Re: Help needed or advice please

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kupjones
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<a contenteditable="false" data-ipshover="" data-ipshover-target="https://www.blackwot.com/index.php?/profile/14048-sfcstorm/&do=hovercard&quot; data-mentionid="14048" href="/index.php?/profile/14048-sfcstorm/” rel=””>@SFCStorm, you poor AMD schmuck!!!!  (Sorry, you know I am just kidding about the Schmuck thing — just sounded funny).

We had a briefing from Intel and they have already surpassed AMD again.  All of the gains regarding L2/L3/L4 cache is out the door — they are releasing CPU’s that now have all of that memory PLUS DRAM sitting on the CPU, not using a memory controller and therefore not incurring any of the overhead.  In addition, they are making disk (SSD) IO directly addressable by the CPU, again bypassing a block controller (ie., a disk controller).

I fear, my friend, that AMD jsut no longer has what it takes.  I have numerous friends here in Austin that work(ed) at AMD and they keep laying off the chip designers.  CPU’s are no longer making them money — only the GPU’s.  They were even dumb enough (like Freescale) to spin off the Memory group — and guess who is making tons of cash making solid state memory???   Not AMD.

I will pray for your CPU-soul to return to the Intel-light.   Go toward the light, go toward the light, go toward ……………..

 

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