Rob Williams
07-21-2006, 10:42 AM
I believe that these architectural features will allow Kentsfield to succeed in the short term against both the 4x4 platform and AMD's own quad-core architecture when it arrives later in the year. By that time though, I would hope that Intel's architects were well on their way to completing a native quad-core version of Conroe with all four cores sharing the same cache.
I was reading Tims column over at Bit-Tech (http://www.bit-tech.net/columns/2006/07/20/dont_upgrade_now_quad_core_is_coming_soon/), and he made some real good points. I guess I keep forgetting -just- how far into the year we are, because the end of the year is only 5 months away... which is when we should be seeing Quad Core from Intel.
He mentions that Quad Core will also have various improvements, smart memory access and smart cache, which should prove to make it the CPU to own, even if you don't -need- Quad Core.
What do you guys think?
I was reading Tims column over at Bit-Tech (http://www.bit-tech.net/columns/2006/07/20/dont_upgrade_now_quad_core_is_coming_soon/), and he made some real good points. I guess I keep forgetting -just- how far into the year we are, because the end of the year is only 5 months away... which is when we should be seeing Quad Core from Intel.
He mentions that Quad Core will also have various improvements, smart memory access and smart cache, which should prove to make it the CPU to own, even if you don't -need- Quad Core.
What do you guys think?