Author: stuart taylor
Date: 05:35:25 08/27/03
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On August 27, 2003 at 00:16:33, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On August 26, 2003 at 20:28:43, stuart taylor wrote: > >>Will such a thing be soon, and stabalized etc? >>If so, I think that would be my next computer. >> >>I believer that even the desktops havn't reached this stage yet. >> >>So when might it be in laptop? >> >>S.Taylor > >There is some analysis of die photographs of Prescott (Pentium 5?) that >indicates that it will be 64 bit, but my guess is that it won't. Intel might put >some 64 bit logic in there that can be turned on later (Pentium 6?), sort of >like what they did with Hyperthreading, if AMD64 turns into a runaway hit, but >right now I imagine they still don't want to eat their own babies (i.e., >Itanium). > >So I'm guessing your only options for a 4.2ghz laptop processor are future AMD64 >processors... They're supposed to get up to 2.6ghz with their 0.13um process so >they might barely get there with 0.09um in a couple years... Intel got a ~50% >speed increase from 0.18um -> 0.13um, but keep in mind that the P4 was designed >for the 0.13um process. But that'll be a top of the line desktop processor, give >it another year or more to become "mobile." > >Your other option is a PPC 980 Mac. They're supposed to be at 3GHz next year and >the 970 is supposed to have good power consumption so it might likely get to a >4.2ghz laptop form before AMD... > >-Tom
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