GCC 4.7 is available with support for AMD Opteron™ 6200 series and AMD FX series processors
Have you tried the new GCC release 4.7 yet? The recent GCC release helps improve support for AMD Opteron™ 6200 series and AMD FX series processors, and adds support for upcoming AMD processors with the “Piledriver” core. This is an … Continue reading
AMD and the Visual Studio 11 Beta
AMD and the Visual Studio 11 Beta Today marks the release of the Beta of Visual Studio 11, an exciting new version of Visual Studio that contains a number of enhancements and improvements over prior versions. While I won’t get … Continue reading
3DNow!™ Instructions are Being Deprecated
AMD introduced the 3DNow! ™ instruction set back in the K6-2 days to do Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) instructions, otherwise known as vectorized instructions. These were mainly used for graphics intensive applications and even audio processing. Since then, we … Continue reading
AMD and I/O Virtualization on "Magny-Cours" Processors
Enhanced AMD-Vi in Opteron 6000 (a.k.a. “Magny-Cours”) Platform Architecture: Virtualization is the art of abstracting or hiding the “implementation” from the “experience”. Thus the notion of various system components – CPU, MMU, and devices – presented to the Guest Virtual … Continue reading
You down with AMD-P?
It has been an exciting year leading up to the launch of our AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processor codenamed “Magny-Cours.” Compared to previous generations this new part offers up to 2x the number of cores, totaling 12-core per processor. It … Continue reading
HT Assist – what is it?
Scalable Performance with HyperTransportTM Technology HT Assist: With the release of the Six-Core AMD OpteronTM processor, formerly code-named “Istanbul”, an important new hardware feature called HT Assist has been included that helps increase performance on 4-socket and 8-socket AMD OpteronTM … Continue reading
“Istanbul” overview
Today, AMD is launching the “Istanbul” processor. Since our first dual-core processor, those of us in AMD’s CPU ISV team have been evangelizing that more cores are coming. This processor contains 6 cores on one die. Just to be clear … Continue reading
“Shanghai” blog category is now “Istanbul” blog category
With the launch of the new Six-Core AMD OpteronTM processors (codenamed “Istanbul”), the powerful follow-up to the “Shanghai” processors, we’re updating the title of this blog category to reflect the information you will now find here. Don’t worry, the previous … Continue reading
“Barcelona” blog category is now “Shanghai” blog category
With the launch of the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors (codenamed “Shanghai”), the powerful follow-up to the “Barcelona” processors, we’re updating the title of this blog category to reflect the information you will now find here. Don’t worry, the previous … Continue reading
Larger L3 cache in Shanghai, Part I
Contents: Introduction The new larger L3 cache in the Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM processor codenamed “Shanghai” Latency reduction in the new L3 cache Introduction: The core of the Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM processor codenamed “Barcelona” introduced a unique on-die L3 cache for … Continue reading
