AMD Attacks DDR-II Latency Issues
Sledgehammer70
California Icrontian
Why was DDR-II 667 support scrapped, and why is AMD gearing up towards DDR-II 800 and possibly faster memory clocks?
Source: The InquirerThe reason why AMD decided to scrap DDR-II 667 was because it had predicted, or perhaps just hoped, that by the time of migration to the new socket, the latencies of DDR-II would fall to the DDR-I level, and the ideal pick would be 2.5 and 3 latencies at the worst. Sadly for AMD, things went in the other direction and the only logical conclusion was to implement support for higher memory speeds. As memory standards develop, there is a possibility that AMD will add support for faster DDR-II memory by just updating the microcode, but things are far more complicated than that.
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A heck of alot of info is coming out, with new cores and other items. I guess it wouldn't shock me if AMD punked Intel to the Quad core's like they did the dual cores.... I guess time will tell.
Intel may have a more powerful processor coming, but they do not (and may never) have a processor interface architecture anywhere near AMD's 'hammer' If they really want to stay ahead longterm, they'll need to kick the FSB and move to an integrated memory controller..