3,5 times cheaper 6-core CPUs announced!
Good news for the wannabe speed demons among us:
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Who knows? According to the trickle-down principle our next smartphone and tablet might have quadcore CPUs!
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AMD One-Ups Intel With Cheap Desktop Chips
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday announced inexpensive desktop microprocessors with up to six cores to put pricing pressure on rival Intel. AMD's new chips include the fastest AMD Phenom II X6 1075T six-core processor, which is priced 'under $250' for 1,000 units, AMD said. AMD also introduced a range of dual-core and quad-core Athlon II and Phenom II desktop microprocessors priced between $76 and $185. By comparison, Intel's cheapest six-core processor is the Core i7-970 processor, which is priced at $885 per 1,000 units, according to a price list on Intel's website.
AMD One-Ups Intel With Cheap Desktop Chips
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday announced inexpensive desktop microprocessors with up to six cores to put pricing pressure on rival Intel. AMD's new chips include the fastest AMD Phenom II X6 1075T six-core processor, which is priced 'under $250' for 1,000 units, AMD said. AMD also introduced a range of dual-core and quad-core Athlon II and Phenom II desktop microprocessors priced between $76 and $185. By comparison, Intel's cheapest six-core processor is the Core i7-970 processor, which is priced at $885 per 1,000 units, according to a price list on Intel's website.
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Who knows? According to the trickle-down principle our next smartphone and tablet might have quadcore CPUs!
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These are the key questions to ask when it comes to not only laptops, but premium devices that are designed to use as little electricity as possible (like Macs). It's not about "ooohhh, it's six-core!" and cost.
That said, these chips might become quite popular on cheap Windows McDesktops. Gotta look at the razor-thin profit margins of those things, after all.
According to the trickle-down principle our next smartphone and tablet might have quadcore CPUs!
Not AMD ones though. Quad-core ARM chips are coming in 2012 or thereabouts - 1.2GHz Samsung Aquila. Cortex A15 is designed to go up to quad 2.5GHz but we'll see.
Not AMD ones though. Quad-core ARM chips are coming in 2012 or thereabouts - 1.2GHz Samsung Aquila. Cortex A15 is designed to go up to quad 2.5GHz but we'll see.
I'm quite anxious to see dual core ARM A9s in a smartphone. Also OOO, so they should be waaay faster than the A8s in the current iPhone and iPad. In fact, I think once these hit the iPhone and iPad it'll open up new possibilities as far as what software will be written to do, ie more content creation.
Sure, it's six-core, but: Can these chips keep up with the Core i-Series in terms of pure speed? How power-efficient are the chips (very important with laptops)? Are the integrated graphics on par, both under speed and power efficiency, with nVidia's GPU's? Are nVidia GPU's allowed onto computers with these chips?
These are the key questions to ask when it comes to not only laptops, but premium devices that are designed to use as little electricity as possible (like Macs). It's not about "ooohhh, it's six-core!" and cost.
That said, these chips might become quite popular on cheap Windows McDesktops. Gotta look at the razor-thin profit margins of those things, after all.
Sure, whatever ifs and buts apply. But whichever way you look at it these CPUs will drive the cost of CPUs in general down, and their performance up. That's good for consumers. Us.
In other words, six physical cores roughly match four cores with hyperthreading. The X6 is AMD's somewhat brute-force play to get back into the mid-range CPU market. It's a good processor at $300 and comparable to what Intel is selling for $300.
However, it's no competition for Intel's $900+ six-core processors. Not even close.
it's no competition for Intel's $900+ six-core processors. Not even close.
But it will drive down the cost of multi-core processors. All of them. And that was my point.
In fact, it is already having that effect: see this.
Good news for the wannabe speed demons among us:
it'll only be speedy for applications that leverage the cores concurrently