Future Hammer Architecture Improvements

[Asus]

McGrath on Hammer
Main points
* 90nm samples out and are working well
Improvements that are going to be implemented in the future (possibly new revision):
* Power reductions
* Speed improvement
* Lower power in Halt stopclock states
* SSE3 (PNI)
* Enhanced data prefetch
* Ondie thermal throttling
* Additional write combining buffers
* Convert LEA → ADD
* DRAM Controller improvement
* DDR400 managing open pages 2T

That is a very technical video.
For a much more humorous and interesting video...
Bob Colwell on Architecture
He is a former Intel guy who was on the Pentium Pro team and I believe worked a bit on the P4.

I highly suggest you watch the begining of the video with Bob Colwell. At least the first 17mins.
What I like about Bob Colwell's talk is that he was pretty objective and pointed out several things that were done poorly by Intel (for improvement, not bashing). Yet hes from Intel and hes humorous on top of it.
He also has a part that he titled "The Public is weird".
There is another part you need to hear about "Blue Crystals". hehe
He basicly says their mhz are "Blue crystals" but they try to follow it up with reality (performance).

Source

 

[RandomPING]

I know i might sound retarded, but this isn't "hammer" the build engine for half life 2 is it?

 

[Asus]

Hammer is also the name for AMD64.

 

[gh0st]

that is interesting. its nice to see the heat isr eally on intel.

did you get this from THG?

 

[RandomPING]

I'm so going AMD for the next computer i build.

 

[Asus]

This isn't any big improvement with AMD.
Although it's nice to know they will soon implement updates and improvements that they are currently working on besides socket 939 with dualchannel and 1ghz HT.
What I liked was Bob giving out some constructive criticism on Intels past and advice for designing CPUs which was somewhat surprising since he was from Intel.
I'd like to hear some constructive criticism on the AMD64. Thing is I doubt there would be as much compared to Intel with their history.
New fav. quote:
"Pick your vision and then chase it. You can't pick everything as your vision. That is the recipe for mediocrity." - Bob Colwell talking about "Itanic"