BAD HARDWARE WEEK

What do we have actually at AMD by 2H of 2007?

The new core K9 or only an old K8 revision H(ound) ?
But suspiciously, no more mention of K8 core or its revision H with Hound core in 2007/8, as it has been the case up to now, at the pcwatch roadmap above left? Does it mean AMD Hound is a new core, famous disappeared K9 ? Well, might be easily. Please note no FB DIMM support at desktop before 2008/9. That means FB DIMM will be initially exclusively server technology. Thus, new core K9 should support just that: FB DIMM when introduced in a year from now. But, that might be AMD's salto mortale, FB-DIMM based systems consumes a lot more power than current ECC DDR2. What are the benefits? Performance !.
K9 core should be much more efficient than K8, so increased SYSTEM power consumption should be justified only with K9's excellent performance/power-consumption ratio. It will use at least 3rd generation (65nm too) DSL or 4th generation DSL, if unveild in December 2007.Yes, more than half of typical system power consumtion is caused by processors' consumption.

Unbeatable, say for first for supercomputing use . Then shrink it to the others.
Did we definitely reveal K9 core by this reasoning chain? Check it yourself with this AMD CEO's claim.

As [Intel] closes the technology gap, it will be a much tighter race, but we're going to introduce a really new architecture that will work well with our partners for the best performance. We're going to start sampling it at the end of 2007 and roll it out in 2008.

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