AMD's Quad Core Plans

November 16, 2005 5:52 AM

EETimes.com reports on the most recent AMD analyst conference call, during which it was revealed that the chip manufacturer plans to release quad-core processors by 2007. The previous AMD road map had such a CPU being released in 2008. AMD also has plans to release a reference platform for notebooks, to speed up the time it takes to bring such products to market.

Maarten Goldstein

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baron calamity

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November 16, 2005 6:12 AM

Are we, the little people going to get that much benefit from quad cores?
- obsid1an
  
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  November 16, 2005 7:04 AM
  
  Doubtful although with dual cores now hopefully by 2007 more applications with be multi-threaded so they might scale to quad core fairly easily. A lot easier than single to dual threaded. The real benefit though will undoubtedly be the server and cluster market.
  - rosewood
    
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    November 16, 2005 7:17 AM
    
    Truth. These will be huge in the server market, especially with the growth of virtualization.
    - baron calamity
      
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      November 16, 2005 7:27 AM
      
      Yes for a server, I want one. Make it four! However desktops just aren't benefiting from them.
      - intothefray
        
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        November 16, 2005 11:30 AM
        
        Well dual core is wonderful for multitasking. If we start seeing some general software that takes advantage of dual cores, then quad core will easily open up some hardcore multitasking for that software.
        
        I also think after game developers get a taste of xbox350 and ps3 programming we'll start seeing some PC benefits. If available, my aim for my next ocmputer would be in the right timeframe for a quadcore processor.
- NathanEbht
  
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  November 16, 2005 12:40 PM
  
  If your doing rendering or video editing you'd see benefit. How many little people are doing these type of things, I'd not know.
- billy_zelsnack
  
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  November 16, 2005 1:32 PM
  
  The little people have not got much use out of new CPU tech since 500Mhz. What people back then needed was memory, not more CPU. Today the little people have enough memory and 4x the CPU they need.
  
  The question is.. When will the little people finally catch on that what they already have is good enough. Luckily for the Intels of the world Microsoft is stepping in and adding a ton of weight to their new OS. That should keep them happy (as well as the GPU kids) for quite some time.