"Merom, Conroe and Woodcrest will deliver 5, 65 and 80 watts respectively
for the notebook, the desktop and the server chips."
Good to hear. 5w must be the super-duper-battery-saving-slowest-mhz mode on
a Merom based notebook. No hyperthreading either, just a dual core - fine by
me.
I assume there are quite a few former intel employees, be they engineers or
execs, who pushed the P4 bandwagon.
From: James Boswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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CoreIntel
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 23:59:31 +0000
Um Hayes, they are doing that.
reference: Merom, Conroe, Woodcrest
64bit 65nm chips due in the middle of '06, 14 stage pipelines, 2-3Ghz
clocks, 4-issue dispatch! (A64s are 3 issue, G5s are 3+branch, P4's are
2-issue)
Pentium M is P3 derived, and lacks the 64bitness, rather that futz around
giving it a 64bit overhaul, they're designing something based on a similar
philosophy from the ground up..
On 1 Dec 2005, at 18:50:280, Hayes Elkins wrote:
It's very clear that intel has abandoned trying to get better performance
per mhz out of each core for both the desktop and server - and instead
trying to max out the supporting cast of interconnects, busses, and other
I/O. The new Xeon's that intel is touting are nothing more than shrunken
cores of the same lame ass P4 cores from almost 2 years ago.
What is very puzzling is that their Pentium M (a hybrid of the PIII and
IV) is their fastest per mhz CPU - ever. Even faster than an FX in a few
cases. Why they dont switch back to a shorter pipeline design for their
mainstream CPU's now that the fab's are available to crank out the mhz?
The mhz race is about to come dangerously close when AMD puts out a true
3Ghz CPU. Which of course just OBLITERATES any intel offering.
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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:43:06 -0600
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10442_7-6389077-9.html?tag=btn
Interesting. The ref would have stopped the fight in the real world.
-_-_
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