Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 00:01:11 01/31/03
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On January 30, 2003 at 23:17:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 30, 2003 at 19:28:37, Matt Taylor wrote: > >>On January 29, 2003 at 10:06:04, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >> >>>Dr. Nikolski, >>> >>>Nehalem is obviously a 64 bit microprocessor using electron-etched circuitry. >>>Does this mean that it won't run MChess Pro ver. 8? or WChess or Chess Genius >>>or......? >>> >>>Two years to go...for a processor that will run chess programs at 5 to 8 times >>>the current speed. Do you know how much these things will cost and how much >>>power they will suck up? >>> >>>Tim >>> >>>On January 29, 2003 at 07:16:49, Yar wrote: >>> >>>>Intel is going to create a 10,20Ghz processor in 2005 >>>>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7481 >>>> >>>>Yar >> >>Nehalem -might- be 64-bit. That article gives no indication. Given that Intel >>already has a 64-bit processor in the works (Yamhill), I would wager no. Nehalem >>is a descendant of Prescott, not Yamhill. >> >>5-8? I think you mean 2-3 times as fast. Current top-of-the-line is the P4 3.06 >>GHz, and the vibe I have been getting from Intel over the past several years is >>that they're moving -away- from more work per clock on the desktop, so future >>processors may be less efficient per clock. >> >>Wattage is harder to guess, but I would assume that it will be nearing 110-120 W >>by then. >> >>They will cost just as much as Intel chips always have. I remember a time when >>the high-end original Pentiums cost $500 per chip. Lo and behold, the P4 3.06 >>GHz currently costs almost $700. With that in mind, it is easy to predict what >>future processors will cost. >> >>-Matt > > >That's pure chickenfeed. :) > >check out the price of the xeon processors with 2M L2 cache. $4000 each, >roughly. :) Xeon is completely different. It's not really a desktop processor. Well, the 2M L2 cache version isn't! Also, doesn't Itanium ship with Xeon versions? I don't think they charge $4,000 for -any- iteration of P4 despite how overpriced it is. I was also thinking over claims that future CPUs from Intel may include IA-64 support as well...hmm...I had heard Intel planned to put IA-64 on the desktop, but with all the things they had to cut from P4 to conserve die space, combining them on-die seems unlikely. Either they're talking about an efficient IA-32 to IA-64 translator, or this really sounds bogus. Interesting that Intel cut their x86-64 project, too. -Matt
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