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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