TriEclipse
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I smash AMD? I smash AMD smashing Intel.
AMD hardly pioneered it. Most processors before the Pentium IV, including the Pentium III, were based on the same greater-efficiency-per-clock principle. Most of the existing Pentium IIIs beat the early Pentium IVs simply because of their greater efficiency. With the Pentium IV, Intel went off on a tangent while AMD did the old technology one better. Intel ran into thermal leakage, effectively halting what they could do while AMD sweeped them aside.
The main notable technologies that AMD pioneered have been the HyperTransport Bus, and the IMC. And the HyperTransport Bus isn't even AMD's invention, they just use it a helluva lot more than anyone else. But since Intel is not planning on copying either of these anytime soon, they can be disregarded in this case.
The era of microprocessors does not start on September 23rd, 2003.
AMD hardly pioneered it. Most processors before the Pentium IV, including the Pentium III, were based on the same greater-efficiency-per-clock principle. Most of the existing Pentium IIIs beat the early Pentium IVs simply because of their greater efficiency. With the Pentium IV, Intel went off on a tangent while AMD did the old technology one better. Intel ran into thermal leakage, effectively halting what they could do while AMD sweeped them aside.
The main notable technologies that AMD pioneered have been the HyperTransport Bus, and the IMC. And the HyperTransport Bus isn't even AMD's invention, they just use it a helluva lot more than anyone else. But since Intel is not planning on copying either of these anytime soon, they can be disregarded in this case.
The era of microprocessors does not start on September 23rd, 2003.