AMD cuts to the core with 'Bulldozer' Opterons

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Actually I think that is BD's biggest advantage. Because of the shared Front-End, it could be more sophisticated and complex than usual.

That will yield in a better utilization of the back-end.

So far - with the litte available information - the design looks quite stream-lined to me, I like it. It looks efficient and fast. I just wonder how much of the "information" will be true in the end.

this means lower clockspeed and higher latency which is bad for floating point and simd which is the wrong direction.

Talk a lot less and produce high peformance product a whole lot more, profit margins would improve. Perhaps nVidia could take this advice to heart...

if you read quarterly reports you will see R&D for nvidia is similar to ati, dont really see how that's relevant to this thread though. amd is out spent in r&d by about 4x by intel but a lot of that could be manufacturing process.