Author: Pete R.
Date: 19:17:08 06/28/00
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On June 28, 2000 at 20:31:30, Michael Neish wrote: > >Sorry if this is old news on this board, but I just read that the Pentium 4 is >now out, clocking at 1.5 GHz. > >Any comments? > >Cheers, > >Mike. I thought there was just an official press release that Intel changed the name Willamette to Pentium 4, and the chip was not officially going to be released until 3rd or 4th quarter. In any case I believe this is still a 32-bit chip, so performance for chess programs will simply increase due to the clock speed. There will also be a 400MHz bus. Will this have a performance effect for chess programs? Intel of course will be trying to ram Rambus down our throats, so the machines will be very expensive. Or perhaps they will cave and implement some DDR? Itanium I think will be the first 64-bit Intel chip. I assume chess programs would have to be modified to optimally use this chip? If so how much performance gain could be expected, and which programmers will create an optimized-for-Itanium version?
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