Well while the CSI is almost identical to Hyper transport the IMC is actually an Intel Idea from 2001, The Timma project was to marry Rambus to an IMC, but due to the cost of rambus memory it was shelved. Intel never again touched the IMC idea again till they ran out of bandwidth for memory. But saying the architecture is copied is completly off base as the I7 is an extension of the core 2, which is not similar to the Phenome at all. The only similar thaings are the connection methods. In reply to: "Report: AMD Phenom II chips echo Intel's i7"
December 18, 2008
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