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Title: More information regarding AMD and IBM teaming up to make chips.
Post by: Hammer on January 09, 2003, 04:23:35 AM

More information regarding AMD and IBM teaming up  to make chips. The article was from theinquirer.net

AMD AND IBM have unveiled a cunning plan to jointly develop a new generation of chip-making technologies to create future microprocessors, including 65 and 45nm nanometer chips produced on 300mm silicon wafers.
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AMD and IBM engineers will begin working together at IBM’s Semiconductor Research and Development Centre in IBM's East Fishkill, N.Y. facility before the end of this month, the companies announced.
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Basically, IBM Electronics has got plenty of capacity and top technology -- AMD needs capacity, and if the price is right, well...

Refer to The Inquirer.net (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7108) for the whole article.

Title: Re: More information regarding AMD and IBM teaming up to mak
Post by: Hammer on January 09, 2003, 07:54:59 AM

Original press release from AMD.  (http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~65496,00.html)

Title: Re: More information regarding AMD and IBM teaming up to mak
Post by: Elektro on January 09, 2003, 08:05:52 AM

This could actually be very cool. Hope they make something out of it.

Title: Re: More information regarding AMD and IBM teaming up to mak
Post by: Orgin on January 09, 2003, 08:14:19 AM

*wondering when AMD is going to try to rival the current Intel performance lead*

/Björn

Title: Re: More information regarding AMD and IBM teaming up to mak
Post by: asian1 on January 09, 2003, 09:27:55 AM

>IBM - AMD Co-operation.

IBM held important role in early AMD X86 development, because of internal "Supplier Rule" in IBM Corp.
IBM want to get CPU from another vendors beside INTEL to prevent components / spare part problem if something happens to INTEL's Fabs.

IIRC in the middle of 1980s, low end IBM 8088 PC-XT / PC use AMD CPU, not INTEL. IBM use INTEL 80286 on PC-AT.

IBM also have important role in the early development of Cyrix, Transmeta and several other CPUs.

Perhaps in the future, IBM will create multicore CPU combo that contain 2 cores: AMD X86 and PowerPC?

Title: Re: More information regarding AMD and IBM teaming up to mak
Post by: Hammer on January 09, 2003, 10:25:08 PM

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*wondering when AMD is going to try to rival the current Intel performance lead*

The gamming performance gap was narrowed with arrival of nForce2 based chipsets e.g. Quake3 FPS @ +300 (normal settings, demo001).

Title: Re: More information regarding AMD and IBM teaming up to mak
Post by: Hattig on January 10, 2003, 11:48:35 AM

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*wondering when AMD is going to try to rival the current Intel performance lead*

AMD are going to do that with the Athlon 64 and Opteron in March/April this year.

Title: Re: More information regarding AMD and IBM teaming up to mak
Post by: bloodline on January 10, 2003, 12:41:14 PM

The Athlon64 is going to be a nice chip. The 64bit mode cleans up the x86 architecture and make it much nicer (16 visible General purpose regs, 64bit regs, lots of masive ALU and FPU pipes, caches galore, flat memory model, sounds more and more like a 68k on speed ;-) ) (nice to see those ex-Alpha Engineers are being put to good use), but still be able to run old x86 apps transparently.

Title: Re: More information regarding AMD and IBM teaming up to mak
Post by: Orgin on January 10, 2003, 12:43:05 PM

@Hattig

Cool.

/Björn

Title: Re: More information regarding AMD and IBM teaming up to mak
Post by: The_Editor on January 11, 2003, 10:41:34 AM

Yeah ... Well Kewl.