AMD Trinity could be have 2 billion of transistors

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06-06-2011, 05:04 PM
kuroikenshi

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Originally Posted by bamtan2

who cares about adding graphics to bulldozer? I don't get it. Graphics are a waste of silicon on high end workstation/server chips if anybody asks me.

Yeah I totally agree, Parallel processing is such a waste of time, alongside OpenCL, adding parallel processing to a cpu... what a waste of time... in a very cynical way...:shakes:
06-06-2011, 05:25 PM
Aberration

Yeah and the 486DX was such a waste of time compared to the 486SX.
06-06-2011, 05:27 PM
highoctane

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Originally Posted by -Boris-

If people actually bought what was best between 1999 and 2006 AMD might had more R&D capacity today.

People buy what they are comfortable with, if people used the "buy whats best" ideology things might have turned out much worse for AMD in the end.
06-06-2011, 05:34 PM
Aberration

It all comes down to the Pentium. Not the actual product, but the name. Before then it was a bunch of numbers. By the time AMD was something to look at, they had lost the marketing. Most of this technical stuff is just way above the head of the average user. They don't understand MHz, GHz, i7 or any of the other silly numbers that they use. Thats why Apple is so successful.

I am pretty sure they would be far more competitive today had Intel not used some of the practices they did. But I think Intel would still be leading by a healthy margin.