Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 21:05:49 06/28/00
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On June 28, 2000 at 22:17:08, Pete R. wrote: >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? For programs that don't need 64-bit address space or huge memory bandwith 32-bit x86 would be faster than first implementation of IA-64 (i.e. Itaniuum). Eugene
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