Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:25:21 01/20/00
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I suspect the reason the TM processors are sometimes billed as 128-bit is because the instructions are 128 bits long. It has nothing to do with the register size. -Tom On January 20, 2000 at 11:49:06, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Leonid, > >Thanks to http://www.transmeta.com we will have processors built by IBM that >will handle applications that are written in 16,32,64 and 128 bit. Don't ask me >how they do this but it is called "code-morphing technology". The central part >of the TM processors is written in 128 bit Linux code by Linus Torvalds. > >The really fantastic part of these Crusoe processors is the 10 milliwatt to 2 >watt power consumption. The initial PC TM 5400 chip will run at 700 Mhz and >have an onboard 400 Kbyte cache. Wow... > > > > > >Tim Frohlick > >> >>Where is the new 64 bits chip? >> >>I waited for the new 64 bits chip in 1999 - it never came. Feel me impatient in >>2000 but found no noises about it in the new computer revue that I bought. Can't >>wait any more quietly since I expect to rewrite my chess logic for 64 bits >>machine and gain a lot of new speed. If you know somehow about the 64 bits chip, >>that will be done by Intel or other company, please say what you found about new >>chip. >> >>If you want to say your opinion about what is realistic to expect from the next >>64 bits "gold rash", you are welcome. Maybe what should be your expectation that >>next chess game will be able to perform in the nodes/second rate. How many plies >>new chess game will be able to see in the time between 1 and 10 seconds, if it >>will be looking for response by simple brute force logic. Or just whatere you >>find interesting to mention about above topic. >> >>Thanks for responding! >>Leonid.
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