[HN Gopher] Intel's Dunnington: Core 2 Goes Dun Dun Dun ___________________________________________________________________ Intel's Dunnington: Core 2 Goes Dun Dun Dun Author : ingve Score : 29 points Date : 2023-02-05 20:15 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (chipsandcheese.com) (TXT) w3m dump (chipsandcheese.com) | sublinear wrote: | Isn't it "dun dun dun dun"? (four duns) | pohl wrote: | Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of | the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither | count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five | is right out. | metadat wrote: | It is four if you count the leading one in " _dun_ nington". | | Edit: I like rom-antics explanation more :) | rom-antics wrote: | I think it's meant to be this | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BROpItVQPGQ | rektide wrote: | > _There, AMD still held the advantage because their | HyperTransport point-to-point interconnect let them scale to | large multi-socket configurations. Intel still primarily used a | Front-Side Bus (FSB) architecture to connect CPUs to memory and | each other, and a shared bus does not scale well to high core | counts._ | | Notably AMD's new chips are a bunch of core-complexes chiplets | (CCDs) around a shared memory controller (IOD). Still, scales up | per socket, which is the killer. | Avlin67 wrote: | I remember pushing a Q9550 @ 4Ghz on a Asus P5Q premium... on of | the best cpu I had, penryn was a really good arch ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-02-05 23:00 UTC)