Forbes: AMD and others on the chip forum in autumn are "Fever"

[CCID news] Introduction: Forbes, published in October 6, pointed out that major companies have presented the latest products and design plans on the autumn processor design Forum recently held, at this conference, Multiple kernel technologies became the focus of competition in the market.

At the annual autumn processor Forum, major companies have discussed and designed their own chip products and made predictions about the trend of future processor products, there are indications that multi-core chip products have become the path to the future of processor products.

On this forum, most companies have published their multi-core chip product plans and related information. In comparison, those that do not involve this field have become a minority. There is no doubt that in the next few years, the multi-core chip products positioned for conventional applications will gradually begin to play a dominant position in the market.

Because the chip product's heat dissipation can be controlled within a reasonable range, the integration of two or more Kernel Methods on one chip has become a shortcut to Improve the Performance of chip products.

Take the personal computer and Server products on the Windows operating system and Linux platform as an example, AMD said it was positioned in the personal computer's athlon chip product line and the opteron chip of the server. It plans to launch a dual-core version at some time next year. Kevin markgs, product line manager of AMD opteron, said the company is expected to become the first pioneer in the market to launch dual-core server chips in the middle of next year. The same thing may happen in the PC chip market, but it will be postponed until later next year.

It further said that the new chip product will increase the transistor by about 0.205 billion, which is 0.1 billion more than this generation of opteron, it will also use a 90nm manufacturing technology called "insulator silicon wafers", developed by IBM and authorized by AMD.

At the same time, AMD's old rival intel did not publish new models of chips on this forum, but intel said it would officially launch its own dual-core chip product next year.

However, when AMD and Intel's two old rivals are exploring the future of dual-core chips, transmeta, another company in the PC chip supply market, seems to have found another way to improve product performance in addition to dual kernels.

The founder of Transmeta, also CTO's David detes, described the company's next-generation processor product, codenamed Efficeon 2, on the forum, compared with the previous generation of new product models, the chip frequency has increased from 1 GHz to 2 GHz, and great progress has been made in product heat and power consumption. When the product runs at 1 GHz, the power consumption of the chip is only 3 Watts, which is half of the previous model. This is undoubtedly very attractive for laptop products such as sharp and Fujitsu. The latter two have always chosen Transmeta as the supplier of laptop chip products, at the same time, the industry's new giants such as OQO and Vulcan Ventures are also working to produce their own portable personal computer products. Naturally, Transmeta's new chips can meet their requirements.

However, the company's leadership believes that the dual-core architecture will not substantially improve the performance of personal computers, and it is more fully reflected in the notebook products, therefore, the expectation for Transmeta's dual-core chip products seems unrealistic.

"I think dual-kernel design can play a role in some Server products, but it will not be a wise choice for laptop users," he said, "It's like I need some milk, so I will drive to a supermarket not far away, but even if my speed is doubled, I cannot save too much time, in fact, the user pays more attention to convenience in the process of using the laptop, rather than over-excellent performance. According to the investigation, the chips of the laptop are not running at full capacity in most cases, therefore, dual-core chips are difficult to stand on the laptop market."

However, AMD's mark Gus has completely different opinions. He insisted that dual-core chip products will create a new era of the AMD notebook market, however, it did not directly respond to the arguments of the Transmeta spokesman.

"I think the laptop market will be the last bastion of dual-core chips ." Mark said.

Other companies that announced the design of multi-core chip products on the Forum include Freescale Semiconductor companies, as well as mobile phone giants such as Motorola, Sun, and Fujitsu. The two-core chip CODE released by the latter is UltraSPARC IV +.

At the same time, a company named Cavium Networks in California published an Octeon anti-virus processor product on the Forum to control spam and Trojan viruses. Depending on the scope of use, this series of products will be integrated with two to sixteen different numbers of kernels. The product design technology authorization comes from MIPS technology, the latter is a high-tech semiconductor company.

From: SCID