AMD announces new generation of CPUs

[Libensborn]

And for those who delight on powerful processing capacities, I learned that AMD presented not one, but two new micro-architectures for CPU's to be used on desktops and for a wide range of laptops. Regarding the the manufacturing process, the new thing is the entrance of AMD into the 32 nanometers production with metal ports transistors named "high-k", already being used by Intel since 2007.

The architecture witht he code name "Bulldozer" will organize diferent series of desktop and laptop CPUs. The biggest innovation of this type of chips is the instalation of two full processing units for each core. By other words, each core of the new processors will include two sub-processors, dedicated to the majority of the common tasks. AMD guarantees that more than 80% of the processed tasks, usually processed by the main processor, will be processed by this new units. This technology is seen as a sophisticated reply to the Hyper-Threading technology (which enables the sytem to run two tasks simultaneously by each processing core) from Intel.

The Bulldozer processors will begin to show up on those tradicional CPUs, but later they will be sold under the concept of APU (Accelerated Processing Unit), this chips will integrate the cpacities of both the CPU and GPU (graphical processor for who dones't kow what it is).

The processors now revealed by AMD are the first to be developed according to the new company organization, which became a brand totally dedicated to processor design, just like Nvidia and ARM.

[TetraCleric]

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[Libensborn]

Bah..I was gonna post something about Halo Reach, than I forgot about it and wrote about AMD on this section lol

Voyle has got to move it.

[Schwarzwald]

AMD has been announcing alot of crap lately. I think recently I read that they have a 'road map' to like a 16 core processor thats in the works.

Now only if the lazy programmers in the world would start actually writing software that takes advantage of having so many cores...

[Hydoso]

Now only if the lazy programmers in the world would start actually writing software that takes advantage of having so many cores...

what are most software and games now, two core still?

[Schwarzwald]

Now only if the lazy programmers in the world would start actually writing software that takes advantage of having so many cores...

what are most software and games now, two core still?

Pretty much. You also don't see as much 64 bit support as you think you should be seeing in this day and age. Lets not forget how Hyper Threading is another severely under used feature in CPUs

You know PhysX? Well I've been reading several articles saying that technology like that would run perfectly fine on any modern CPU if nVidya bothered to write the program in SSE2+ and took advantage of multiple cores. BUUUUUT Nvidia just likes to keep on pushing their proprietary technology as a selling point. Seriously. The programming language that runs Physx is only 32bit and is built pretty much to run only on Nvidia cards. They won't even bother writing modernized CPU PhysX drivers and selling them, that would hurt their bottom line on graphics card sales.

[Voyle]

I tried rendering in a 32 bit copy of after effects again the other day after getting used to the 64bit version with an i7.