Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 22:52:31 11/13/97
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On November 13, 1997 at 12:19:31, Chris Carson wrote: >see article: http://www.currents.net/newstoday/97/11/11/news5.html > >Interesting article. Lots of power 400 to 700 MHZ, >Lots of RAM (up to 3 gigabytes). >128 bit cache (up to 4 megabytes L3) >64 bit power >Native Windows NT 5.0, no translation needed. > >I hope this puts pressure on Intel!! :) > >Looks like 1998 might bring some competition. > >Best Regards, >Chris Carson Intel plans to have a 450 Mhz Pentium II by the end of 1998 with a 100Mhz bus and 2MB of 450 MHz L2 cache. With this size and speed of cache, I think that for computer chess, this Intel machine will easily outdistance a 600Mhz cheap Alpha, and would be price competitive with the 600 Mhz Alphas from DEC at that time. Which should be half the price they are today. Merced--IA64--due in 1999, should reach 1 Ghz by the end of 2000. This is, of course, still an unknown player. I think they feel the pressure. kp
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