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The Inquirer: Delayed AMD64 compiler shows great promise
For its unreleased product, the Portland Group is making performance improvements claims averaging 34% over PGI Workstation 4.1 on several industry standard benchmarks. Now that is a huge hike in performance from just compiler optimizations.
The SPEC2000 floating point benchmark shows one Opteron result improving by almost 375%.
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The Inquirer: Is IBM building a fab for AMD?
A REPORT IN Semiconductor Business News follows up an earlier article it published about collaboration between IBM and AMD.
According to the report, IBM is equipping one of its buildings in East Fishkill with a 300mm (12-inch) fab, and will give that fab to AMD for it to make future microprocessors.
We reported on the 18th of May, in this article from the AMD Opteron launch, that AMD no longer really has a chip R&D facility. The CPU team is already in FIshkill.
The report also suggests there is a wholesale move of AMD process engineers from their current offices in California to New York state, all with the aim of fashioning CPUs at 65 nanometers and using silicon on insulator technology.
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