BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Badhardware already has been reporting that AMD's Revision G core is only K8 65nm shrink. And hinted on 1H 2008 as the point where new core will be introduced. New core named K9 or K10? I would rather call it K9. Why? Nothing radically new is there. Yes, there are: HT3.0 , FB-DIMM , AM3 socket , 4 cores, but, is that something radically new? No. However, at least one thing must be radically new inside or, on the contrary, that wouldn't be a new microarchitecture , isn't it? And what that might be? AMD's implementation of SSE4 support. It would be multipurpose 128bit unit for multimedia use, but for Floating point too. And finally, what about 45nm at AMD?. Badhardware identified it in 1H 2009. Surely, that will be only new core (K9?) 45nm shrink. Then K10 is somewhere beyond the year 2010! . AMD gave up from further clock boosting, after the same problems Intel had experienced. In the future, we will notice at AMD evolution towards more better cores , and that is all. Due to global cooling effect. And that in return might freeze AMD's (and Intel's) new processor launches. With imminent further delay of Vista and the future Microsoft's OSs and service packs.
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