are them. So they should be the best company to write the emulator.

Both companies are scaring me.

But at least neither scares me as much as Apple does. Heh heh. There's nothing worse than a Macintosh...

- Sanity is purely based on point-of-view.

 

[Guest]

it is/was a dye in the compound to polish the cores of the newly minted proccessors.
the blue ones came from germany and the green ones are from austin, tx.
the color realy don't matter just where they come from.
the ones from germany have copper interconnects and the ones from austin use aluminium.
all durons come from austin and all t-birds 1gig+ are from germany.
i have heard some t-bird 750+ came from dresden (germany)