Windows 8 is coming in 2012

[MattRainier]

LOL - I'd love a computer that swore back at me after I've sworn at it. It would make app crashes and BSoD a lot more fun

Then again, you would end up having to replace a lot hardware due to fisticuffs.

Is this one of those "my computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing" moments?

 

[ccatlett1984]

588? Seems a rather odd number...

Shouldn't it be 512-bit?

My thoughts exactly.

The design of Bulldozer is heavily revamped from the previous generation. With Bulldozer, the two 128-bit FMA-capable FPUs can be combined into one 256-bit FPU. This design is accompanied with two integer cores each with 4 pipelines, the fetch/decode stage is shared. AMD names this design as a "Bulldozer module". A 16-core processor design would feature eight of these modules. But the operating system will see each module as 2 physical cores.

The fpu's are not the entire chip, its still a 64bit chip, just with larger floating point units.

 

[DarkDavil]

Shouldn't it be 512-bit?

My thoughts exactly.

The design of Bulldozer is heavily revamped from the previous generation. With Bulldozer, the two 128-bit FMA-capable FPUs can be combined into one 256-bit FPU. This design is accompanied with two integer cores each with 4 pipelines, the fetch/decode stage is shared. AMD names this design as a "Bulldozer module". A 16-core processor design would feature eight of these modules. But the operating system will see each module as 2 physical cores.

The fpu's are not the entire chip, its still a 64bit chip, just with larger floating point units.

I stand corrected