AMD is Not Impressed by Intel's Dunnington
AMD is Not Impressed by Intel's Dunnington
Posted 09/19/2008 at 8:43am
| by Paul Lilly
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In case you missed it, Intel earlier this week officially released its Dunnington-based 7400 server CPUs. Dunnington has garnered attention in the press for being a six-core processor, and also for being the first Intel chip to sport a monolithic design, meaning all six cores come on a single die. Dunnington's predecessor, the 7300 series Tigerton, was a quad-core processor two dual-core chips wedged onto a single slice of silicon.
But Dunnington is no big deal, according to AMD. Jon Fruehe, worldwide market development manager for the rival chip maker, dubbed Dunnington as nothing more than a "benchmark chip" and a "placeholder" until Intel can move away from an external memory controller.
Fruehe also huffed at Intel having the first six-core CPU, saying it's just a glued together triple-dual core processor with 50 percent more cores than the quad-core and costing 50 percent more, but only offering 30 percent more performance. He also pooh-poohed the 130W TDP rating (early reports indicate first run Core i7 processors will also be rated at 130W), and downplayed Tigerton's success, saying market share gains can be attributed to AMD being late with Barcelona.
Is Fruehe's criticism of Intel's Dunnington architecture valid, or did someone just take a whiz in his Wheaties?
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yogurt80
September 19, 2008 at 12:21pm
This coming from the same company that put out a 3 core processor after a quad core?! I still don't get that one.
bcweir
September 19, 2008 at 3:06pm
As a long suffering AMD fan, I'm sick of AMD's hot air. If AMD were as effective as putting out a PRODUCT as effectively as they were at putting out yawns and trash talk, MAYBE AMD would have a reason to be smug. Hey it's cool that they put a performance Whuppin' on Nvidia, but that needs to be the START of the smackdown conversation, not the end of it. Nvidia is not the only big boy that needs their hind ends handed back to them.
Get it on or STFU already, AMD!
scuz
September 19, 2008 at 11:26am
Why sass the company that's been man-handling your CPU's for the last few months without anything to back it up? Here's hoping that AMD can get back into the CPU fight with their 2009 offerings. And with Fruehe heckling Intel like this, that's a sure sign that they they're gonna pack a punch next year.
Or at least Fruehe thinks they will.
Talcum X
September 19, 2008 at 10:32am
but it was All Bran...
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