Intel Develops DDR3 Supporting Chipset
Intel's newest chipset, scheduled for a spring release in 2007, sports a feature allowing their processor's front-side bus speed to operate at 1333 Mhz. While it's true that AMD's front-side bus speed has been superior for quite some time now, this chipset allows for DDR3 speeds up to 1333 Mhz as well. This could, in affect, render AMD's on-chip memory controller obsolete. If that were to happen; AMD may have to develop a whole new architecture to compensate. However, a "counter-attack" may already be in the works.
Will AMD be able to develop a superior flagship architecture in time?
posted by Pupitmiser at 3:14 PM
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That can be arranged :) But you'd have to get your core clock to double it (2.674 Ghz). So there'd be an effective 1337 clock speed after DDR is taken into account; therefore RAM should be clocked at 668.5 Mhz. With those taken into account you could have your Front-side bus speed equal 1337 Mhz. 2GB of RAM in this system would be ideal for the effect 1337 bandwidth to make it's way through the fronstside bus once after every clock. That way your processor can process that data twice every clock. It'd work great.
Yay 1337 ram for everyone *huzza*
that be gr8 but i just bought a new compy :( guess ill have to wait
Yeah, we'll see what AMD comes up with to counter this. A 1337 clocked system does sound fun though. I know at least someone, somehwere will do what I sed. It's just too awesome not to.
LOL, that'd be teh pwnage, I do think that AMD has a new weapon up their sleeve and are just waiting to release it on Intel :P
Well we know that they're currently working on a new 65nm process. The only snag they've run into so far is not being able to achieve high clock speeds at the requested voltage. For their current clocks (3.0 Ghz & Higher) they currently require around 1.4 Volts. The requested voltage is 1.1 Volts. So if they're able to get that settled then they'd have very low voltage processors w/ the high clocks. Their current 65nm models running at 1.1 Volts are only able to reach clocks of 2.2 & 2.4 Ghz.
ya i don't like the sound of that but if they can get the problem fixed(if it is a real problem thet'd be g8
Don't worry; they'll be releasing their new architechture in 3-4 months anyway; If the problem isn't werkt out by then....they'll just release the 1.4v versions and have some low clocked large cache 1.1v ones. This is how I see it turning out.
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