In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore made a prediction, now popularly known as Moore's Law. It states that the number of transistors on a chip doubles about every two years.

Things are about to change. The battle now is on core. Single, dual, quad core cpu's populate the market. But a very odd thing happened inside AMD. Instead of doubling the cores, AMD announced they were coming out with a triple-core processor in the Phenom family of processors in Q1 2008. Still according to reports, AMD plots 8 to 16-core super-CPU for 2009 codename Bulldozer.

AMD's Triple-Core (codename Toliman) is Phenom 7-series and plans to launch the new processor family by Q1 next year.

AMD has come out with the industries first native quad-core processor with Barcelona, unlike Intel's quad-core cpu which is actually two dualie "glued" together.

The idea of triple-core goes like this. Engineers at AMD tests the quad-core cpu core-by-core. If for example, three cores functions at 2.6GHz and the other one at 2.0Ghz, the engineers have to decide. Should they make it a 2.0GHz Quad-core or should they make it a 2.6 Triple-core?

Very clever indeed. I don't think Intel can spoil this thing by simply "glue-ing" a single and dual-core cpu.

Another first from AMD. :)

diba may four na? yung barcelona ata tawag dun? pero good idea, ayaw nila ng kalaban, so 3

well, nice update with this..pero sa intel ginaplano na nila ang quadro core..well, i dunno if kailan nila e release o totoo ba talaga un..:lol:

AMD is the [i guess] pioneer of multi-core technology.. they really are..

bago??????????????/:)

wow nice thread:thumbsup:
AMD gamit ko ngaun n processor kya bilib tlga ako sa AMD:thumbsup:

Tnx 4 d` Info'