[HN Gopher] Intel's Dunnington: Core 2 Goes Dun Dun Dun
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       Intel's Dunnington: Core 2 Goes Dun Dun Dun
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2023-02-05 20:15 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | sublinear wrote:
       | Isn't it "dun dun dun dun"? (four duns)
        
         | pohl wrote:
         | Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of
         | the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither
         | count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five
         | is right out.
        
         | metadat wrote:
         | It is four if you count the leading one in " _dun_ nington".
         | 
         | Edit: I like rom-antics explanation more :)
        
         | rom-antics wrote:
         | I think it's meant to be this
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BROpItVQPGQ
        
       | rektide wrote:
       | > _There, AMD still held the advantage because their
       | HyperTransport point-to-point interconnect let them scale to
       | large multi-socket configurations. Intel still primarily used a
       | Front-Side Bus (FSB) architecture to connect CPUs to memory and
       | each other, and a shared bus does not scale well to high core
       | counts._
       | 
       | Notably AMD's new chips are a bunch of core-complexes chiplets
       | (CCDs) around a shared memory controller (IOD). Still, scales up
       | per socket, which is the killer.
        
       | Avlin67 wrote:
       | I remember pushing a Q9550 @ 4Ghz on a Asus P5Q premium... on of
       | the best cpu I had, penryn was a really good arch
        
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