Dec

16

Hector Ruiz on AMD & Dell

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2006 is both a strategic year for AMD and Dell. This is the year Dell shipped AMD-based PC and laptops. I found an interesting video clip in YouTube website where the CEO and President of AMD, Hector Ruiz, talks about the partnership between AMD and Dell.



The greatest beneficiary of AMD-Dell partnership is certainly the consumers. I am impressed by how much value for money for a high-performance as shown below:

  1. AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+ processor
  2. Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
  3. 1 GB1 Dual Channel2 DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz
  4. 19 inch E197FP Analog Flat Panel

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Dec

1

Quad-core Processor Tug-of-War Game

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In response to Intel’s quad-core release about a month ago, AMD today announces at the annual AMD Industry Analyst Forum the industry’s first native quad-core x86 server processor, achieving four x86 processing cores on a single die of silicon (AMD Press Release). The announcement apparently signals that AMD has leapfrogged Intel’s quad-core processors which actually use two dual-core processors and connects them so they work together.

AMD QualCore Chip

During the forum, the reference server utilized 16 cores powered from four AMD quad-core Opteron™ processors (codenamed Barcelona) manufactured on 65nm silicon-on-insulator process technology. The reference server platform ran on 64-bit Windows® Server 2003. The Barcelona is also planned to feature AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V) technology with nested page tables. To access a videotaped discussion and demonstration of this technology, go to http://www.amd.com/quadcoredemo.

AMD expects to begin shipping the quad-core Opteron processors to customers in mid-2007. That is 6 months from now. One would expect Intel will introduce a very similar monolithic quad-core anytime from now. At this juncture, AMD might be slightly ahead of Intel in quad-core technology, but the tag-of-war competition between AMD and Intel in gaining the quad-core market is surely at the beginning stage.

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