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> I stopped getting excited about CPU tech when AMD crossed the 1GHz barrier in the PC space That was only around 2000. There was a lot for me to get excited a
by DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
> I stopped getting excited about CPU tech when AMD crossed the 1GHz barrier in the PC space
That was only around 2000. There was a lot for me to get excited about since then:
* AMD64
* SMT
* Dual-core / multicore
* On-chip integrated graphics that weren’t awful (low-end discrete graphics aren’t a thing anymore)
* Gigantic L3 and L4 caches (a side-effect of on-chip graphics)
* Turbo mode making a comeback (yes, I know Turbo Mode switches actually slowed down computers)
Judging by Apple’s direction, it’s looking like we’ll start seeing actual (ultra-fast) RAM on-chip too, with Optane that could mean we can finally move-away from block-addressed storage and have a massive flat memory-space for everything .
- SoSoRoCoCo 6y agoADM64... Aka Yamhill on Intel. Holy shit I had to sign waivers and get a special Unix acount just to ACCESS the RTL model with Intel's 64-bit iHDL. I kinda laughed when AMD beat Intel to the punch not once, but TWICE. (1GHz, then 64b). I also worked on the 740, 810 and 815 (both hardware and drivers, oddly, I did a lot of stuff). Game devs HATED us for the 810/815 because it was such huge volume they had to target it as the LCD.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoCan you elaborate on all of that? I'm unfamiliar with "RTL", "iHDL", "740", "810", "815", I assume "LCD" is lowest-common-denominator?
- neop1x 6y agoCorrect me if I am wrong. RTL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register-transfer_level https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register-transfer_level RTL is a way to model a digital circuit and some common HW design languages are VHDL, Verilog amd Intel's proprietary iHDL. Numbers are just Intel chipset families.