What has happened to Intel lately?

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Dated 2012. More recent than llano.

Also if you read the annotations at the bottom:

ExtremeTech Wrote:Now, unfortunately we don’t have the exact details of how the North Carolina researchers achieved this speed-up. We know it’s in software, but that’s about it. The team probably wrote a very specific piece of code (or a compiler) that uses the AMD APU in this way. The press release doesn’t say “Windows ran 20% faster” or “Crysis 2 ran 20% faster,” which suggests we’re probably looking at a synthetic, hand-coded benchmark.

ExtremeTech Wrote:Updated @ 17:54: The co-author of the paper, Huiyang Zhou, was kind enough to send us the research paper. It seems production silicon wasn’t actually used; instead, the software tweaks were carried out a simulated future AMD APU with shared L3 cache (probably Trinity). It’s also worth noting that AMD sponsored and co-authored this paper.

Updated @ 04:11 Some further clarification: Basically, the research paper is a bit cryptic. It seems the engineers wrote some real code, but executed it on a simulated AMD CPU with L3 cache (i.e. probably Trinity). It does seem like their working is correct. In other words, this is still a good example of the speed-ups that heterogeneous systems will bring… in a year or two.

So basically what I thought. It was synthetic simulation of future HSA features that don't exist yet. It had nothing to do with llano or any real applications.

Edit: It also seems the study wasn't released so we don't know the details of what exactly they did beyond "they sped something up by 20% somehow". We don't even know which specific features caused the speedup.

Edit 2: I'm still not entirely sure what you're trying to prove here, what this study has to do with it, or how it disagrees with the points I raised.