PtP
16-10-2004, 09:06 AM
Both AMD and Intel are racing towards the next step of processor technology. Ever since Intel's Pentium 4 it has become much harder to run cpu's at higher speeds.
Intel found their solution in stretching their pipelines with the Intel Pentium 4 Prescott. AMD on the other hand moved their CPU's to a higher instruction set architecture (ISA) by bumping 32-bit instructions to 64-bit.
So both AMD and Intel are looking towards a solution on getting performance higher. Too bad both found a similar solution to the problem and are now putting heavy manhours in multi-core CPU's.
Although both technologies from AMD and Intel are called DualCore, the architecture and construction behind it isn't identical.
Let me explain what will happen: (I'll try to keep this as simple as possible). Intel will although it's still unsure use their notebook technology (codenamed Dothan at the moment). What they do is, they place 2 cores together in one CPU (Central Processing Unit). The important thing to remember is that these two cores will use the same Level 1 and Level 2 cache. The (small) advantage when using this architecture is there is no cache coherency. This means when one core is running an instruction (calculation) the other core will always be able to access the most recent variable.
AMD will have a different approach to the problem. Although they will also use the dual core system. They will - close to literally - paste two CPU's together. This means the dual core from AMD will have 2 Level1 caches and 2 Level2 caches.
You're probably already looking on NewEGG or whatever to find you one of these puppies, but at this moment they aren't yet available. AMD will probably beat Intel to the punch when it comes to an official paper release date. Which AMD has set June 2005 while you'll have to wait until September 2005 to get your Intel piece.
Although this is speculation, there's a big chance Intel's technology will still be stuck with a 32-bit Instruction Set while AMD will have the comfort to offer 64-bit Dual Core chips.
On the naming scheme AMD will probably hit the XP4500+ or maybe they'll immediately boost it up to XP5000+ (might be a bit early since we are talking about less than 1 year). No real ideas what Intel might come up with regarding naming the dual core CPU.
Intel found their solution in stretching their pipelines with the Intel Pentium 4 Prescott. AMD on the other hand moved their CPU's to a higher instruction set architecture (ISA) by bumping 32-bit instructions to 64-bit.
So both AMD and Intel are looking towards a solution on getting performance higher. Too bad both found a similar solution to the problem and are now putting heavy manhours in multi-core CPU's.
Although both technologies from AMD and Intel are called DualCore, the architecture and construction behind it isn't identical.
Let me explain what will happen: (I'll try to keep this as simple as possible). Intel will although it's still unsure use their notebook technology (codenamed Dothan at the moment). What they do is, they place 2 cores together in one CPU (Central Processing Unit). The important thing to remember is that these two cores will use the same Level 1 and Level 2 cache. The (small) advantage when using this architecture is there is no cache coherency. This means when one core is running an instruction (calculation) the other core will always be able to access the most recent variable.
AMD will have a different approach to the problem. Although they will also use the dual core system. They will - close to literally - paste two CPU's together. This means the dual core from AMD will have 2 Level1 caches and 2 Level2 caches.
You're probably already looking on NewEGG or whatever to find you one of these puppies, but at this moment they aren't yet available. AMD will probably beat Intel to the punch when it comes to an official paper release date. Which AMD has set June 2005 while you'll have to wait until September 2005 to get your Intel piece.
Although this is speculation, there's a big chance Intel's technology will still be stuck with a 32-bit Instruction Set while AMD will have the comfort to offer 64-bit Dual Core chips.
On the naming scheme AMD will probably hit the XP4500+ or maybe they'll immediately boost it up to XP5000+ (might be a bit early since we are talking about less than 1 year). No real ideas what Intel might come up with regarding naming the dual core CPU.