The Underdog AMD Announces

[Nflight]

Here is some insight into what is on the horizon: http://www.dailytech.com/The+Underdog+AMD+Announces+Details+on+Trio+of+Upco ming+CPU+Designs/article19433.htm

And the Picture blown up: http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/16279_large_Bobcat_Architecture.jpg

Here comes the 16 core CPU... :blob3:

[Nflight]

A new Thread or just add to this one, Well here is more info on the BobCat: http://www.dailytech.com/8262010+Daily+Hardware+Reviews/article19463.htm

[Brucifer]

Well maybe we will see the low power chips and maybe we won't. Unfortunately AMD has done a ton of announcing in the past, which they are really good at, but when it has come time for the announcements to materialize that part of the equation hasn't come along quite so well it seems. We are going through another shift in computing though. As they bring out more and more cores, they are really primarily for the server world. The specialized chips are taking over more and more. The gpu performance just totally outclasses the standard cpu for any applications that can be adapted to parallel processing. And most can be. This is getting more and more important as the price of electricity continues to increase. My days of $400+ electrical bills at home are over with as I only concentrate on gpu adapted projects. However I would branch back out to standard cpu projects if there were decently priced low power cpu's. But again on that subject, I don't play the game anymore of buying this cpu to have it superceeded by the new raz-ma-taz incremental offering. The money just isn't there to play that game anymore. And I'm not alone in this as the cpu/computer sales just aren't there nowdays like they used to be. And that impacts what the chip makers are producing as this all costs money. The US market just isn't supporting the market like it has in the past. The consumers aren't spending the money because they don't have it to spend like they did in the past. So that is going to have further impact on all these announcements of new cpu's. I expect to see only a small percentage of them to ever make it to market.