Barcelona Quad Core (Then Bring It)

[Rinne]

With Barcelona, we are only talking 65nm so we are alread pitting 65nm cores against 45nm cores. All Barcelona has to do is hold ground to Penryn but AMD has to be at the ready in no more than 6 months to move to 45nm with the new cache transistor tech, At this point we don't know what enhancements can be done but some of the transistor tech could be brought into the microcode execution block boosting it's performance.

By the new cache transistor tech, do you mean Z-Ram?

Because I know AMD has experimented with it, but have never heard that it will be available in future products.. If Z-Ram would actually be integrated in K10 or K11, I think it would give a big advantage over Intel, even if they brought out the 45nm tech...

 

[AlabamaCajun]

By the new cache transistor tech, do you mean Z-Ram?

Because I know AMD has experimented with it, but have never heard that it will be available in future products.. If Z-Ram would actually be integrated in K10 or K11, I think it would give a big advantage over Intel, even if they brought out the 45nm tech...

Sorry, my bad, should have posted a link to that;
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i06/8506notw4.html
http://www.physorg.com/news89109741.html

Both companies are racing to get the tech on Silicon, Intels in the lead.

 

[Rinne]

Ah, ok, I see...

I knew that Intel was working (and succeeding) on that tech, but didn't even know that AMD and IBM worked on it..