Alan At present the main difference between Intel's and AND's multi core processors are the way the cores speak to one another and the way they deal with cached CPU memory.
AMD has the edge at present, but it is anticipated that Intel will shortly be launching a new chip family to mirror AMDs intercore bus technology. Future development is anticipated now to aim towards more multicore processing power as the maximum clock speed for both companies designs are just about at limit - this being just over 3 GHz . So after this explanation the real answer is .... not a lot as developments by both manufacturers keep on leap frogging one another. A good example of this leap frogging is the current quad core processors from Sun and Intel vs the new Barcelona chip from AMD due to be launched in late October. Sun's got it on thread stability, Intel's got it on speed, and AMd'll apparently knock them both out of the ring with it's offering. HTH E -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Pope Sent: 06 September 2007 22:16 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] AMD vs Intel multicore, was: CPU temps Hi Rob, On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 22:04 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > <AMD fanboyism> Ahh I'm surprised, I thought the Intel Dual Core chips > were just two single core CPU's glued together :-)</AMD fanboyism>* > Hmm. Personally I don't give a monkeys what manufacturer it is. Manufacturer of CPU was not anywhere near top on my list when I bought this laptop. I was more interested in making sure I had supported open hardware which this ones has. I really don't know what the benefit of AMD over Intel is (or vice versa), please enlighten me :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
