AMD set to rain on Intel's Larrabee parade
IDF Spring 2008 Thunderstorm and Lightning - mama mia, mama mia
YOU WOULDN'T think that an Intel Developer Forum would be the place to find out about AMD's Thunderstorm project, would you?
AMD doesn't even want to talk to the INQ any more, so we were surprised to bump into a bus driver here in Shanghai who seemed to know more about Intel's plans than your average road pilot.
The roadmap is this. AMD's Thunderstorm project, first published on my bog a few weeks ago, will put paid to Intel's Larrabee's plans by being released before the end of 2008.
Intel is not ready to talk about Larrabee, but the bus driver said the project is far advanced and uses backward compatibility to achieve the same effects - as in 12 to 16 cores - far earlier than anything Chipzilla has up its corporate sleevies.
We don't know anything about AMD's plans - AMD doesn't talk to us any more. But it seems to brief the local bus drivers here in Ole Shanghai. µ
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New AMD Architecture
Hi,there are also rumors about a new AMD chip over there:
http://www.planet3dnow.de/cgi-bin/newspub/viewnews.cgi?id=1207000861
Everything in German though, but you can use a translator or watch the pictures.
It seems that it is based on an redesigned K6 core. It is probably a first member of AMDs energy efficient "Bob" core family.
cheers ;-)
Alex
April fools?
I'm finding it almost impossible to know what is an april fools joke or not today...Thuderstorm / Firestream?
Maybe what you heard as "Thunderstorm" is "Firestream," which was discussed at SC'07. See http://ati.amd.com/products/streamprocessor/specs.html