Although the x86 instruction this year thirtieth anniversary fourth, the technology and the market around it is still under development. We saw the competition intensify this year with technical innovations and strategic decisions. So Intel finally came up with an integrated memory controller, AMD saw themselves forced to sell its factories and introduced VIA unexpectedly interesting design. And because x86 (still) has not conquered the world were also messages to report. Across different architectures In this article Tweakers.net looks back on the developments of the past twelve months.
AMD Triple Core BarcelonaAMD has a particularly eventful year behind. After the failed launch of Barcelona has worked hard in the first quarter to get where the infamous as soon as the B3 revision of the chip on the end of 2007 TLB bug was fixed. Eventually the repaired Phenom appears on March 26 the same day the first two models, three cores came out. The Opteron followed moments later on April 9 .
Yet with the B3 version is not amiss. The best desktop models require more than some cheaper motherboards power handle . With additional cooling that problem is resolved soon enough. When in July verstokende 140W Phenom 9950 is announced, it is yet again to swallow.
On the server front the Barcelona after his hibernation suddenly take on Intel's 45nm generation, which the benchmarks are a lot less good. Moreover, the K10 core is not yet apparent economical enough for use in notebook computers, allowing AMD in June even the new Puma platform introduces based on the K8. All this is not good for the market: AMD fell from 23.1% in the fourth quarter of 2007 to 17.9% in the third quarter of 2008. It reports the same period 3.3 billion loss, including a large depreciation of ATI. Up to two times they are written off. add
AMD CEO Hector RuizAlmost everyone agrees that something needs to change with AMD to be healthy again. Structural Practically the entire management get on, move around or is replaced, which may include the departure of chief engineer Phil Hester , processor director Mario Rivas and eventually CEO Hector Ruiz are noteworthy. For the latter, a new role at The Foundry Corp., the result of his own brainchild asset smart ".
For some time that AMD calls "asset light" or "asset smart" the end of the financial problems must mean. Since then it has been speculated that the company wanted to sell, which is on 7 October factories attached . Mubadala Development Company, an investment arm of the wealthy Arab emirate of Abu Dhabi, will establish a new company to bake for others. Chips In exchange for its factories AMD gets 45% of the property, certain investment guarantees and a portion of the debt acquired. Later - when the weather is more difficult for the shares - are renegotiated and AMD holds an interest of 35% over. It remains to keep half of the voting rights to legal problems to avoid. Intel
AMD Fab 4X concept
The factory that AMD The Foundry Corp. in New York wants to build.
Under the leadership of the new management revises AMD roadmaps for perhaps a little more modest, but certainly safer products. Thus, the Fusion project delayed and chooses the high end for a multi-chip solution, which we previously always shouted that it was not 'real'. The introduction of Shanghai, the first 45nm version of the Opteron, then runs smoothly. The chip is a lot more economical than its predecessor and put beautiful performances in all major server benchmarks, both compared to the previous generation as the competition. Although the desktop version is only a few weeks in stores, but we know him above 6GHz overclockable.
AMD Triple Core BarcelonaAMD has a particularly eventful year behind. After the failed launch of Barcelona has worked hard in the first quarter to get where the infamous as soon as the B3 revision of the chip on the end of 2007 TLB bug was fixed. Eventually the repaired Phenom appears on March 26 the same day the first two models, three cores came out. The Opteron followed moments later on April 9 .
Yet with the B3 version is not amiss. The best desktop models require more than some cheaper motherboards power handle . With additional cooling that problem is resolved soon enough. When in July verstokende 140W Phenom 9950 is announced, it is yet again to swallow.
On the server front the Barcelona after his hibernation suddenly take on Intel's 45nm generation, which the benchmarks are a lot less good. Moreover, the K10 core is not yet apparent economical enough for use in notebook computers, allowing AMD in June even the new Puma platform introduces based on the K8. All this is not good for the market: AMD fell from 23.1% in the fourth quarter of 2007 to 17.9% in the third quarter of 2008. It reports the same period 3.3 billion loss, including a large depreciation of ATI. Up to two times they are written off. add
AMD CEO Hector RuizAlmost everyone agrees that something needs to change with AMD to be healthy again. Structural Practically the entire management get on, move around or is replaced, which may include the departure of chief engineer Phil Hester , processor director Mario Rivas and eventually CEO Hector Ruiz are noteworthy. For the latter, a new role at The Foundry Corp., the result of his own brainchild asset smart ".
For some time that AMD calls "asset light" or "asset smart" the end of the financial problems must mean. Since then it has been speculated that the company wanted to sell, which is on 7 October factories attached . Mubadala Development Company, an investment arm of the wealthy Arab emirate of Abu Dhabi, will establish a new company to bake for others. Chips In exchange for its factories AMD gets 45% of the property, certain investment guarantees and a portion of the debt acquired. Later - when the weather is more difficult for the shares - are renegotiated and AMD holds an interest of 35% over. It remains to keep half of the voting rights to legal problems to avoid. Intel
AMD Fab 4X concept
The factory that AMD The Foundry Corp. in New York wants to build.
Under the leadership of the new management revises AMD roadmaps for perhaps a little more modest, but certainly safer products. Thus, the Fusion project delayed and chooses the high end for a multi-chip solution, which we previously always shouted that it was not 'real'. The introduction of Shanghai, the first 45nm version of the Opteron, then runs smoothly. The chip is a lot more economical than its predecessor and put beautiful performances in all major server benchmarks, both compared to the previous generation as the competition. Although the desktop version is only a few weeks in stores, but we know him above 6GHz overclockable.
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