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Since the first chips based on the AMD64 in 2003, the company Advanced Micro Devices continues everything possible from this architecture today. Even the most “fresh” Phenom kernel K10, except for a restructured organization cache, basically retain the commonality of internal organization with its predecessors five years ago. But now AMD starts talking about a fundamentally different architecture, it is true, so far without specifying any details.

AMD Technical director of sales and marketing in EMEA, Giuseppe Amato (Giuseppe Amato) said that the next generation chip architecture will be quite different from Phenom. Without giving any details, Amato, however, said that the new architecture “would solve problems that until now has never dealt in hardware”.

Develop a new architecture for AMD is a vitally important issue. While at one time AMD64 was largely a revolutionary platform for the first time supported the 64 - bit computing in the segment of desktop systems, and contain an embedded memory controller, a significant increase in performance, to date the possibility of development of this architecture, it seems, exhausted. Even Masthead Phenom, approximately equal to the price of the new Intel Core 2 Quad, unable to compete with them on performance. Thus, in essence, for the return of a sustainable market position AMD requires nothing less - to repeat the incredible qualitative leap, which has its processors Intel, NetBurst architecture from moving to the Core.