Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:24:13 02/18/00
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On February 18, 2000 at 21:09:38, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On February 18, 2000 at 18:34:11, Dann Corbit wrote: >>[snip] >>Look here (for instance): >>http://www.gateway.com/prod/cp_alr7200_Config.shtml >> >>$1640+$1049 = $2689 gives you a dual PIII 600 MHz machine. >> >>You should get about the same performance as a 1000 MHz machine (20% SMP loss). >> >>Multiple CPU's are the wave of the future. Surf it baby. Hang ten. > >Yeah, that's still pretty expensive in my book. > >I think Intel really needs to start putting more than one CPU on a die. Which >would you rather have, a 1.5GHz Willamette with a 20 stage pipeline burning a >hole in your motherboard, or several Pentium II's on one little chip? That is the obvious and logical next step. It makes dollars sense. It makes marketing sense. It makes sense in every facet of the game. I find it rather astonishing that this has not been done already. How's this for a performance idea: Why not fill up an 8 inch wafer with CPU's? Just have a circuit to detect any bad ones, and lock them out. You could put a couple megs of cache on the wafer too. Sell the ones with 100% good cpu's for top dollar, all the way down to 20% good or whatever. Another dumb question: Why doesn't everyone cool the CPU like Kryotech? I'll bet the CPU would last longer at higher MHz.
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