Researchers break multi-core CPU bottleneck

[HEXUS]

Hardware queue management device (QMD) could provide a 20x performance uplift.

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[Tunnah]

I read about this not long ago, it sounds really promising.

Of course if Intel pioneer it and implement it into the Xeon line it'll be another leap forward that AMD can't make itself, pushing the gap between em into a chasm, and that means Intel will continue to lead with no real competitor

[frozen-monkey]

Of course if Intel pioneer it and implement it into the Xeon line it'll be another leap forward that AMD can't make itself, pushing the gap between em into a chasm, and that means Intel will continue to lead with no real competitor

It's a vicious circle...if people don't buy your product then you can't afford to innovate so people don't buy your product so you can't afford to innovate....

AMD need to pull one out of the bag with both their GPU and CPU businesses to start taking back market share.

[lumireleon]

QMD is a good idea but dont be surprised AMD to come up with the quantum processor for domestic use

[Dashers]

It's a vicious circle...if people don't buy your product then you can't afford to innovate so people don't buy your product so you can't afford to innovate...

Back in the day there were a few companies that produced "clones". Chips and chipsets that were compatible with Intel/IBM kit. They didn't need to cover the costs of R&D as they weren't producing anything innovative, so they could compete on price.

Unfortunately Intel aggressively prices it's entry level chips too, top-loading the pricing on their high performance components that AMD can't touch.

[Xlucine]

Back in the day when nvidia competed with intel on motherboards...

[Ravens Nest]

Back in the day when nvidia competed with intel on motherboards...

The Nvidia Nforce with soundstorm i had was a great motherboard, its sorely missed.

[MercutioUK]

If we have a way, in hardware, to virtualise the processors (so the CPU handles pushing work to each core rather than the OS) that's... going to give a pretty major push on perceived clock speeds quite quickly.

It's not QUITE clear (maybe I missed it) if this will still have multiple cores presented to the system or if QMD is handling the workload of each core? There's some bits of that sound like it handles the workload (having 16x performance from a 20 core sounds like it's able to do the multi-threading internally?)

If it's in that direction.... my god, we'll see a huge leap. It'll make the jump from 32 to 64 bit look positively pedestrian.

[DanceswithUnix]

Interesting, but not massively useful for most people. All the big servers I come across run large numbers of virtual machines, they don't run one big program. There will be a few people who still do, and to them this could be a big market, but it isn't many.

Nothing for AMD to worry about.