Intel moving forward with incredibly fast 45nm chips, what will AMD do to counter?

It seems that Intel isn't going to be losing it's crown as fastest CPU manufacturer any time soon. They are testing new 45nm chips that will increase the processing speed of their processors from 8-10GB/s up to an incredible 128GB/s and that's just at 2.2Ghz clock speed. It is speculated that if they can manager to increase the clock speed to those of the Q97xx series that they would be able to accomplish an incredible 200GB/s if not more.

In comparison, AMD's quad core, Opteron processor can manage about 8GB/s. Assuming that AMD is not going to utilize Intel's new methods of production, it is unlikely that we will see AMD processors as being any serious competition to Intel in the near future. AMD does have plans for new processors to be released in 2009, the "Bulldozer" processor, however, they are still working on completing the "Shanghai" processor to be released later this year and there is still very little detail about that processor and as such, even less information available about the "Bulldozer" processor. However, the one thing we do know about "Bulldozer" is that it wil be a total redesign of the AMD processor. "Shanghai", to be released later this year, will be the last of the Athlon 64 based chips AMD is going to produce before "Bulldozer's release.

Changes on the blog

If anyone at this point is following this blog, you will notice some changes I just made. I have changed the theme a little bit (still playing with that, so you might still see it continue to change). I also changed the title and description. This is in an effort to try to re-direct the focus of this blog. I am going to start focusing on two subjects that are very near and dear to me: Bicycles and Computers. For the Bikes, I'll mainly be covering my commutes and stuff that is in cycling news (or maybe not) and with computers, I'll be covering "hacker" conventions that I attend regularly and I will be throwing up some interesting computer news on occasionn too.

New hours, New commute, New Apartment

Alright, well thanks to the guys at ecomodder.com giving me the extra boost of motivation I have needed I have begun riding my bike again...a lot. I do the daily 10 mile round trip commute to work 5 days a week which so far has knocked a total of 280 miles off my car per month so far. I have also started riding pretty much everywhere else too. I rode to my parents house the other day, about 11 miles away, but had to have them drive me home with the bike on the rack because we ate dinner too late and riding 11 miles in the dark didn't sound like much of a plan.

I've also picked up more hours at work, and CONSISTENT work at that! I'm now pulling almost 30 hours a week, so I can actually afford stuff, WOOHOO!!! The only thing that kinda sucks now though is that I have to wake up at 6:30AM to have time to eat and get out the door and to work on the bike (commute takes about 30 minutes) and then still have enough time to clean up a little before I sit down at my desk for the day. The commute home is great though, I get off at 2PM and that means there is NO TRAFFIC so it's a really relaxing commute, all be it uphill.

In upcoming news, I'm preparing to move at the end of next month. I am moving in with one of my fellow con goer buddies that I met at Carolinacon earlier this year and she's really great, we get along like we've known each other for years. The other plus to moving there is that the place is literally across the street and down a block from the apartment, so I won't even need my bike anymore to get there. So, I've begun packing for that all while making plans for going to H.O.P.E next month too. Looking forward to that as well, I'll be posting here while I'm there (assuming I can find some secure wifi while I'm there, unlikely) and putting up some pictures as well on my flickr page, so be looking for that.