Whatever that dang article was bout
Intel instead of ditching there fsb doubled it - DIB (dual inline bus) and it acutually managed to outperform an AMD system with similar specs, altho the power and heat was extreme as ever (shows the aging P4 fsb).
Only benches I've seen are of 3.46GHz 1066MHz Bently Xeon w/ DDR2 533MHz FB-DIMM's and Dual INDEPENDENT bus's, compared to 2.4GHz Opterons w/ DDR400. Their FB-DIMM's are their saving grace, and even then the Xeon's are only about 5-12% faster. Once Socket F comes out, and you throw in DDR2-800, the Xeon will go right back under the table where it belongs.
I think Intel is in a temper tantrum and the reason they won't resort to On-Chip Mem Controller, is because AMD already uses it. It's kinda like the reason Intel won't touch SOI, because IBM has so many patents on SOI and Intel isn't too fond of IBM.
I concur, wtf did that article say?
~~Mad Mod Mike, pimpin' the world 1 rig at a time
INTEL TIMINA - A COPPERMINE CELERON WITH A RAMBUS MEMORY CONTROLLER ON CHIP - YEARS BEFORE AMD (NOTHING NEW)
CSI - COMMON SYSTEM INTERFACE (REPLACES FSB)
SOI - NOTHING WRONG WITH PENTIUM M'S AND THEY DONT USE IT AND THERE COLDER THEN THE AMDS, INTEL DONT NEED IT
SOCKET F - YEAH AND CONROE WILL BE OUT THEN TO WHIP THEM WITH DDR2-800, DIB AND QUAD CORE.