Originally posted by: Brian23
Originally posted by: Duvie
Originally posted by: Brian23
being smaller does not help AMD. It took them quite a while to come out with the Athlon after they bought the Alpha group. They haven't really changed the chip since the original K7. The've just been adding to it slowly. Designing a whole new architecture takes years.
How do you figure this genius??? They just cancelled the tejas architecture about 3Q of last year??? It was a radically different approach then this. Fact is they dont take as long as you think. The fact is many of the chips are made up of several ideas and technologies that are and have been being tested for years.....I dont think they have had as much time in this as you want to believe...
Smithfield was thrown together in world record time.
First of all, I'm not an Intel fanboi. I only said that the chip looks to be "killer" because it's something new and the specs look good. I agree that there is no proof that it's a good chip until Anand puts up the benchies.
The reason why I say it takes years to develop an architecture is because it really does.
Look at how long they milk each architecture before coming out with a new one. Incremental updates do not count as a new architecture. What they do is add a little more FSB here, lower latency there, tweak this, add a little more SSE there. Those tricks improve performance in the shorter run, and in the mean time they're working on new architectures behind closed doors. The Athlon X2 is basically the same chip as the first slot A chip, it just has a lot of add-ons like L2 cache, memory controller, Hyper Transport, tweaked pipeline etc. As far as intel goes, they used the same architecture from the original pentium pro all the way up through the P3. Of course they switched when they came out with the P4 and the PM, but they were working on those for years while people were still using Ppro, P2, and P3 processors.