Is that it for AMD?

[Novuake]

Not another one of these posts... Ugh... There are so many. AMD will survive in some form another. i am sure of that. Maybe not as Intel competition, but they will survive. Just as VIA still survives...

 

[fazers_on_stun]

Sorry in advance as I realise this is a total noob thing to say,

Why don't coder's just code to a standard coding standard and leave the different CPU's to interpret the coding and use which instruction set they have to run the code ?
I believe that specifically coded for the hardware is faster, isn't doing so the same or similar to a company coding a game to run optimised on a Nvidia GPU ?
I guess you could say that its more important that a CPU runs to a standard than a graphics card.

@ abundantcore,

Was this an Intel compiler ? That is did Intel say hay guys our new chip works really well it has some great features, use this compiler ?
If they did then why on earth would a coder not check this compiler before using it ?

Sorry to interrupt I'm a little out of my depth here as my understanding of CPU instruction sets etc is very basic. just trying to learn and understand.

Mactronix

Modern x86 CPUs have specialized functions like SIMD that can greatly speed up certain operations, but it takes extensions to standard x86 code, like SSE or AVX, to implement them. The CPUs themselves maintain backwards compatibility so an i7-3770K could probably run software from the early 1980s written for an 8088 CPU (unlike modern OSes like Win7 which won't even run a number of games written for XP).

While AMD supports most of Intel's SSE and AVX extensions, they include a few specific instructions to their own CPUs, so a specific compiler supporting those instructions is needed in order to fully make use of AMD CPUs. AFAIK for years AMD didn't bother to develop their own compiler or work with the software devs, and they still don't anywhere near the extent Intel does as they simply don't have the $$ to spend on such efforts.

 

[mactronix]

Modern x86 CPUs have specialized functions like SIMD that can greatly speed up certain operations, but it takes extensions to standard x86 code, like SSE or AVX, to implement them. The CPUs themselves maintain backwards compatibility so an i7-3770K could probably run software from the early 1980s written for an 8088 CPU (unlike modern OSes like Win7 which won't even run a number of games written for XP).

While AMD supports most of Intel's SSE and AVX extensions, they include a few specific instructions to their own CPUs, so a specific compiler supporting those instructions is needed in order to fully make use of AMD CPUs. AFAIK for years AMD didn't bother to develop their own compiler or work with the software devs, and they still don't anywhere near the extent Intel does as they simply don't have the $$ to spend on such efforts.

Thanks for the info.

Mactronix