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AMD reinvents the x86

Posted By Brad On February 11, 2007 @ 7:31 pm In BESComputers.net | No Comments

“Barcelona is a new CPU, not a doubling of cores and not extensions strapped on here and there. Get ready to be blown away long before its release, which is scheduled for midyear.” New power management scheme, 4 cores each with a dedicated L2 cache and new vector math unit. 80% speed up for floating point math.

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[1] read more: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/07/07OPcurve_1.html?source=NLC-CURVE&
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[2] digg story: http://digg.com/hardware/AMD_reinvents_the_x86_3

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