AMD recently notified its partners that it plans to launch two triple-core CPUs (Toliman) in February next year while two dual-core CPUs (Kuma) will appear by the end of the second quarter, according to sources at motherboard makers. The triple-core 7700 and 7600 will have core frequencies of 2.5GHz and 2.3GHz, respectively, and a TDP of 89W.
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I wonder what the ratio of quad cores (these chips) they are producing with 1 defective core and then selling as a triple core are out of a batch of 100....
I mean it makes sense from a business standpoint, so you don't totally lose out on the investment because one core is bad.
But still that just screams the typical view in the past of AMD's quality (yes I know they had a good run with X2 came out, and some of the XP series chips... but this basically puts them in my opinion, back into the view everyone had of them in the past....
It is you who needs to get a clue. They are indeed quad cores that have failed to meet standards so the bad core is disabled. This saves them from having to throw away otherwise perfectly good tri-core processors and make some money. Intel has been doing the same thing for many years turning failed Pentiums into Celerons typically with reduced clock speeds and memory cache. Same with the Semprons.
It is you who needs to get a clue. They are indeed quad cores that have failed to meet standards so the bad core is disabled. This saves them from having to throw away otherwise perfectly good tri-core processors and make some money. Intel has been doing the same thing for many years turning failed Pentiums into Celerons typically with reduced clock speeds and memory cache. Same with the Semprons.
Where's the basis for your information that tri-core processors are made from failed quad-cores? I'd be interested to see whether the manner in which the single-die coupled cores are engineered allows HT to operate in this fashion.
At least be a little grateful, without AMD, the triple you'll be seeing is the price you pay for Intel chips.
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At least be a little grateful, without AMD, the triple you'll be seeing is the price you pay for Intel chips.
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Hear hear!
"I know that one wheel is broken but I can assure you that the other three work perfectly!" - Used car salesman
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Well said!!
They don't have to win, they are just working on increasing market share......which over the last 5-10 yrs they have done very well at the expense of intel!
Hence why intel is fighting back, but ppl don't forget if Intel won we'd go back to the old days we're all intels Genunie cpus used to cost from 700-1500 bucks.....have you forgotten that ? I havn't.
Unless your buying the fastest CPU of that range, your buying a 'defective' CPU.
AMD have the design so they can do this, Intel can't. AMD are making the best of a bad situation and I hope they sell these off cheap and undercut C2D prices by a good margin.
Can someone tell me how many core's Intel are binning because they are defective and can't be used?
And before anyone call's me an AMD fan boy, I'm typing this on a C2D system...
Unless your buying the fastest CPU of that range, your buying a 'defective' CPU.
AMD have the design so they can do this, Intel can't. AMD are making the best of a bad situation and I hope they sell these off cheap and undercut C2D prices by a good margin.
Can someone tell me how many core's Intel are binning because they are defective and can't be used?
And before anyone call's me an AMD fan boy, I'm typing this on a C2D system...
We have a saying for that: it's a feature not a defect.
No. Because that doesn't exist.
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