New AMD Processors

AMD and Intel have been the dominant companies in the CPU and related industry for a long time. They’ve also been competitors. Each has developed great technologies, each with their own ideals. AMD, for example, has strained for energy-efficient processors. Intel seems to just be getting smaller and smaller; and faster.

It’s not disputed that each has sparked fierce competition in the other. Each has inspired the other. (Meaning, one may have copied certain features from the other.)

As we all know, Intel processors have defined the market for many decades. Innovative processors which seem to continually get more powerful, power the computers of so many households across the world. Computer manufacturers are comfortable working with the giant. (Dell, though, has recently chosen to start implementing AMD CPU’s in their computers; it has allowed for some price slashings.)

AMD may be more energy efficient, but it still lacks the processing power of Intel’s Core 2 Duo processors. Consider their new AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+, which is a dual-core 64-bit processor (being significantly advanced than Intel’s 64-bit emulation). Its feature specifications clock the device at 3000 Mhz; it’s definitely faster than Intel’s Core 2 Duo E6700 series, which are clocked at 2.66 Ghz. However, AMD’s processor is considerably newer, with less “experience” in the market.

Though the pricing of AMD and Intel processors are relatively even, many consumers choose Intel just because of the reputation. AMD has lost quite a bit of market share to Intel, possibly explaining the misconceptions of many uneducated consumers.

On a side point, though, Intel has managed to create an 80-core chip that operates easily at a Teraflop. This is the next-generation supercomputing, one that could show us future paths such as the super computer cores used onboard fictional starships in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and the movies of the franchise. Could we, one day in the future, be using terminals connected to a central supercomputer rather than individual processors? Could we, one day, migrate to the future of advanced technology? Could we?

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