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Subject: Re: Future AMD processor

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 15:03:53 08/05/01

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On August 05, 2001 at 15:32:56, jorge luis borges wrote:

> This was snipped from Slashdot, where some AMD employee posted some
>interessting thing about future AMD processor.
>
>"The next-generation chips from AMD are being designed with programming
>optimizations done at the firmware level. For example, a FORTH interpreter is
>being ingrained into the preprocessing area on the chip die itself. This makes
>it easier not only to add firmware-level software like BIOS, bootloaders, etc
>more easily, without resorting to running the code through a compiler into X86
>instructions and machine code, but it will also make it much easier to write
>more optimized C compilers (and other compilers for that matter). If you combine
>this with the improved instruction technology that AMD will be incorporating, it
>makes for a very powerful new platform for all programmers.
>
>Dwain Snyders
>Research and Development, AMD"
>
>    Reading this I wonder if soon we can have a Fritz or Tiger firmwares running
>on the core. Now thats will great!

That is _basically_ what made Deep Blue so strong.

It needed no software, to know 100% how to play chess.


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