Please let this happen to all x86 chips! Unfortunately even if they slowed down for a year Moto would start going into negative productivity instead of cranking it up to narrow the gap.
<strong>Please let this happen to all x86 chips! Unfortunately even if they slowed down for a year Moto would start going into negative productivity instead of cranking it up to narrow the gap.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's so true. Instead of trying to catch up, they'd just sit back and take a break. This is why Apple needs to light a fire under them and keep us competitive at LEAST! I am getting really sick of Motorola. They better have something big at MWNY.....
[quote]Please let this happen to all x86 chips! <hr></blockquote>
"Yeah, since my favorite CPU architecture can't keep up, let's hope everyone else slows down for us"
Thoroughbred is (supposedly) only a stopgap between Barton (basically TBred with SOI) and later on, Hammer (if you haven't already, check out the preliminary <a href="http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/937/3.html"; target="_blank">Hammer benchies</a>. While AMD warned that performance may not be that great with Hammer, these benchmarks speak otherwise...at only 800MHz (Hammer is expected to debut at 1600+ MHz), it performs on par with 1.6GHz P4!
Thoroughbred should improve once AMD smooths the 0.13 micron transition, TBred should scale better, hopefully.
Yeah, it seems AMD is having some problems at .13µ while Intel keeps on chugging. The relocation of the capacitors from the underside of Palomino to the topside of Thoroughbred is a bad sign. It's a step backward basically. Obviously they saw a benefit in doing it for Palomino...and Intel seems to be able to do it with the .13µ Northwood.
That's so true. Instead of trying to catch up, they'd just sit back and take a break. This is why Apple needs to light a fire under them and keep us competitive at LEAST! I am getting really sick of Motorola. They better have something big at MWNY..... </strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, because we all know Motorola has been sitting around on their butt's doing nothing for a year and a half.
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<strong>Please let this happen to all x86 chips! Unfortunately even if they slowed down for a year Moto would start going into negative productivity instead of cranking it up to narrow the gap.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That's so true. Instead of trying to catch up, they'd just sit back and take a break. This is why Apple needs to light a fire under them and keep us competitive at LEAST! I am getting really sick of Motorola. They better have something big at MWNY.....
"Yeah, since my favorite CPU architecture can't keep up, let's hope everyone else slows down for us"
Thoroughbred is (supposedly) only a stopgap between Barton (basically TBred with SOI) and later on, Hammer (if you haven't already, check out the preliminary <a href="http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/937/3.html"; target="_blank">Hammer benchies</a>. While AMD warned that performance may not be that great with Hammer, these benchmarks speak otherwise...at only 800MHz (Hammer is expected to debut at 1600+ MHz), it performs on par with 1.6GHz P4!
Thoroughbred should improve once AMD smooths the 0.13 micron transition, TBred should scale better, hopefully.
Whoa whoa...I thought capacitators were giant cylinders about the size of a large eraser...?
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That's so true. Instead of trying to catch up, they'd just sit back and take a break. This is why Apple needs to light a fire under them and keep us competitive at LEAST! I am getting really sick of Motorola. They better have something big at MWNY.....
Yeah, because we all know Motorola has been sitting around on their butt's doing nothing for a year and a half.
NOW AMD WILL BOW. BOW I SAY TO THE POWER OF MACINTSOH!
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Whoa whoa...I thought capacitators were giant cylinders about the size of a large eraser...?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Capacitors come in all shapes and sizes, sir.
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Capacitors come in all shapes and sizes, sir.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Technically, a wire is a capacitor, just a very small (low capacitance) one.