Author: Graham Laight
Date: 04:04:58 03/02/00
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On March 01, 2000 at 23:37:30, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On March 01, 2000 at 07:37:55, Graham Laight wrote: > >>Pentium processors are a big and competitive market. Trouble is, I don't think >>they're the best architechture to put together in large numbers on the same >>motherboard. > >Intel has been hell-bent on making the world's fastest single processor. > >They seem to be ignoring the fact that several fast processors can be put on one >chip. > >If they were so inclined, I don't think it would be a problem to put 4 >(original) Pentiums on one chip. And there would probably be some space left >over for L2 cache. > >AMD is taking this approach, but I don't know when they will have a product >ready, or how much it will cost. There's no manufacturing reason for such a >product to cost more than a single processor, but I assume they will milk it for >all it's worth. > >-Tom Thanks to everyone for replying - and they're all good, interesting answers. However, what I failed to make clear was this: I wasn't talking about two, four, or even eight processors - I was talking about THOUSANDS of processors! I have read articles in the computer press about companies making multiprocessor boards of this order of magnitude in a low cost way. I think we'll have to wait a long time for the Intel architecture to scale up to that kind of level. Hence my remark that this is a marketing issue rather than a technical one. -g
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