By: Anonymous1 (anon.delete@this.anon.anon), May 16, 2007 7:08 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 5/16/07 wrote:
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>This article will bring together all the existing information on Barcelona, AMD's
>next generation design, into a single place, discussing the system aspects and microarchitecture
>of Barcelona as well as the circuit design challenges and performance.
>
>AMD's run of good luck started in 2003 and ended in 2006, when Intel released the
>Core 2 and grabbed the performance and efficiency crowns. This put AMD, yet again,
>into a tight corner, with only one way out. Of course, that's a situation that's
>familiar to AMD. Again, the engineers at AMD have delivered the goods - taking
>an excellent product, and conservatively extending and enhancing it to produce a
>better one. Barcelona will certainly give Intel a run for their money, and will
>probably dominate HPC and lead for MP servers.
>
>http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT051607033728
>
>I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at AMD that I've talked to
>about Barcelona. This article took a lot of effort, going back and forth with
>PR, and various engineers. Without their help, I wouldn't be able to write this excellent article.
>
>DK
Good article. Thanks!
Is this a typo?
"The northbridge and L3 cache compose 75% of the die..."
In the micrograph, it looks like a lot less.
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>This article will bring together all the existing information on Barcelona, AMD's
>next generation design, into a single place, discussing the system aspects and microarchitecture
>of Barcelona as well as the circuit design challenges and performance.
>
>AMD's run of good luck started in 2003 and ended in 2006, when Intel released the
>Core 2 and grabbed the performance and efficiency crowns. This put AMD, yet again,
>into a tight corner, with only one way out. Of course, that's a situation that's
>familiar to AMD. Again, the engineers at AMD have delivered the goods - taking
>an excellent product, and conservatively extending and enhancing it to produce a
>better one. Barcelona will certainly give Intel a run for their money, and will
>probably dominate HPC and lead for MP servers.
>
>http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT051607033728
>
>I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at AMD that I've talked to
>about Barcelona. This article took a lot of effort, going back and forth with
>PR, and various engineers. Without their help, I wouldn't be able to write this excellent article.
>
>DK
Good article. Thanks!
Is this a typo?
"The northbridge and L3 cache compose 75% of the die..."
In the micrograph, it looks like a lot less.
Topic | Posted By | Date |
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Barcelona Article Online | David Kanter | 2007/05/16 03:20 AM |
Barcelona Article Online | PiedPiper | 2007/05/16 05:12 AM |
Yes, I left out a sentence there. Fixed (NT) | David Kanter | 2007/05/16 12:07 PM |
Barcelona Article Online | anonymous | 2007/05/16 06:01 AM |
Barcelona Article Online | Anonymous | 2007/05/16 06:28 PM |
Barcelona Article Online | anonymous | 2007/05/16 07:52 PM |
Barcelona Article Online | Anonymous1 | 2007/05/16 07:08 AM |
Barcelona Article Online | Dean M | 2007/05/16 11:09 AM |
Barcelona Article Online | David Kanter | 2007/05/16 12:38 PM |
Barcelona Article Online | Dean M | 2007/05/16 02:10 PM |
Barcelona Article Online | IntelUser2000 | 2007/05/16 02:59 PM |
Barcelona Article Online | Linus Torvalds | 2007/05/16 03:24 PM |
Barcelona Article Online | David Kanter | 2007/05/16 04:57 PM |
Barcelona Article Online | Michael S | 2007/05/17 05:07 AM |
Barcelona Article Online | IntelUser2000 | 2007/05/18 08:58 PM |
8 socket servers | Doug Siebert | 2007/05/16 04:58 PM |
8 socket servers | Michael S | 2007/05/17 05:20 AM |
8 socket servers | Joe Chang | 2007/05/17 07:38 AM |
8 socket servers | Alex Jones | 2007/05/17 09:35 AM |
8 socket servers | Jose | 2007/05/23 08:23 AM |
8 socket servers | Michael S | 2007/05/23 11:37 AM |
8 socket servers | anonymous | 2007/05/26 03:49 PM |
8 socket servers | Joe Chang | 2007/05/27 01:46 PM |
8 socket servers | Doug Siebert | 2007/05/23 09:56 PM |
8 socket servers | Joe Chang | 2007/05/24 04:33 AM |
8 socket servers | Anonymous | 2007/05/24 11:18 AM |
8 socket servers | Doug Siebert | 2007/05/24 10:47 PM |
8 socket servers | Linus Torvalds | 2007/05/25 10:35 AM |
8 socket servers | Nick | 2007/05/25 02:29 AM |
Performance estimation seems odd | Hotar | 2007/05/17 01:54 AM |
Performance estimation seems odd | David Kanter | 2007/05/17 08:38 AM |
microops vs macroops on page 4 | Peter Lund | 2007/05/17 12:04 PM |
microops vs macroops on page 4 | David Kanter | 2007/05/21 04:51 PM |
microops vs macroops on page 4 | EduardoS | 2007/05/21 05:42 PM |
microops vs macroops on page 4 | dess | 2007/05/21 07:00 PM |
Barcelona Article Online | Peter Lund | 2007/05/17 12:25 PM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | dess | 2007/05/21 07:24 AM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | David Kanter | 2007/05/21 04:38 PM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | dess | 2007/05/21 06:15 PM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | David Kanter | 2007/05/22 12:11 AM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | dess | 2007/05/22 03:56 AM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | Gipsel | 2007/05/22 05:05 AM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | dess | 2007/05/22 05:52 AM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | anonymous | 2007/05/22 06:14 AM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | dess | 2007/05/22 06:44 AM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | EduardoS | 2007/05/22 02:19 PM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | dess | 2007/05/24 08:52 AM |
Stop comparing apples to oranges | EduardoS | 2007/05/22 02:30 PM |
Stop comparing apples to oranges | dess | 2007/05/22 04:09 PM |
Stop comparing apples to oranges | dess | 2007/05/22 04:30 PM |
Stop comparing apples to oranges | EduardoS | 2007/05/22 04:31 PM |
Stop comparing... apples to oranges? | dess | 2007/05/24 09:30 AM |
Stop comparing apples to oranges | anonymous | 2007/05/22 08:12 PM |
Stop comparing apples to oranges | EduardoS | 2007/05/23 02:50 PM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | anonymous | 2007/05/22 06:08 AM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | dess | 2007/05/22 06:40 AM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | anonymous | 2007/05/22 06:48 AM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | dess | 2007/05/21 08:30 PM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | anonymous | 2007/05/22 06:44 AM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | dess | 2007/05/24 09:38 AM |
macro-op vs. micro-op | Michael S | 2007/05/22 05:26 AM |