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Subject: Re: Question for Dr. Hyatt

Author: Michael Vox

Date: 15:46:35 11/22/02

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Thanks Bob.

I read an article in 2000 that CPUs will be operating at 30ghz by 2005.  Do you
see this on the horizon ?  If not, what speed do you predict in 2005 ?

Regards,


On November 22, 2002 at 17:31:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 22, 2002 at 05:57:01, Michael Vox wrote:
>
>>
>>Actually anyone's input it welcome, if you can help.
>>
>>In regard to Intel Itanium 64-bit chips, are these going to replace the standard
>>Intel 32-bit chips ?
>
>Them or something else Intel might choose to do.
>
>>
>>If so, what do you think will be the time line on this ?
>
>I'd say a 5-year clock is ticking down.  Whether it is set to 5 or 3 is
>debatable.  But
>it is ticking nevertheless..
>
>
>
>>
>>How much faster would an Itanium run Crafty compared to a standard 32-bit CPU ?
>>
>
>It is hard to compare the two.  A 1ghz IA32 might hit 500K nodes per second.  A
>1ghz Itanium2 will clock in at over 1.5M nodes per second...
>
>
>
>
>
>>Any other input on the Itanium chips would be appreciated.
>>
>>Regards,
>
>
>They are both fast, and at the moment relatively pricey.  They are selling for
>about what
>the 2M L2 cache xeons are selling for, that is in the $3,000 price range for the
>bare cpu
>chipo.  Of course, those prices will drop as production supplies increase and
>yield goes
>up and demand increases.
>
>It's just a matter of time...



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