AMD Outlines Plans for Future Processors @ The Tech Report

Regeneration · Posted by Regeneration on December 15th, 2006, 04:45 AM

During its four-hour Financial Analyst Day presentation today, AMD revealed new elements of its processor roadmap spanning the next couple of years, as well as its plans to scale beyond the current multi-core model. Intel talked about processors with "tens to hundreds of cores" at IDF earlier this year, but AMD believes the core race is just a repeat of the megahertz race and that adding more cores isn't the best way to go about scaling processor performance in the future. Instead, AMD is cooking up what it calls "Accelerated Processing Units."

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**Posted by Unixlord on December 15th, 2006, 10:07 AM**

History repeating itself? Here's what happened in the past:
Intel the overconfident monopoly cranking the clock speeds.
AMD thinking of doing things different.
AMD won.
They have realized that encoding media is very important for some users and it's an area where Intel excels. It's the right direction IMO but can they do it right?