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They had their ups and downs. The athlon 64 was a masterpiece in both performance and power consumption, in part because they made power management an integral
by iforgotpassword 8y ago
They had their ups and downs. The athlon 64 was a masterpiece in both performance and power consumption, in part because they made power management an integral part of the platform not just for laptops. At the time it was released Intel was busy pushing the pentium 4 to its limits, making it a great replacement for central heating during winter.
Then Intel was on top of the game again with the core architecture and while bulldozer (iirc) improved in that regard again Intel was still ahead, especially as bulldozer sucked pretty much in every other regard. Ryzen seems to be about on par with current Intel CPUs (performance per watt), depending on benchmark.
- B1FF_PSUVM 8y ago> Intel was on top of the game again with the core architecture Funny thing is that Core, AFAIK, came from a separate laptop chip branch. For 64 bits Intel was betting on Itanium, which crashed and burned like iAPX-432 did before. And so Intel once again was forced to stay on the 8080 treadmill ...
- iforgotpassword 8y agoYup. If was a little "side project" by their team in Haifa that turned out much better than expected. So the Israelis saved Intel. (Dramatization mine)
- harias 8y agoThreadripper was born out of side-projects too. "They worked on it in their spare time and it was really a passion project for about a year before they sought the green light from management, which is quite unusual – it was something they really cared about."