Article: AMD's Mobile Strategy
By: Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com), December 17, 2011 11:55 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
EduardoS (no@spam.com) on 12/17/11 wrote:
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>Ian Ollmann (iano@apple.com) on 12/16/11 wrote:
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>>Regrettably, AMD could have been a contendah if their CPU core design had been
>>a performer. (When will these companies learn that long pipe, high frequency hot
>>rod designs are more hot than rod? AMD made a killing off the Pentium 4!)
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>But Power 7 is that high frequency hot rod and actually, it is damn good.
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>IMHO writing off high frequency because one or two failed designs are a big mistake,
>specially now that we have two IBM designs that weren't mistakes (Power 6 and Power 7).
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Power6 wasn't mistake?
I'd guess few people will agree, even within IBM.
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>Ian Ollmann (iano@apple.com) on 12/16/11 wrote:
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>>Regrettably, AMD could have been a contendah if their CPU core design had been
>>a performer. (When will these companies learn that long pipe, high frequency hot
>>rod designs are more hot than rod? AMD made a killing off the Pentium 4!)
>
>But Power 7 is that high frequency hot rod and actually, it is damn good.
>
>IMHO writing off high frequency because one or two failed designs are a big mistake,
>specially now that we have two IBM designs that weren't mistakes (Power 6 and Power 7).
>
Power6 wasn't mistake?
I'd guess few people will agree, even within IBM.
