2005: Stormy Year for Desktop CPUs
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Personally, I think that it is going to be hard to label 2005 from a hardware point of view…
When we look back on 2005, it’s easy to declare trends: “The Year of Dual Core” or “The Year of 64-Bit.” It was all those, and more. By the same token, not all that much new arrived on the scene. Sure, AMD and Intel managed to ship dual-core processors for mainstream desktop systems, but neither offered much new architecturally. Intel finally shipped its version of x86-64, dubbed EM64T. Although less efficient in subtle ways at 64-bit processing than AMD’s 64-bit architecture, EM64T gets the job done. [Read the rest]
