Bad news for Intel Folk
Posted: February 26th, 2004, 8:59 pm
Intel's Itanium series is going down the tubes.
With AMD's goal set to make the Opteron as powerful, or even more powerful, than the Itanium, Intel decided to do the same with the Xeons.
This will force the Xeons to replace the Itaniums.
AMD plans to attack the Itanium series the same way Intel plans to continue to increase power.
That's right, no more GHz wars.
Intel now plans to give their CPUs better parallelism since the GHz have caused their CPU's power to soon equal that of uncontrollable temperatures.
This means adding multi-core abilities.
Hyper threading is a baby step, making this a virtual reality.
AMD plans to not only use hyper threading but also dual cores for their first step in the last K8 s.
Itanium plans to do the same, so Xeon will either be left behind or follow also.
Of course when Itanium reaches 4 and 16 cores, AMD will not rest.
AMD plans to te the Itaniums so that the battle is one on one in a server/workstation world.
This will be good in such a way that 32-Bit power will not be lacking in powerful CPUs like the Itanium.
People can buy 64-Bit CPUs without worrying how powerful the 32-Bit programs will run.
But cores is not the only way AMD plans to advance the market.
They plan to also use the aproach Intel has been trying to sneek in with.
That is right, a huge Cache 3.
AMD has big plans for their K9s involving huge Caches.
Since Intel plans to have 32MB of Cache 3 on their Itaniums by 2007, you can expect AMD to do the same.
Of course Xeon can either be left in the dust or do the same thing.
If they do the same thing, there goes another reason to abandon the Itanium project.
Of course, like Intel, AMD will increase their GHz to maximum on each core of their CPU as the time goes on.
As you see, the future will be full of exciting CPU wars.
In this war, we might even see the so called unbeatable Itanium CPU fall to nonexistance.
Yet the things I have said today have not yet happen, so the future is still full of possibilities.
That does not mean, however, that we can't stop dreaming.
More Here.
With AMD's goal set to make the Opteron as powerful, or even more powerful, than the Itanium, Intel decided to do the same with the Xeons.
This will force the Xeons to replace the Itaniums.
AMD plans to attack the Itanium series the same way Intel plans to continue to increase power.
That's right, no more GHz wars.
Intel now plans to give their CPUs better parallelism since the GHz have caused their CPU's power to soon equal that of uncontrollable temperatures.
This means adding multi-core abilities.
Hyper threading is a baby step, making this a virtual reality.
AMD plans to not only use hyper threading but also dual cores for their first step in the last K8 s.
Itanium plans to do the same, so Xeon will either be left behind or follow also.
Of course when Itanium reaches 4 and 16 cores, AMD will not rest.
AMD plans to te the Itaniums so that the battle is one on one in a server/workstation world.
This will be good in such a way that 32-Bit power will not be lacking in powerful CPUs like the Itanium.
People can buy 64-Bit CPUs without worrying how powerful the 32-Bit programs will run.
But cores is not the only way AMD plans to advance the market.
They plan to also use the aproach Intel has been trying to sneek in with.
That is right, a huge Cache 3.
AMD has big plans for their K9s involving huge Caches.
Since Intel plans to have 32MB of Cache 3 on their Itaniums by 2007, you can expect AMD to do the same.
Of course Xeon can either be left in the dust or do the same thing.
If they do the same thing, there goes another reason to abandon the Itanium project.
Of course, like Intel, AMD will increase their GHz to maximum on each core of their CPU as the time goes on.
As you see, the future will be full of exciting CPU wars.
In this war, we might even see the so called unbeatable Itanium CPU fall to nonexistance.
Yet the things I have said today have not yet happen, so the future is still full of possibilities.
That does not mean, however, that we can't stop dreaming.
More Here.