AMD Triple-Core CPU
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 by PPV
In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore made a prediction, now popularly known as Moore's Law. It states that the number of transistors on a chip doubles about every two years.
Things are about to change. The battle now is on core. Single, dual, quad core cpu's populate the market. But a very odd thing happened inside AMD. Instead of doubling the cores, AMD announced they were coming out with a triple-core processor in the Phenom family of processors in Q1 2008. Still according to reports, AMD plots 8 to 16-core super-CPU for 2009 codename Bulldozer.
AMD's Triple-Core (codename Toliman) is Phenom 7-series and plans to launch the new processor family by Q1 next year.
AMD has come out with the industries first native quad-core processor with Barcelona, unlike Intel's quad-core cpu which is actually two dualie "glued" together.
The idea of triple-core goes like this. Engineers at AMD tests the quad-core cpu core-by-core. If for example, three cores functions at 2.6GHz and the other one at 2.0Ghz, the engineers have to decide. Should they make it a 2.0GHz Quad-core or should they make it a 2.6 Triple-core?
Very clever indeed. I don't think Intel can spoil this thing by simply "glue-ing" a single and dual-core cpu.
Another first from AMD. :)
Things are about to change. The battle now is on core. Single, dual, quad core cpu's populate the market. But a very odd thing happened inside AMD. Instead of doubling the cores, AMD announced they were coming out with a triple-core processor in the Phenom family of processors in Q1 2008. Still according to reports, AMD plots 8 to 16-core super-CPU for 2009 codename Bulldozer.
AMD's Triple-Core (codename Toliman) is Phenom 7-series and plans to launch the new processor family by Q1 next year.
AMD has come out with the industries first native quad-core processor with Barcelona, unlike Intel's quad-core cpu which is actually two dualie "glued" together.
The idea of triple-core goes like this. Engineers at AMD tests the quad-core cpu core-by-core. If for example, three cores functions at 2.6GHz and the other one at 2.0Ghz, the engineers have to decide. Should they make it a 2.0GHz Quad-core or should they make it a 2.6 Triple-core?
Very clever indeed. I don't think Intel can spoil this thing by simply "glue-ing" a single and dual-core cpu.
Another first from AMD. :)
