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Post subject: AMDs 32nm fusion CPU discusion  Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:56 pm |
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I was left wondering why on Earth AMD would release the small and light low power CPUs first and not the desktop which was the usual way things seemed to work. It seems that global foundries had a lot of 32nm issues, I am thinking that the yield losses are high and the small mobile CPU cores reduced the cost of possible yield loss...
What do you think or know?
I can't wait for Bulldozer, AMD is claiming around 50% faster speed than a i7 core. AMD will be releasing the new AM3+ that works with AMD2+ and AMD3 CPUs
Do you believe the claim of 50% faster or do you think this is just a bunch of marketing?
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Post subject: Re: AMDs 32nm fusion CPU discusion Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:15 am |
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Personally I think it's just because the compact market is really booming right now. With netbooks all the rage and cloud computing really starting to show its usefulness processing power is starting to take a backseat to mobility and battery life.
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Post subject: Re: AMDs 32nm fusion CPU discusion Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 4:25 pm |
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Yes I can agree with that, AMD never had an answer to the AMD Atom... I can't believe AMD managed a 5watt chip even, that's awesome... It's in my tech news in case you missed that one.
5watts isn't impressive so much for a CPU alone but a CPU with built in graphics engine and built in (single channel) memory controller that is something very note worthy.
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Post subject: Re: AMDs 32nm fusion CPU discusion Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:28 pm |
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Actually the fusion chip is the cost reduction a lot of mainboard manufacturers have been waiting for the reduction in watts and the size of the chip make it an excellent product for the mainstream market where people don't care as long as it is compact and cheap. And just 1 chip no more problems with a videocard and a cpu ... On the Bulldozer thing is where I don't care  http://blogs.amd.com/work/2011/01/31/bu ... oes-to-11/yep it goes to 11 that's all you need to know  I need to see where it is going , I'd love to grab a Bulldozer 8 core but I'm thinking I'll settle for a 6 core. _________________ Opera best browser made by mankind! Linux 2.6.27.7-9-x86_64 SUSE LINUX 11.1KDE: 4.1.3
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Post subject: Re: AMDs 32nm fusion CPU discusion Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:34 pm |
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Here's the news I like hearing "features huge gains in gaming and 3D rendering, which is where most of its gains are coming from." Gaming, that's the important part here  With such a delay to the Bulldozer release what is AMD going to do for faster desktop CPUs? Nothing? Sapphire has made a small mini ITX mainboard for the power end E350 Zacate APU which is going to make a nice cheap and compact desktop system. I find it funny seeing a heat sync with a desktop system that would have been used back in the day for the Pentuim 100Mhz CPU. http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/carl/sapphire-release-first-apu-fusion-motherboard/
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Post subject: Re: AMDs 32nm fusion CPU discusion Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:47 am |
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Odd Bulldozer is not an APU, just the lower end units are... but in 2012 the Bulldozer shows built in graphics 
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Post subject: Re: AMDs 32nm fusion CPU discusion Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:22 am |
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Always AMD lost to intel Are because they Market Trend , I don't think Even if "Wintell" not around .
AMD still Weak in the Market ...
Ps: Last time, AMD really doing well in Perfessional Industry field and Linux Server etc , Micro portable CPU are not they "Game" Yet!
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Post subject: Re: AMDs 32nm fusion CPU discusion Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:39 am |
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Im still hoping that Lynx will turn up in laptops. April is launch date for bulldozer , some info will make it out before it's release especially with the new 990 fx mainboards ...
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Post subject: Re: AMDs 32nm fusion CPU discusion Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:07 pm |
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Yeah the server market is huge profit, AMD at it's peak had something like 20% of that market or more. Now it's running at a meager 5%. According to people that watch trends if AND got 5% more of the market back the profit gain could be $500 million per year more. These small devices are very low profit CPUs. A 20% market share is going to be what $50 million if they are lucky and in that market they have to compete with ARM\Nvidia, Intel, VIA and there could be more.
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Post subject: Re: AMDs 32nm fusion CPU discusion Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:43 am |
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I believe "AMD is claiming around 50% faster speed than a i7 core" is a rumor, the truth I believe is it is 50% than their current CPUs... the actual speed will likely be similar to an i7.
AMD all over is saying 50% faster than their old CPUs per clock, that would put the speed around that of a Core i7 per clock speed.
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