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- sovietninja, on 05/27/2009, -1/+91Welcome back, Old Digg. It's been a while since some good computer news has hit the front page on the day it was written ;)
- rpark, on 05/27/2009, -8/+61AMD is f'd.
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 05/27/2009, -0/+41It will actually run Crysis without you telling it to, and in the background. You won't notice the minor performance hit.
- nanowerx, on 05/27/2009, -7/+45Dammit AMD, catch up. I hate the idea of having to support Intel
- djetaine, on 05/26/2009, -16/+46Yes, but will it run Crysis?
- Pulsedriv3r, on 05/26/2009, -0/+24That thing is a beast.
- inactive, on 05/27/2009, -0/+23Coming soon to an extreme edition near you, then eventually when they can be bothered, a CPU everyone else can afford.
- PsychoBrat, on 05/27/2009, -1/+21"It seems all AMD does now is whine about Intel."
And with good reason: the Intel engineers do some really amazing stuff, and I really do love their products, but the management further up were, and still are, involved in so much anticompetitive ***** it makes the likes of Samsung and Microsoft look pretty average. - acolytegerm, on 05/27/2009, -1/+15IBM + Intel = Insurmountable innovation and technological advancement. Win, epic win
- angryfirelord, on 05/27/2009, -2/+15Of course, AMD has been traditionally good a f-ing itself up too (see Hector Ruiz). It seems all AMD does now is whine about Intel.
- inactive, on 05/27/2009, -0/+13Did this CPU vote for Obama or McCain?
- Pyrolistical, on 05/27/2009, -0/+12Must...ray...trace....in...real...time....
- RobMackenzie, on 05/27/2009, -0/+12I do wonder if they are running anything interesting that keeps all those 128 cores (see the vid) at 100% all the time. Most likely just each one running something trivial as an experiment. It would have been more interesting to see each core trying to beat the others at something.
Long story short, my 4 cores are now sad. - arunforce, on 05/27/2009, -2/+11AMD has a right to whine about Intel, when Intel spends it's money to make sure AMD doesn't have a fair chance. I'd love to see how innovative Intel is when AMD is gone.
- AndrewRidgely, on 05/27/2009, -1/+10Keep cranking them out, Intel.
Every time I add some machines to our computing cluster, the performance per dollar is shifted significantly higher from last time.
When the new baddass chips come out, last year's baddass becomes this year's bargain.
edit: that video is hard to watch; those guys are not comfortable in front of a camera - inactive, on 05/27/2009, -1/+9only with a product they invented, anyone else is welcome to make something better.
- Fmunkey, on 05/27/2009, -3/+11Oh Lawd.
Pixar needs this NOW - Scottie22, on 05/27/2009, -4/+11Damn. Should have called this core Octopussy, cause I know what a lot of people would be doing with it.
- EntangledPhysx, on 05/27/2009, -1/+8Not Crysis 2 =)
- Macintoshreader, on 05/27/2009, -1/+7The Intel Xeon Nehalem came out in November, 2008. Apple got it in the Mac Pro by January, 2009. More like 2 months.
Fail at trolling. - GawtMilk, on 05/27/2009, -0/+6Buzz Lightyear?
- vladin, on 05/27/2009, -0/+6ESX <3
- inactive, on 05/27/2009, -0/+6Only if you stick your woody into the CPU fan. Good luck with that.
- getoffmybridge, on 05/27/2009, -1/+6Yeah, watching James Bond films on their computer.
- lololwut, on 05/27/2009, -1/+6Faster clock =/= Better processor
The reason why we don't have 5+ Ghz single core processors is because it would run way too hot. - superterrorizer, on 05/27/2009, -0/+5"Must warn senator McCain!"
- inactive, on 05/27/2009, -0/+5the majority of applications those would be used for do.
- AReallyGoodName, on 05/27/2009, -0/+5Intel had better hope AMD stay alive.
AMD and Intel currently license the rights to various technologies to each other in a seemingly fair way as they both need each others technologies to make modern x86 CPUs.
If AMD decides to stop making x86 CPUs, instead of there being a technology swap with Intel, AMD will be in a position to be a patent troll. It will need nothing from Intel but Intel will need the x86-64 patents (amongst others) from AMD. - colonelxc, on 05/27/2009, -0/+4Windows will page files to disk even when there is extra ram. If some app suddenly demands a bunch of memory, windows can drop the real memory if it hasn't changed yet.
It's good for responsiveness (always having the ability to free up memory instantly), but hard on disks (disk usage when nothing is going on). - Ricochetbiscuit, on 05/27/2009, -0/+4!WANT!
- jeremymccurdy, on 05/27/2009, -1/+5Yeah, cause it's not like they have competitors or anything. Oh wait...
They aren't a monopoly, their competition just can't really keep up. - inactive, on 05/27/2009, -0/+4Or will it run Cruisin' USA on MAME?
- jasdf, on 05/27/2009, -0/+4Wow, 2.3 Billion transistors per chip!
- GOVStooge, on 05/27/2009, -0/+4SkyNet here we come
- tnoy, on 05/27/2009, -0/+4Don't be surprised if a single Nehalem-EX CPU is $2000.
- NUMBER4940, on 05/27/2009, -0/+3some of us never tire of that line apparently.
- quomen, on 05/27/2009, -0/+3Will it run Alan Wake (Forever?)?
- Gizza, on 05/27/2009, -0/+3There are plenty of uses in science, medicine and research that would benefit from as many cores as they can get, which is exactly what these type of chips are aimed at.
- KibibyteBrain, on 05/27/2009, -0/+3Thats not necessarily true. Its clear it will be years before AMD will even be able to compete in the high end server or workstation market again. Their plan to have the Neo platform sneak in a strong position into the low end netbook/nettop market seems to have failed miserably too. But as long as they can price their midrange chips low as heck, they just might be able to find a niche to make it all work. Keep in mind, surviving in the industry is not always a matter of dominating the high end category.
- fury420, on 05/27/2009, -0/+3uhm, the specific model Xeon chips in the latest Mac Pros had not been officially announced/released by Intel yet when the Mac Pro dropped using them
- agent42, on 05/27/2009, -1/+4I will use this to build an 8-core hackintosh.
- qwerty27807, on 05/27/2009, -0/+2Meh... Put it in a Mac Mini, and I'll buy one.
- DeadBabyFloat, on 05/27/2009, -0/+2uhh no
- RogerMcDodger, on 05/27/2009, -0/+2Hence why Intel aren't marketing it as a consumers product at all.
- Aadain, on 05/27/2009, -0/+2Wait for Larabee then ;)
- keyo, on 05/27/2009, -0/+2If AMD don't earn any profits how will they fund R&D? They won't, they'll end up even more behind or in debt. Intel just needs to drop their prices for a short period and AMD will be out of money. It looks like intel has enough in the bank to give away cpus for a while.
- jermm, on 05/27/2009, -0/+2As many times as video cards you have.
- inactive, on 05/27/2009, -0/+2***** that, it should render out Disney's Up in real-time the whole way through!
- Spire3660, on 05/27/2009, -3/+5Are these 45nm and how much power are they going to suck.
- aurorion, on 05/27/2009, -0/+2Yes.
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