Version: 2008

Comments on: Intel strikes back with next-generation chips

AMD's chips are touted as performance leaders today, but Intel thinks it's set to reclaim that crown later this year.

Add a Comment (Log in or register) (23 Comments)
  • prev
  • 1
  • next
Catching up...
by February 17, 2006 4:34 PM PST
...yet pretending to lead

> "We believe we'll be able to open a major gap," with the new processors, Eden said.

First close the one that exists :) (GO, AMD!)

Powered by Jive Software

Category Name is not recognized
Reply to this comment
INTEL new architecture is Pentium Pro
by sharikou February 17, 2006 5:25 PM PST
http://sharikou.blogspot.com/

INTEL is 5 generations behind AMD
Reply to this comment
The middle-east amateurs knows how to brag
by sharikou February 17, 2006 5:29 PM PST
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_02/b3966010.htm

Who believe this Mooly Eden's shameless bragging of the old stuff. It was the American Bob Colwell who designed Pentium Pro, the middle-east amateurs just improved it, and call it revolutionary.
Reply to this comment
No love
by Lindy01 February 17, 2006 7:00 PM PST
on this site anymore. The people that troll these articles are anti-microsoft, anti-intel, anti-US, anti-Bush.....racist blow hearts.

Why did you have to make the ?middle east? comment???????????

As far as having a Pentium pro architecture??..yeah I am sure its basically the same thing shrunk to .65??NOT. Sure some of its base design might be the same?but how does anyone really know until it comes out.
Talking trash
by ykhan67 February 18, 2006 9:06 AM PST
Mooly Eden talks up some good trash. It's clear that he's hoping that he can close up the performance gap with AMD by using Intel's manufacturing capacity advantage to produce some really big chips with 4MB of cache (4 times more than what AMD puts in its own chips). Of course the danger there is that the more cache there is the more circuitry there is and the chances of having some bad circuitry during manufacturing are correspondingly higher.

Also there was a rumour that AMD is already prepared to implement ZRAM technology in its caches. Most caches these days are made with SRAM technology, which requires around 5 transistors to create one RAM cell. ZRAM is a technology that can do this with one transistor! Therefore if AMD wanted to, it could implement a 4MB ZRAM cache in less space than it takes to put on 1MB SRAM cache.
Reply to this comment
The idiot claimed that 2x 32 bit core better than 64 bit
by sharikou February 18, 2006 5:40 PM PST
Says Schmuel "Mooly" Eden, an Israeli engineer who helped spearhead the Centrino launch and now heads marketing for the Mobility Group: "When I went back to Israel to talk to some of the engineers, they said: 'You're only one year in marketing, and already you're brain-damaged."'

http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/051230/b3966001.html?.v=1


One thing Yonah won't have, at least initially, is the ability to run 64-bit applications.

http://news.com.com/Intel+spills+beans+on+Yonah,+the+next+notebook+chip/2100-1006_3-5729925.html


"We made a conscious decision not to include it" because of the impact on battery life, Eden said.
View reply
Typical Marketing Strategy
by mstlyevil February 18, 2006 12:40 PM PST
This is just a typical marketing strategy to promote their new cores. Of course Intel is going to say their new cores are going to perform 20% better than AMD. The problem with this is that AMD has not just been siiting on their rears waiting for Intels response. Even if the new cores from Intel outperform AMD, in six months AMD will release their new cores and still be at least a year ahead of the game. Until Intel drops the FSB arcitechture and adopt Hypertransport, they are going to remain behind the game.
Reply to this comment
INTEL's marketing vaporware
by sharikou February 18, 2006 5:46 PM PST
I bet more INTEL lovers will just hold on their P4 purchases to wait for their NGMA. Such marketing hype shows INTEL is simply desperate.
I see a major upset
by Luminaris February 18, 2006 3:29 PM PST
With Intels backs to the wall with the anti trust thing, I think their going to really outgun AMD this time around. Should be interesting to see.
Reply to this comment
Pointless race.
by NWLB February 18, 2006 9:40 PM PST
Intel might outgun the current AMD chips, but then AMD will take that lead back a few months later, as has been already noted.

Intel's hype does smell a lot like Microsoft's these days. They are playing catch-up and not making-up much ground. They would be better served to adopt more of what AMD has done, then start to make the chip design their own again. This game of trying to mask the major short-comings of their current design can't last.

I'm not anti-intel, I just want the best CPU out there, and right now that is an AMD chip.
View reply
Mooly Eden's brain is damaged
by sharikou February 18, 2006 4:51 PM PST
This was according to his own colleagues in INTEL:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/051230/b3966001.html?.v=1
Reply to this comment
INTEL's desperate vaporware
by sharikou February 18, 2006 5:01 PM PST
http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/051230/b3966001.html?.v=1

"There definitely are people who are highly skeptical, who think this is all fluff, all just gloss -- that if you make good technology, you don't need the glitz," says Genevieve Bell....

"People are smart enough to pick quality when given a choice, and calling something a platform doesn't guarantee quality," Ruiz says....


One example of the new approach is Bern Shen. A doctor who practiced internal medicine for 15 years, he joined Intel three months ago to help develop technologies for digital health. He works with Intel's ethnographers to figure out which technologies might help in monitoring the vital signs of the elderly or tracking the diet of people with Alzheimer's. "The fact that they hired me is an indication of the new Intel," he says.

"They are pushing some very innovative approaches, in areas that relate to dementia, Alzheimer's care, and Parkinson's disease."

Says Schmuel "Mooly" Eden, an Israeli engineer who helped spearhead the Centrino launch and now heads marketing for the Mobility Group: "When I went back to Israel to talk to some of the engineers, they said: 'You're only one year in marketing, and already you're brain-damaged."'
Reply to this comment
Bored?
by djemerson February 20, 2006 7:33 AM PST
Or just lonely?

We get it. You don't like Intel or Eden.
View reply
Intel gets an A for effort
by David Dudley February 19, 2006 12:48 AM PST
An A for their marketing effort! But their engineering has yet to be able to live up the story they've spun.
Reply to this comment
Intel Next-Generation Chips
by February 21, 2006 2:51 PM PST
NGMA= eNiGMA.
Reply to this comment
Conroe is slower than Athlon 64
by sharikou April 15, 2006 5:55 PM PDT
http://sharikou.blogspot.com/2006/04/clovertown-scores-revealed.html

http://sharikou.blogspot.com/2006/04/conroe-performance-claim-being-busted.html
Reply to this comment
Conroe is slower than Athlon 64
by sharikou April 15, 2006 5:55 PM PDT
http://sharikou.blogspot.com/2006/04/clovertown-scores-revealed.html

http://sharikou.blogspot.com/2006/04/conroe-performance-claim-being-busted.html
Reply to this comment
(23 Comments)
  • prev
  • 1
  • next
advertisement

Latest tech news headlines

RSS Feeds

Add headlines from CNET News to your homepage or feedreader.

More feeds available in our RSS feed index.

advertisement