Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 07:42:02 09/01/04
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On September 01, 2004 at 04:56:21, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote: >On September 01, 2004 at 04:34:26, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On August 31, 2004 at 19:24:30, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote: >> >>>But in my opinion the speed of development has slow down. Do you remember how >>>log ago we had the first P4 3.2GHz? Two years? Where are we now? 3.6GHz? >>>That's not fast development. >>> >> >>Two years ago Opterons weren't even available yet. It's not because Intel is >>at a standstill that the rest of the industry is... >>-- >>GCP > >How long would you say we can have Opterons/Athlons 64 at say 4GHz (real)? >I suspect it will be quite a while. >But how long did it take from 300Mhz to 400Mhz PII or celerons? >That was 33.33% increase, and that is the same percentage increase I would like >to see these days. If we have 2.6Ghz Athlon 64 with a 33.3% increase we would >get 3.4GHz (real) wich would be very nice. >By the way I prefer AMD processors, I have one Athlon XP 2700+. > >Alvaro Remember that an Athlon 64 is still working a lot faster than a Athlon XP, or Pentium 4 for that matter, at the same clockspeed. And soon we dual core processors comming. That is some improvement.... Anyway, in the timespan of 20 to 30 years I expect a lot of new technology brake throughs that will make my ASthlon XP 2800 looking like what a Commodore 64 with a 6502 looks like now! Torstein
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