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Source: SemiAccurate

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By StevoLincolnite on 10/15/2012 3:03:44 AM , Rating: 3
Via you're our only hope...
/end tongue in cheek.

Server wise AMD aren't doing to bad, they do have the 12 core Interlagos which was a step up from the 12 core Magny-cours. (Not a typo.)

Good thing for AMD is that servers can generally use every single thread you throw at it and it's usually integer heavy which plays into the Bulldozers architecture's strength.

However these days a larger emphasis has been placed on TDP's in the server space as power consumption is a massive cost burden, which is where Intel based servers shine over AMD's ones.

And don't kid AMD, they know how lucrative the server space is, which is only going to accelerate as more and more devices rely on the internet, which was how we got Bulldozer in the first place with it's poor floating point but excellent integer performance.

But in the Mid-Range and High-End consumer space, the sad fact remains they severely dropped the ball.

Whether it will be fixed when they "fuse" the GPU into the CPU tightly enough where the GPU handles floating point remains to be seen, GPU's after all are very good at such tasks, but cutting back on engineering isn't going to accelerate such a transition unfortunately.

