Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 20:27:34 02/18/00
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On February 18, 2000 at 21:24:13, Dann Corbit wrote: >>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. IBM has done it, Compaq (Alpha) is in the process of doing it, AMD has announced plans to do it. Intel is evidently too muddleheaded to make "the right choice." >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. Because you have to connect the CPUs to the rest of the computer somehow, and this is pretty much impossible when it's in wafer form. The other problem is heat. >Another dumb question: >Why doesn't everyone cool the CPU like Kryotech? I'll bet the CPU would last >longer at higher MHz. Because the Kryotech equipment is bulky and noisy and basically just awkward. -Tom
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