The Future Lies With Phenom
Now, in mid-2008, it’s no secret that AMD’s CPUs are struggling to keep up on the performance front. But there are a few promising prospects. Early tests of the 45 nm Phenom show interesting results and the Fusion, a cross between a GPU and a CPU, seems to be making progress as well.
Let’s hope that AMD’s financial problems are only temporary, and that they’ll be around for many more years to compete with Intel in the x86 processor arena.
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Clone?
Like the intel article this feels a little rushed and could do with more detail or comments on supporting hardware at the time. Maybe even tracking the release/life cycle of cpus to the market share. Anything to make it actually feel like an article instead of a bunch of pictures with comments tacked on. For example this comment is probably equal to the amount of text for the first two processor types
this article is battey
I would like to have seen at least complete tables for each architecture. Its a bit cheap to have only 2-4x processor codes per architecture. My current AMD processors are not listed (AMD Opteron 248 : code "Troy"). Come on guys it is interesting to see the progression through the processor codes.
As for the text it is like the Abridged version of a summarised summary of the potted history of AMD processors (with the technical bits edited out).
Bob
I remember owning my first 1ghz athlon.Was fast
I remember owning a K6-III+ .. you could use them in desktop motherboards and they were very good (especially in servers). They also overclocked very well; it was not uncommon for 450MHz variants to top 600MHz..all that on a Socket 7 board. I miss the old days.