Nathan Brookwood
Nathan Brookwood
exploit multiple performance silicon single winning
Henceforth, those who need more performance must exploit parallelism -- multiple processors, often on a single silicon die. AMD is winning the dual-core server race.
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Even two years out, I think what P.A. Semi brings out will be impressive because very few companies have focused on high performance and low power for less heat, and fewer still have focused on using the PowerPC architecture with all the software that's evolved for that.
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AMD is clearly ahead on performance and per-watt power advantages, which more and more customers are sensitive to. And for the first half of this year at least, AMD's lead in these categories will accelerate.
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That, of course, is the 64-bit question, ... Whether the AMD box can perform like IA-64 on Itanium. If the AMD box can do it, we'd be looking from a purely architectural point of view at a superior solution, because Intel is forcing people to make a compromise.
box forcing intel looking people perform point purely superior view whether
That, of course, is the 64-bit question. Whether the AMD box can perform like IA-64 on Itanium. If the AMD box can do it, we'd be looking from a purely architectural point of view at a superior solution, because Intel is forcing people to make a compromise.
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But here the performance per watt is dramatically better than the industry standard and that to me is an adequate motivation to consider Sun. The cores themselves may not be very elegant, but what's relevant here is whether they'll do the job companies need them to do. From what I've seen Sun plans to deliver that.
intel last performance
I think they're getting back on track. The performance benchmarks that they demonstrated, these are all of the things Intel couldn't do last year.
number performance rather
Multi-core is the new megahertz. If you want more performance rather than ramping up the megahertz, now it's all about ramping up the number of cores.
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In the case of Japan, there was smoke and there was fire, at least according to the FTC there, and we'll see what happens to the Korean one.
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Having a more intelligent quad-core, as opposed to the dual dual-core, translates to better power usage and, in theory, far better performance. The advantages are that you get a higher degree of sharing with caches and buses.
bragging rights
Sun, for at least two weeks, had bragging rights about that.
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He certainly goes for unconventional, creative approaches, like licensing Sun's software based on the number of employees that a customer had. So in that regard, I'm optimistic.
architecture lose market share survive time
I don't know that Apple's market share can survive another architecture shift. Every time they do this, they lose more customers.
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The old AMD used to sell its chips at a 25 to 50 percent discount to what Intel was charging. The new AMD more or less prices at parity (to Intel) and delivers higher levels of performance.