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Ooops: AMD are going to support SMT - its in their 2011-2012 road map! However, they don't call it SMT, they think they'll get away with calling them cores. I
by Andys 17y ago
Ooops: AMD are going to support SMT - its in their 2011-2012 road map! However, they don't call it SMT, they think they'll get away with calling them cores. It is two small integer cores sharing fetcher, decoder, L2 cache, and a single FP unit.
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3683 http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3683
- wmf 17y agoI think it would be more accurate to say that Bulldozer has conjoined cores, not SMT. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MICRO.2004.12 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MICRO.2004.12
- didroe 17y agoThis was covered in the article: >Then in 2011, we plan to introduce Interlagos...we’re designing some shared components that help reduce power consumption and die size, but you won’t see us sharing integer pipelines, the meat of the core.