news.moneycentral.msn.com— Citigroup Investment Research has confirmed from industry sources that Dell will offer an AMD based desktop in September of this year.
Jun 14, 2006View in Crawl 4
Intel's roadmap pretty much has dual-core all over their new product lines, and AMD already has their X2 stuff out. Eventually, dual core will be the norm, but even before it's the norm, games will take advantage of it.I mean, do you consider SLI 7800's "the norm"? Because games take advantage of those.
"and MS went with AMD64 for WinXP 64bit..."Actually, Microsoft had Windows XP 64-bit (Itanium) available at the launch of the XP operating system. It wasn't until recently that they made an x86-64 version for AMD64 and Intel/EM64T.As far as instruction sets go, they each invent new technologies and then the other will license them or use them if they open it up. AMD came up with x86-64 sure but Intel came up with x86 in the first place (as well as SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AGP, PCI-e, etc).
By that time though intel will have quad-core processor standard. AMD has had much better products then intel for the last ~5 years, but I really can't see AMD keeping up over the next few years! By the end of 2008 their entire desktop product line is going to be quad core! Based on the benchmarks we are seeing from Conroe I doubt the K8L will be able to match what intel will have available.
"The type of person who would buy a Dell desktop probably doesn't know enough to ask for Athlon 64 over Pentium 4, so why would Dell make the switch?"i'm pretty sure that even the typical Dell buyer can tell the difference between a higher price and a lower one
Hypertransport is what AMD used in response to Intels Hyperthreading technology. No the technology's are not the same in architecture (hypertransport opens up a wider bus whereas hyperthreading opens up multiple threads on the CPU itself) but it was more of a comeback in the marketing scheme of things. Hypertransport is the term AMD came up with because it does sound good. The actual technology is LDT (something Data Transport) but Hypertransport sounds better and would offer more of a competitive strategy against Intel patented Hyperthreading.And if you really want to get down to it they both really do result in the same thing: more instructions in the same amount of time (higher throughput). The only difference is that Intel is doing it on the CPU and AMD is doing it on the bus.It was a general statement, calm down.
wizzlaJun 14, 2006
No, they were selling the retail boxed CPUs, which started the "Dell to use AMD" rumours.
millixawJun 14, 2006
Intel's roadmap pretty much has dual-core all over their new product lines, and AMD already has their X2 stuff out. Eventually, dual core will be the norm, but even before it's the norm, games will take advantage of it.I mean, do you consider SLI 7800's "the norm"? Because games take advantage of those.
millixawJun 14, 2006
"and MS went with AMD64 for WinXP 64bit..."Actually, Microsoft had Windows XP 64-bit (Itanium) available at the launch of the XP operating system. It wasn't until recently that they made an x86-64 version for AMD64 and Intel/EM64T.As far as instruction sets go, they each invent new technologies and then the other will license them or use them if they open it up. AMD came up with x86-64 sure but Intel came up with x86 in the first place (as well as SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AGP, PCI-e, etc).
danielwsmitheeJun 14, 2006
By that time though intel will have quad-core processor standard. AMD has had much better products then intel for the last ~5 years, but I really can't see AMD keeping up over the next few years! By the end of 2008 their entire desktop product line is going to be quad core! Based on the benchmarks we are seeing from Conroe I doubt the K8L will be able to match what intel will have available.
pollarditoJun 14, 2006
"The type of person who would buy a Dell desktop probably doesn't know enough to ask for Athlon 64 over Pentium 4, so why would Dell make the switch?"i'm pretty sure that even the typical Dell buyer can tell the difference between a higher price and a lower one
soccerboyJun 14, 2006
It's about f**king time...
shucklakJun 14, 2006
Hypertransport is what AMD used in response to Intels Hyperthreading technology. No the technology's are not the same in architecture (hypertransport opens up a wider bus whereas hyperthreading opens up multiple threads on the CPU itself) but it was more of a comeback in the marketing scheme of things. Hypertransport is the term AMD came up with because it does sound good. The actual technology is LDT (something Data Transport) but Hypertransport sounds better and would offer more of a competitive strategy against Intel patented Hyperthreading.And if you really want to get down to it they both really do result in the same thing: more instructions in the same amount of time (higher throughput). The only difference is that Intel is doing it on the CPU and AMD is doing it on the bus.It was a general statement, calm down.
Closed AccountJun 25, 2006
Cool i was wondering about that.Plus yeah ... i had always heard of 64bit XP before the big release... but never saw it.