Into the Core - Intel's New Core CPU

Tyler Too writes "Hannibal over at Ars Technica has an in-depth look at Intel's new Core processors. From the article: 'In a time when an increasing number of processors are moving away from out-of-order execution (OOOE, or sometimes just OOO) toward in-order, more VLIW-like designs that rely heavily on multithreading and compiler/coder smarts for their performance, Core is as full-throated an affirmation of the ongoing importance of OOOE as you can get.'"

and this is why...

[escay]

overheard at the intel core processor design lab:

"Brian, there's a message in my cereal! it says OOO..."

Out-of-Order Operation Handling And High Hopes

[digitaldc]

Do you think that when we open up a new Apple(TM), we will find a Core(TM)?

Re:Hey Wait

[G)-(ostly]

Just for that, I'm never buying Intel again either.

OOO? What about AAH?

[m4c north]

and for the dyslexics out there: AAH and OOO

New Intel marketing slogan?

[MECC]

"You can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Core!"

Re:AMD Vs Intel: Round 8

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, the problem is probably in the chipset, rather than the processor. Old AMD-compatible chipsets were really flakey and full of incompatibilities (I remember way back when getting an nvidia card to work on AMD was a crapshoot... and only now are there nforce chipsets for intel ;) Not just AMD's own chipsets, but chipsets by via etc, for amd processors were pretty bad.

My own motherboard (I think its around 4-5 years old) uses the AMD768, which has a known errata, which paraphrased, reads like this: "AMD768 occasionally fucks up. We don't know why, and we can't fix it, but we've got a machine with a PS/2 mouse here that it's never happened to." Sure enough, I plug in an old ps/2 mouse (it now hangs from the back, i still use my usb mouse) and the hard locks and drive corruption that would happen every few days if I didn't reboot the machine nightly hasn't happened since.