1207 Pins; Reason: PCIe?

21 Jul, 2005 at 8:44am ET Article published in Tech

What else could the extra 200+ pics be used for? PCIe is a good guess. Latency would be wicked low. Latency across the board would be greatly reduced. Imagine 10GigE running straight into your CPU? Instant access to a PCIe card seems like the next step for CPU manufactures.

If you were wondering what all those pins on S1207 were for, wonder no more. If you need I/O that scales with the number of CPUs, look no farther. If you want this from AMD, it will happen. If you want it from Intel, it will happen too, just 18-24 months later, *COUGH* Nehalem *COUGH*.

This one is a clear win for AMD, or it will be when it comes out. Other than pins, and the associated cost, I really don’t see a down side. You can always add more lanes with a HT based controller if you feel limited, but AMD would probably prefer that you add CPUs.

Why would AMD want to make chipsets when they could integrate everything on it’s own CPU?

Source: The Inquirer

Comments

21 Jul 2005 ~ 2:23pm IT is MEEEEEEEE AMD owns. I really like this. Cant wait.
21 Jul 2005 ~ 5:17pm drasnor I think there's a line that shouldn't be crossed as to "too much integration". Can you imagine how expensive these chips will be with all that stuff on there? What happens when my processor isn't fast enough anymore? Will I have to shell out $1000+ for a new "core unit"?

-drasnor
22 Jul 2005 ~ 7:37am Enverex Although, where does the use of 10GigE come into home systems? Most peoples PCs Hard-Drives aren't capable of over 50MBs sustained transfer rate, nevermind 1.25GB/s .
22 Jul 2005 ~ 11:02am mmonnin Opterons?
22 Jul 2005 ~ 11:53am airbornflght hmmm I think its a wicked idea, but i think they need to get the other componets up to speed first, such as the hard drives SUSTAINED, not burst transfer speeds, memory speeds and fsb speeds need to be lifted. But that would be a great processor if everything else could run the same speed
22 Jul 2005 ~ 7:29pm mmonnin Intel raised the FSB, it didnt help much. They realized that, and the new Intel CPUs are going to come out with the same old 800MHz FSB.

The slowest part of the computer is the Hard Drive. If we could get a totally new hard drive, like mram or something else that would be great. But its too expensive. There are a lot of technologies out there that could make the PC a lot faster but they are not reasonable.