Amd 64 Athlon Fx

[mika]

Consumer desktops dont need to be 64-bit,I remember Intel telling us 10 years ago,in response to AMD'S Killer new CPU architecture,AMD64.According to Intel at that time,the only need for for 64-bit computing was in the enterprise sector, where it had its Itanium CPUS'S.Soon after Intel started releasing 64-bit consumer desktop cpu's with its equivalent of AMD64 instruction,called EM64T.AMD'S AMD64-Bit architecture debuted in 2003 with its Operton Cpus's for servers and workstations, and then in the Acclaimed Athlon 64 series of Chips, Ahead of its Time,AMD64 didnt just introduce 64-bit computing to the desktop:It also brought us the concept of an integrated memory controller,rather then using a front side-bus,An idea that Intel did not adopt until the Nehalem architecture and the first Core i7 CPU in 2008. Athlon 64 Trashed Intels Pentium 4 in both 2-d and Gaming Benchmarks by a significant margin, and it cost less.Until this time,Amds cpus had cheerfully occupied the budget end of the cpu market,with its Athlon XP-2500+ chips proving popular with Overclockers!.But that changed with the Amd64 The company relised it had the most efficient desktop cpu architecture available and,for the first time,we saw premium Amd chips,with some FX chips costing over 500 (euro),and people happily paying for them! Amd64 Managed to achive a really strong balance between strong Integer and floating point performance, coupled with a comparatively short execution pipeline. The netburst architrcture was built for squeezing the highest clock speed possible out of the chip,whatever the consequences. AMD 64 was simply incredible.Ahead of its time,supremely powerful and significantly better then the competition from Intel.It now serves as a Reminder of why we need Competition in the Pc buissness.Intel later the Net-burst architecture, despite having a roadmap predicting a long future for it,After years of success,Amd 64 was Intels wake-up call,prompting it to drop the long execution pipeline of netburst and go back to tweaking the P6 architecture that served as the basis of the older Pentium III.We now have 64-bit desktops,Integrated memory controllers,shorter execution pipelines as standard,all thanks to AMD64.CPC