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    According to AMD, Chief Technology Officer Phil Hester has resigned from the company. Hester left IBM in 2005 to take the CTO position at AMD, during the success of the Optron Server processor. While Hester has been one of the overseers of the Quadcore Barcelona Server processor, most of his time has been devoted to the Fusion Project. The Barcelona chip has recently become available despite many technical issues.

    It has been undisclosed if this is part of AMD's initiative to lay off 10% of its workforce, but as of yet, no replacement has been named. Furthermore there is talk that instead Hester's job responsibilities will be distributed amongst the current business units.

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    Please amd, don't die! I love you!
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    Don't die!

    ATi is finally doing great (beating out nVidia) and AMD is on the way up. Lets go AMD!
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    I guess it's just widely used and has had some of the best people in the world work on it, costing a ridiculous amount of money, for no actual reason. :/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trace View Post
    Don't die!

    ATi is finally doing great (beating out nVidia) and AMD is on the way up. Lets go AMD!
    I agree, I hope AMDs next lineup of processors kicks ass. Got an AM2+ socker so unless they do something stupid I've got room to upgrade.
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    I'm going to hopefully be picking up a socket AM2+ soon. But my current board is really nice and I'm trying to find out if it supports Phenom 9850 B.E.

    They are supposed to have 45NM out by Q1 2009 for desktops and 2008 Q3-4 for servers.
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    The 9850 looks very very good if your mobo can use it. Almost equal to a q6600 in the benches i've seen, it overclocks reasonably well and costs a little less than the q6600.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Quakken View Post
    The 9850 looks very very good if your mobo can use it. Almost equal to a q6600 in the benches i've seen, it overclocks reasonably well and costs a little less than the q6600.
    I'm definitely going to be looking into one of these in a few months. Was going to get a Phenom when I built my computer but I figured I'd run an Athlon until they fixed the issues.
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    Wooo!! Another 2 points for NVIDIA and INTEL!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fuganater View Post
    Wooo!! Another 2 points for NVIDIA and INTEL!!!
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    HAHA! You'd hate to hear me with Microsoft then

    Microsoft + NVIDIA + Intel = Greatness!!

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