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AMD's biggest mistake by an order of magnitude was betting everything on CMT only to find out it was a bust, but they were stuck pumping out variants for the ne
by hajile 8y ago
AMD's biggest mistake by an order of magnitude was betting everything on CMT only to find out it was a bust, but they were stuck pumping out variants for the next 7 years.
- robotbikes 8y agoFor anyone wondering what CMT stands for, it is Clustered Multi Threading which was used before Zen. Evidently it wasn't as effective as SMT. I wasn't aware but this link has a brief explanation. (https://www.quora.com/How-are-physical-cores-in-AMD-better-than-Intels-hyperthreading-for-gaming https://www.quora.com/How-are-physical-cores-in-AMD-better-t...)
- deaddodo 8y agoWhich can be directly attributed to Dirk Meyer’s personal and technical team leadership. I highly doubt Jensen would have pursued the same course. I’m not an Nvidia evangelist or anything, but one has proven results and the other only has failure after failure under their belt.