Posted on 11/11/2007 2:49:12 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
No need to upgrade, these chips are for servers and there would never be a need to use one of these at home. (Or is that just an echo from long ago that I hear again?)
Who did Intel steal from this time?
I’m inclined to remember a few lines I’ve heard
“One megabyte of video memory for all your gaming needs”
and “800 megabytes of hard drive space?? You’ll never use that much”
The last two lines of the article mention a gaming cpu for $999.
Only 3.4 gigahertz seems slow to me. I thought they woulda been up to 5ish gigahertz by now.
Hahahahaha! I don't know what is funnier, the MSM writing about technology, or them writing about firearms.
My desktop computer bit the dust recently, and I’ve been wondering whether to replace it now.
Top of the line is usually too expensive. But Dell now is selling desktops with dual core Intels, and the prices are pretty decent.
Servers only...where have I heard that before...heh. Yep, guarantee that within a year, that will be the standard for personal computers... Hey, we have to play all those sophisticated games ya know...
Servers will be even more powerful...
The Future!
What continues to amaze me is how far Intel has managed to push what in many regards is truly a horrible architecture. Not that the 8086 didn’t solve some problems better than other 16-bit chips that have come since, but the 8-bit granularity of instruction sizes combined with the massive collection of prefixes must surely increase the required complexity.
BTW, one thing I’d like to see in a CPU architecture would be hardware for a 32+32 bit pointer (handle+offset) type. Such a type would make it much easier to generate high-performance applications while avoiding the dreaded “buffer overrun” errors.
i want intel to design a chip so powerful that it can project hollograms on my deskstop the way Princess Leah showed up in Star Wars...askin Obi Wan for help. She’s a babe and i for one would not mind her hangin around on my desktop...i might invite Brookie Shields to, oh and Kirsten Dunst and Kate Hudson would be nice....
The took their last ideas from the Digital Alpha chip. I guess you missed that story.
Didn’t miss a thing. If the ideas were all so great, why did DEC go under? Seems to me that Intel uses good ideas that are good, and also throws in their own innovations from time to time too.
Did Intel “steal” x64 from AMD? Or did they observe that AMD’s approach was necessary in a desktop chip after seeing AMD’s success with it, and fold the technology into the architecture?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&Description=allendale&bop=And&Order=PRICE
Above are Intel’s Allendale dual core processors. These are Intel’s least expensive dual cores
Dell refurbished-—>>>
http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnlineSales/topics/global.aspx/arb/online/en/InventorySearch?c=us&cs=28&l=en&s=dfb
Phenom cannot come soon enough...
Digial went under from bad management. Intel violated 10 patents little boy. They lost the court cast. What did you miss this history because you were still crapping yourself?
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