AMD Bulldozer News and Discussion
Had it not been for amd64, we wouldn't have been able to enjoy 32-bit applications without any performance penalty.
utkarsh009
In the zone
skeletor
Chosen of the Omnissiah
well, Intel developed x86 instruction set which was pre-dominantly used in 16-bit and 32-bit processors by both Intel and AMD.
Then Intel developed a 64-bit processor named "Itanium" which used IA-64 architecture. This was incompatible with old x86 instruction sets which would mean 32-bit applications would have been "emulated" with performance penalty if we wanted to run them. AMD didn't like this.
So, what AMD did, they extended x86 to x86-64 aka amd64 which is a 64-bit architecture backwards compatible with x86 (32-bit) and released Athlon 64. Now we all know Athlon 64 was a huge success and made Pentium 4 look like a joke. And the good thing was, you could run 32-bit OS/softwares on it without any performance penalty and you could also run 64-bit OS/softwares too.
Intel had to give in and instead of using Itanium's IA-64, they implemented x86-64/amd64 with minor changes in Core 2 and called it EM64T/Intel 64.
So, basically this is the reason why you can use Windows 7 32-bit on your Core i3, i5 and i7 processors despite they're 64-bit processors. You can't do this with Itanium processors.
utkarsh009
In the zone
^^nice piece of info dude!
^^ and those kind of people still believe that AMD CPU has heating issues - what an epic misconception 
@ pauldmps - nice post - I really liked those box arts - they are even more good looking than windows 7 box arts and those reminds us of legendary FX series
@ pauldmps - nice post - I really liked those box arts - they are even more good looking than windows 7 box arts and those reminds us of legendary FX series
kamal_saran
android lover
yeah bro graphics on boxes are killer. Boxes are like this then inside them will be a legend. I think now amd will show intel earth after launching of bulldozer.
lordirecto
In the zone
Why cant AMD or Intel develop a universal socket? That will save us all from repeatedly upgrading our mobos
coderunknown
Retired Forum Mod
^^ really wish there exist an universal socket.
@all, Amd's 8 core price is shown to be 700$+ & it is up against a 250-300$ Core i7 2600. typo?
@all, Amd's 8 core price is shown to be 700$+ & it is up against a 250-300$ Core i7 2600. typo?
coderunknown
Retired Forum Mod
i think universal socket is possible by 2013-14, if AMD & Intel integrate SB onto processor die. this looks possible in <20nm architecture.
masterkd
Padawan
Why cant AMD or Intel develop a universal socket? That will save us all from repeatedly upgrading our mobos
actually un logoke dimag me yeh
batti nahi jali 
'idea' ke SIM bhej do, jal jayegi!!
J
Joker
Guest
it wont be possible cuz the future is fusion.
utkarsh009
In the zone
^^yah "its amazing technology"
kamal_saran
android lover
may be amd's fusion will fuse amd and intel
Piyush
Lanaya
may be amd's fusion will fuse amd and intel
yeah why not
i was just thinking we should ask China to give our Tibet back
Gaurav Bhattacharjee
Tensor
haha...this thread owns!!!
kamal_saran
android lover
we can't get back tibet from china. But we can fuse china and india together
coderunknown
Retired Forum Mod
They've actually written "System price" in that pic.
oh damn. my bad. should have paid more attention to the pics. thanks for pointing out
but still 1 doubt remains: the 8core processor will be: 4X2 modules or 8X2 modules?
actually un logoke dimag me yeh
'idea' ke SIM bhej do, jal jayegi!!
Jaskanwar Singh
Aspiring Novelist
sammy 4 modules.