IBM Veteran, Mitbegründer des Server Startups Newisys und nun seit September Nachfolger von Fred Weber als Chief Technology Officer bei AMD - in einem Interview äußert er sich zu AMDs Perspektive.
In dem Interview spricht er über den Einsatz von spezialisierten Co-Prozessoren und der Realisierung mittels HyperTransport.
"Being able to do that requires a co-processor, or attached processor elements that would attach into a standard system. We don't have any finalized plans yet, but if you look at the workloads in the data center, you're starting to see applications where, if you could accelerate XML and Java, a number of the vertical applications would perform significantly better. So instead of trying to build a machine that's just aimed at workloads, you can think about the attached processor or co-processor that works in conjunction with our AMD64 architecture to accelerate those workloads."
Auf die Frage nach einem K9 oder Hammer 2 antwortet er, dass vor 2007 kein neuer Core zu erwarten sei, da man bis dahin mit schrittweisen Ergänzungen, wie zum Beispiel neuen Speicheranbindungen den aktuellen Core erweitern würde.
"So right now, our belief is that through the 2007 time frame, using new implementations of the existing core with extensions and memory technology is the right answer. Then, roughly in 2007, we'll see the introduction of a brand new core design kind of under the covers."
Auf die Produktoffensive Intels und die Umstellung auf 65 Nanometer angesprochen, gibt er die von AMD in letzter Zeit gewohnten relativ gelassenen Antworten:
I give Intel great credit for creating a myth. (laughs)
They've canceled a heck of a lot more projects than we've canceled. What I hear is the other guy is showing stuff that they're not going to ship for six to nine months and then comparing it to our stuff that's shipping today. What we showed in the analyst meeting was a road map that says, "Look guys, we have a track record of delivering improved performance every quarter." And so, if they're showing stuff that's six to nine months away, that's two to three of our steps away. ... From that perspective, I think we're in the position we need to be; we're fine. Besides, the last time I looked, people don't buy nanometers, they buy end-user performance.
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