Intel - AMD Bhai Bhai

As any computer buyer, I used to get into the mud of confusion when I have to make a selection between Intel and AMD processors. Both people are excellent in drawing graphs, counting benchmarks and chairmarks and writing long stories about their chip. Both are coming out with many core chips. Both are having their PhD in interpreting "Hz, MHz and GHz" in the way they like. Both are claiming as they are cutting the operational costs by lowering the power consumption. Both are talking about the global warming and environmental hazards caused by the heat emitted by computer processors. On top of all these, they are doing market speeches about multi threading, hyper threading, execute disable bits, parallel processing, sequencing, access protection...... innocent buyer is thrashed out!

I strongly started thinking that there must be an end for this war. Usually my solutions are very simple. Same is in this case too. Accept that both processors are good on what they are. Buy each piece of both the processors and integrate them into a single mother board. We are done!

There are few people in the world who are capable of thinking out of the box that can come out with innovative products. I found on such product which is a motherboard with support for both Intel and AMD processors. You may check it here. This is a motherboard which can accommodate either Intel or AMD processor. Customer got the flexibility to choose or switch on a later time.

Aaahh... it is already there in the market! Then why this crazy guy is speaking as if it is his invention? - The question.

As I used to say, even though these people are thinking "out of the box" and creating the innovative product, they will not get out of the box, fly till moon and then think from there! I am there to think from the moon!

If you look at above motherboard, it is clear that it can have only one CPU - either an Intel or AMD. But the motherboard I am going to build is having the capability to accommodate and operate both processors at the same time. The minimal version will look like a dual processor computer which will have one Intel and one AMD processor.

Both the processor will share the resources as in the case of any dual processor architecture. Resources mean the memory, hard disk, bus, daughter peripherals such as display, sound etc etc. So simple!

Now look at the software part. It can be a new operating system itself or it could be an "Intel AMD Bhai Bhai Driver" which does the trick. It should be capable to work based on a list of applications with both Intel and AMD performance indices. For every application there will be three basic processor modes defined:

Intel

AMD

Auto

If the application is in Intel mode, whenever the user opens the application, it will be executed on the Intel processor. Similarly, an application in AMD mode will be always executed on AMD processor. The key is the performance. We have noticed the performance reviews of software - for example MS Office is faster on an AMD PC and at the same time Adobe Photoshop is faster on Intel. In such scenario, we will map Office to AMD mode and Photoshop to Intel mode. This will give us the optimum performance.

And the third mode - the Auto mode - will choose either one of the processor for the selected application based on various parameters. Parameters may include the current processor utilization. All non-classified software or those software where performance is not a deal can go for this mode. Notepad is an example.

If we could achieve this, it will be wonderful. As the suggestions in my previous posts, this may not help in improving the GDP, but it can eliminate the confusion on selecting processor as well as it can bring the best in the desktop. Also, this is a nice idea for any company who is trying to come up in the market with an innovative product. Also the risk in introducing this new product is very minimum as compared to any other new innovations.

This time, let me deviate from the usual question - "Can I see a third hardware giant in the industry that fly on the top of other two?"