Posted on 07/17/2006 3:36:49 PM PDT by Echo Talon
This is a public service announcement,
there will be no price cuts on October 23rd, 2006
DailyTech previously reported AMD was planning a major CPU price cut a couple days after Intel ships Core 2 Duo Conroe processors. Those expecting AMD to announce another price cut in time for the holiday season will be disappointed. DailyTech has received an updated price list for October 23rd, 2006 that shows AMD has no plans to reduce prices on its Athlon 64 and Sempron desktop product lineups anytime soon. Pricing on Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 X2 EE and Sempron will stay the same well into 2007 which may disappoint users expecting a sub-$100 dual-core AMD offering in time for the holidays to compete with Intel's $95 Pentium D 805.
The upcoming July 24th, 2006 price cut is the only planned price cut for quite a while. There’s no word on other upcoming price cuts yet, though it wouldn’t be surprising to see AMD cut prices when Brisbane production ramps up. DailyTech has previously reported on AMD’s upcoming Socket AM2 motherboard forward compatibility with Socket AM3 CPUs, upcoming AMD K8L architecture, AMD’s June 2006 product roadmap and upcoming 65nm improvements too. AMD has also been aggressively discontinuing Socket 939 and 754 products including dual-core Athlon 64 X2 4200+ and 4600+ models.
It's possible that Windows 64 wasn't correctly identifying the Intel chip as 64 bit. Programs that identify hardware are not always very bright, and you can't always identify things made after you write your code.
A couple decades ago, in the DOS era, I tried to identify the status of printers by their response to instructions. I was basically looking for simple things like power off, out of paper, offline. It was a mess. Even though the return codes were well defined, the different brands and models didn't follow the standards.
But the Intel EM64T did work in other 64bit benchmarks... If you look at the Windows Media Player benchmarks EM64T does indeed benefit from 64bit VISTA... just Windows Movie Maker had a problem finding a benefit from it..
yea read that already. :)
IIRC, Intel's laptop processors also give the best performance per watt. I think it's the P4 M line for the energy conscious.
Although EM64T is pretty much the same as the AMD 64 bit stuff, the other part of your comment is false. Core Duo is not in any way a copy of AMD architecture. Intel got sidetracked going after MHz/GHz for a while. Core Duo is based on (with enhancements) the older Intel Pentium III architecture, not AMD's architecture.
True. Intel, for example, does not put the memory controller on the CU die. I did not mean to imply that Intel stole or reverse engineered AMD's internal workings; I just meant they adopted AMD's philosophy.
There are advantages and disadvantages to Intel's memory approach. Intel can take advantage of improvements in memory technology without redesigning the CPU, but The AMD Opteron can have an independent bank of memory for each physical CPU. There are already servers on the market with 16 Opteron CPUs. Intel will eventually have to adopt this architecture as well, in the server market.
Maybe I'll finally upgrade my Duron 900.... I think the hampster has earned a retirement.
No. I am talking about the fabs that “real men own”, the ones that make the processors. AMD has only two fabs both in Dresden, Germany. Intel has a number of fabs in the US, although they presently have one in Ireland. However AMD has just begun outsourcing chip production with Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing in Singapore.
In other words, if you buy an Intel chip in the US it will be manufactured in the US. If you buy AMD you will buy a chip made in a foreign country.
You have links to the game benchmarks?
They are all over the web. Where have you been?
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