Software optimization guide for AMD K10

[Jan Panteltje]

Software optimization guide for AMD K10:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/40546.pdf

eehh, for compiler writers and the like
It also has a simple K10 block diagram in the pdf.

 

[lyon_wonder]

Too bad AMD skipped K9, otherwise they could use cool CPU codenames
like Bulldog, Pitbull, Great Dane, Rottweiler and Doberman.

.... though the budget Sempron cores would be given toy dog breed
name

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Too bad AMD skipped K9, otherwise they could use cool CPU codenames
like Bulldog, Pitbull, Great Dane, Rottweiler and Doberman.

... though the budget Sempron cores would be given toy dog breed
name

They said that the X2 lineup is what K9 became. K8 was the single-cores,
while K9 was the dual-cores.

Yousuf Khan

 

[David Kanter]

They said that the X2 lineup is what K9 became. K8 was the single-cores,
while K9 was the dual-cores.

LOL, right. If by 'they' you mean marketing guys without a clue, that
might be correct.

DK