[H]ard|OCP had a chat with AMD's CTO Phil Hester about the upcoming K8L Quad Core AMD processor. Phil gave Kyle and crew some new insight as to just how AMD is looking to handle the newly competitive market served up by Intel's Core 2 Duo.
"Phil Hester knows that competition is good for AMD. With the release of Intel's Core 2 Duo desktop processors AMD is again in the #2 spot and feeling more competition than they have in the last couple of years. But AMD isn't sitting around twiddling their thumbs. They've already taped out their next-generation "K8L" quad-core processor design with healthy increases in IPC and parallelism inside an already established power envelope."
Dave and I recently spoke with reps from AMD and the company seemed excited about the improvements to come with the K8L. The first half of 2007 is going to be interesting for sure.
Marco Chiappetta
Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com
