Why would it be likely that Sandy Bridge will beat BD? BD is a completely new arch, while Sandy Bridge is supposedly a fine tuning of the i7s arch. If BD destroys the i7 it has a good chance of beating SB.
I can't express how good it feels to see MCMT become a product. It's
been public for years, but it gets no respect until it is in a product.
It would have been better if I had stayed at Intel to see it through.
I know that I won't get any credit for it. (Except from some of the guys
who were at AMD at the time.) But it feels good nevertheless.
The only bad thing is that some guys I know at AMD say that Bulldozer is
not really all that great a product, but is shipping just because AMD
needs a model refresh. "Sometimes you just gotta ship what you got."
If this is so, and if I deserve any credit for CMT, then I also deserve
some of the blame. Although it might have been different, better, if I
had stayed.
I came up with MCMT in 1996-2000 while at the University of Wisconsin.
It became public via presentations.
I brought MCMT back to Intel in 2000, and to AMD in 2002.
I was beginning to despair of MCMT ever seeing the light of day. I
thought that when I left AMD in 2004, the MCMT ideas may have left with
me. Apparently not. I must admit that I am surprised to see that the
concept endured so many years - 5+ years after I left, 7+ years to
market. Apparently they didn't have any better ideas.
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^Thats quite an old post but thinking about it would bring this up:
K10 was a new arch compared to Core 2. yet it took a second gen of K10 to actually compete with Core 2 evenly and outpace it finally.
A new arch does not always gurantee a pounding on a older arch or a arch refresh.
From what I can tell it looks like BD will finally be 4-issue per core, so that should be quite an improvement over the K8 - K10.5 3-issue.
But since it's a new arch on a new node with a new process (HKMG), that's a lot of items for AMD & GF to collectively juggle. I'd bet it has a degree of teething trouble, much like Barcelona did, and take a while to straighten out.
It seems theyve got an early jump on it, if rumors are true, samples going out earlier than thought.
Theyll need all that time to squeeze out all the bugs and perf
It seems theyve got an early jump on it, if rumors are true, samples going out earlier than thought.
Theyll need all that time to squeeze out all the bugs and perf
Let's hope they don't squeeze out the perf too much - leave it rather 'perforated' I guess 😀..