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Subject: Re: You think you seen fast clock speed?

Author: Adrien Regimbald

Date: 04:02:47 06/14/00

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Hello,

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>    Later this year, Intel plans to launch a new PC processor code-named
>Willamette, which it says is based on a completely revised architecture from
>today's Pentium III. Intel said it will debut the processor at a clock speed of
>1.4GHz.
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>   When will this end?...ie..how fast can a processor possibly run
>   at room temperature?


I'm overjoyed to hear this! ;)  I have been getting sick of the strategy of
making constant tiny improvements to the existing architectures - a move to a
completely new architecture would be tremendous!

From my classes on architecture, there were a lot of _very_ interesting
optimizations done to CPU architecture and strategies at the start of the PC
boom.  Lately though, it has just been a mantra of "smaller smaller smaller,
more more more!" with no interesting advances made - I can't wait to see what
they've done for the new architecture :)


Regards,
Adrien.

• Re: You think you seen fast clock speed? Tom Kerrigan 10:43:16 06/14/00
  • Re: You think you seen fast clock speed? Adrien Regimbald 13:15:51 06/15/00
    • Re: You think you seen fast clock speed? Tom Kerrigan 14:25:44 06/15/00
• Re: You think you seen fast clock speed? James Swafford 07:48:38 06/14/00
• Re: You think you seen fast clock speed? Mogens Larsen 06:08:52 06/14/00
  • Re: You think you seen fast clock speed? David Franklin 19:10:17 06/14/00
    • OT: You think you seen fast clock speed? Mogens Larsen 23:34:59 06/14/00
      • Re: OT: You think you seen fast clock speed? David Franklin 08:29:59 06/15/00
        • Re: OT: You think you seen fast clock speed? Mogens Larsen 08:43:01 06/15/00

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