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So if you are curious, here is the difference between Intel and AMD’s quad-core offerings, I am not going into price or performance, but how they are made. AMD’s quad-core processor is a single chip with 4 cores on it. Intel uses a MCM or multi-chip module that more or less allows them to connect two dual-core chips to make four cores.
Intel’s method results in a higher yield, as if a core in a chip is bad they don’t lose all 4 cores of the chip because it goes in the garbage bin, they only lose two, and then replace that chip. That allows for a higher yield of chips that ship. AMD’s method means that if one core is bad, they lose the whole processor.
Maybe not anymore, apparently they are considering releasing triple-core processors which would basically be those quad-core chips that have something wrong with one core, which would allow for a higher yield. Another thing to point out, is that although you may have never heard of a triple-core CPU, there is such a beast, and it powers the Xbox 360, so its not heard of in the PC component market, but it does exist, and it does work. So it could happen, the biggest factor in whether they sell or not would be price, which I would assume would have to be really close to the dual core CPUs in order for them to sell.
AMD triple-core rumors surface [via arstechnica]
7 Responses to “Rumor: New triple-core AMD processors might be coming”
Eric September 17, 2007
So basically they are selling me something that’s broken?
I’m sticking with Intel.
NeutralDenis Bergeron September 17, 2007
No GPS ? So n95 is better !
NeutralOnly 2MP ! So n95 is better !
Denis Bergeron September 17, 2007
[quote comment="28738"]No GPS ? So n95 is better !
NeutralOnly 2MP ! So n95 is better ![/quote]
This comment is supossed to be on thee new i-mate ultimate 6150-smartphone
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Ewdison Then September 17, 2007
lol Denis needs more coffee :p
I think right now AMD is in urgency to play catch up
NeutralDenis Bergeron September 17, 2007
[quote comment="28740"]lol Denis needs more coffee :p
I think right now AMD is in urgency to play catch up[/quote]
No, Slashgear remove the news about the «new i-mate ultimate 6150-smartphone» between the time I star writing my comment and the time I send it. And a bug in the Slashgear engine seem to put the comment in this story.
Oh well !
NeutralEwdison Then September 17, 2007
weird i dont know why the imate entry is missing, no one was deleting it.
Story is back up now http://www.slashgear.com/new-i.....177430.php
Neutraldastagir October 1, 2007
amd wont survive introducing a triple core chip .
Neutral