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• The Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 1: Basic Architecture
• The Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 2: Instruction Set Reference
• The Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 3: System Programing Guide

I'm with Team Ars Technica Lamb Chop, which is ahead of MacAddict, Slashdot, and Microsoft, not to mention a certain well known CPU company that goes by the symbol INTC. Wanna join my team? Work units of all races, creeds, and colors are welcome...
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Here is a link to anECM scanner (a device that will read the diagnostic codes on modern cars) for only about $500. It looks like it can handle a wide variety of Chrysler, Ford and GM vehicles built between 1984 and 1995.

The company sells a few other interesting toys that could be of use to automotive/electronics geeks.

• Miata Engine Computer Self Diagnotics
• Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge Computer Fault Codes
• Datalogger a commercial hack from TechnMotive similar to the poster's requrest. There may be other good stuff on the TechnoMotive site.
• An overview of electronic engine control from Intel.

Intel has been doing that for awhile now, with its Processor Frequency ID utility. It identifies the current and proper CPU speed and FSB speed, but only with newer processors. It just hasn't appeared in the BIOS yet.

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Intel has been doing that for awhile now, with its Processor Frequency ID utility. It identifies the current and proper CPU speed and FSB speed, but only with newer processors. It just hasn't appeared in the BIOS yet.

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If I were in nVidia's PR department, I'd have my resume out now before the axe falls. The absolute first thing you learn in PR school is don't piss off the press.

A few years ago, Tom's Hardware was nearly shutdown by Intel because he gave them a poor review on a single product. Intel got such enormous bad press, they had to stop.

Nowadays, Tom Pabst still gives them good reviews when their products warrant it, but never gives them the benifit of the doubt (which is, IMHO, is prefectly understandable).

The CEO of nVidia will sooner or later figure out how crappy his PR department is and fire them. If these strong arm tactics get the attention they deserve, I'd guess sooner.

You're probably thinking of Intel's Legacy Free PC. Some of the pictures are, well...strange.

You're probably thinking of Intel's Legacy Free PC. Some of the pictures are, well...strange.

It's called flash memory. I have seen a QNX demo with 2 megs in a postage stamp size chip. Intel specs here.

Average power represents the power consumed by the processor while running typical office applications by an average user. Average power is measured by running industry standard benchmarks, such as Ziff-Davis* BatteryMark* 3.0 or BAPCo * SYSmark* 98 for Battery Life.

Average power represents the power consumed by the processor while running typical office applications by an average user. Average power is measured by running industry standard benchmarks, such as Ziff-Davis* BatteryMark* 3.0 or BAPCo * SYSmark* 98 for Battery Life.

"Intel's Speedstep technology allows lower clock speed and lower wattage. Surely what Transmeta is offering is not radically different to that. It will all depend on pricing," he said.

According to Intel's PIII processor thermal design guide, the mobile PIII requires up to 19W at 733 MHz. An activity like playing a DVD, around 3W. With Crusoe, playing a DVD requires 1W!! 66% savings is not radically different?!?! Real world benchmarks suggest similar savings for various applications. Intel has a ways to go to render this difference "not significant", and to deliver all day battery life.

It seems like anyone can call themselves an "analyst" these days... Perhaps his only sources were Intel marketing materials?

Great... Now I am going to have to upgrade to this new P4. My 286 won't handle the high res 8,325,644 byte logo I just downloaded.

This is not a press release for a brand name, it's a press release for the new logo... Look at that: a 8MB Tiff file for just to announce it.

Disclaimer: "These opinions are my own, though for a small fee they be yours too"

BTW the correct link is her e.

this is the correct link to the press release.
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added a ", should be http://www.intel.com/p ressroom/archive/releases/dp062800.htm

try here instead.

That should be
http://www.intel.com/pre ssroom/archive/releases/dp062800.htm

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There's an extra quotation mark after the link! http://www.intel.com/p ressroom/archive/releases/dp062800.htm is the real page.

corrected link: buyemmettanewkeyboard

Press Release for Intel Pentium IV

Everybody's favorite hardware source around here appears to be Tom's Hardware... my guess is that his whole experience with RDRAM is using Intel chipsets. Is it quite possible that Intel's way of implementing a RAC wasn't the best way? Much like Cyrix's attempts at x86 domination didn't pan out the way they would have hoped. Was x86 flawed, or was it just Cyrix's implementation of it? In the end, it's just a high-performance (if done right) spec that is going to make RMBS shareholders a lot of money.

Intel has a press release here that describes the Dot.Station, and has pictures! The unit seems to be the first aimed at service providers rather than the consumer. The Intel System Management Suite "will [allow the service provider to] be able to use the software management tools to manage customer accounts, update software, and perform remote diagnostics. This features helps service providers contain costs while providing a high level of customer service".

Looks like a good product for its intended market.

Has anyone looked at the picture of this thing? It's huge for a web appliance.
It looks like over a foot deep. One of the things that makes the Netpliance
I-Opener so attractive is it's incredibly slim form factor.

This thing reminds me of the first handheld cellular phones.
Remember how Radio Shack used to photograph them almost
head on to hide the fact that they were 6 inches deep?

Obviously, the less-than-1-watt figure was quoted while running the "Blank" screen saver or something. :-)

Average power represents the power consumed by the processor while running typical office applications by an average user. Average power is measured by running industry standard benchmarks, such as Ziff-Davis* BatteryMark* 3.0 or BAPCo * SYSmark* 98 for Battery Life.

Obviously, the less-than-1-watt figure was quoted while running the "Blank" screen saver or something. :-)

Average power represents the power consumed by the processor while running typical office applications by an average user. Average power is measured by running industry standard benchmarks, such as Ziff-Davis* BatteryMark* 3.0 or BAPCo * SYSmark* 98 for Battery Life.

Here's a chart I put together from Intel's Mobile Power Guidelines Rev. 1.00, which lists target power consumption values for notebooks. I've included Intel's numbers for the Maximum, Minimum, and Average (when running Winbench 3D) power consumptions, in watts.

Please excuse the formatting, Slashdot seems to strip out extra spaces, so I put in underscores. Plus, I'm also having trouble with the lameness filter.

_____________________ Mini Notebook_______ Full Size
_____________________ Max__Min___Ave___ Max___Min___Ave

CPU & L2 Cache ______ 6____0.36__5_____ 12____0.36__9.5
Memory Controller ___ 2.1__0.05__1.4____ 2.4__0.3___1.6
System Memory _______ 1.3__0.35__0.7____ 2.5__0.35__1.3
Graphics Subsystem __ 1.4__0.2___1.0____ 3.0__0.8___2.4
IO Subsystem ________ 2.0__0.04__0.5____ 2.68_0.4___0.6
Audio _______________ --___0.7___--_____ --___1.6___--
Modem _______________ --___0.3___--_____ --___0.4___--
Hard Drive __________ 6____0.1___1.4____ 6____0.1___1.3
DVD Drive/CD ________ --___--____--_____ 6____0.2___1.4
1394 Controller _____ --___--____--_____ 1.2__0.003_--
CardBus _____________ 2.5__0.67__--_____ 5.0__0.67__--
USB _________________ 2.5__0.0125--_____ 2.5__0.0125--
LAN _________________ 0.6__0.4___--_____ 0.6__0.4___--
Power Supply ________ --___1.5___--_____ --___2.6___--
Cooling _____________ --___--____--_____ --___0.5___--
Other _______________ --___0.8___--_____ --___1.0___--
LCD _________________ 3.05_--____2.8____ 4.75_--____4.3

SYSTEM Average____________16.7_______________29.1

The high maximum value for the hard drive comes from the power required for the initial spin-up. I didn't see a listing for separate L2 and CPU power consumptions, but as you can see, together they take up about 1/3 of the average power consumption in a full-sized notebook, with the graphics system (chip plus screen) being one of the components that takes up another big chunk.

My problem with linux has been (lately) that when I try to install redhat, the install terminates.

Sounds like a Redh*t problem...but then you said you tried Debian, too. Back in the day, I started with SLS, then went to Slackware...nowadays, I'm using SuSE. (I took a quick detour into Corel Linux (based on Debian), but I couldn't get it dialed in just the way I wanted and didn't want to waste the time to figure it out when I knew how SuSE is configured.) I've installed SuSE on everything from a Cyrix 5x86 up to a K6-III and have never run into problems. I can't say that I've ever used Redh*t, but it seems that when someone posts to comp.os.linux.* or /. with a "Linux problem," it often ends up being a Redh*t problem.

I tried one of the BSDs (don't remember which one) a few years ago...there didn't seem to be anywhere near as much activity swirling around it as for Linux, so it didn't stay on my computer long. Now that my NetWare server setup is trashed (flaky i430VX-based motherboard, not a software problem...funny how most of the hardware problems I've run across have been with Chipzilla hardware, not stuff from this underdog or that underdog) and the machine it was on is fixed, maybe it's time for another trip into "BSD-land."

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The party line is that Intel is an OS agnostic. If supporting Linux/BSD with Open Source will help sell more hardware, then that is what they will do. Like this and this.

The party line is that Intel is an OS agnostic. If supporting Linux/BSD with Open Source will help sell more hardware, then that is what they will do. Like this and this.

NUE provides the toolchain (compiler, linker, assembler), the libraries, and execution environment necessary to develop IA-64 Linux software. A user running within NUE can compile, link and execute applications as if he or she were on an IA-64 system executing the Linux operating system. (72 MB)

ftp://download.intel.com/design/IA-64/lnx_nue.htm

Merced is supposed to be a server platform mainly for enterprise and scientific applications - not for your basic desktop, which is why it costs as much as it does.

According to this page, properly optimized code will be able to execute 8-12 parallel operations/cycle. This is hardly a "waste", as you put it, of designer effort. Willamette will only beat it in terms of IA-32 code, because Merced will only emulate it.

Running native IA-64 code, unless AMD's got something up its sleeve that no one's talking about, Merced will blow Sledgehammer and Willamette out of the water instruction-wise clock for clock. Kinda the reverse philosophy of Willamette.

IMHO, I think EPIC's going to kick some major hiney, in terms of pure processing power, as soon as Intel scales up the clock speeds (coming in McKinley and beyond). It's a pretty nice concept (removing guesswork from optimization) and I have to give Intel props for sticking with their guns.

This is the top highlight on the HP site right now, and there seem to be a few download links at the HP Software Depot and the Intel Developer site. I am not going to have time to download and play with this myself just yet, so I look forward to seeing comments from people who try it out.

Respectfully, you may wish to consult the iPAQ specs and the Intel's StrongARM pages. No HD, no i386, no CDROM...

Perhaps you have it confused with one of the consumer PCs Compaq makes (the ones with funky "lump" cases)? Those are PCs.

The only 820 motherboards that have the bug are the ones with SDRAM, not the ones with RDRAM.
Ironically they are willing to trade you the buggy SDRAM one for a RDRAM one with 128MB ram.
...Maybe this wasn't a bug afterall ;)

Recent chipsets from Intel (see the doc) contain a hardware random number generator. This is interesting as an additionnal source of randomness, especially in servers where the usual randomness provider (i.e. the user in front of the keyboard and mouse) is not there. [Granted, a server is connected to a network, which tends to supply randomness too.]

What is the common wisdom on that new "feature"? Should it be trusted?

I'd be interested if some knowledgeable person would explain here the current state of development of IA-64 compilers (gcc in particular).

IA-64 is peculiar in that respect, not so because it is 64-bit (though this is likely to hurt code that assumes 32-bit int's and pointers... and that's still quite a bit, look at the difficulties with Linux on Alpha). As decribed in Intel's documentation, IA-64 is a VLIW (Very Large Instruction Word) architecture where the burden of superscalar pipelining (deciding what assembler instructions can be executed in parallel) lies on the compiler. Let us take a simple example: where you are executing
imull %edx, %eax
addl $4, %eax the two instructions cannot be scheduled on two parallel pipelines since eax in the second depends on the output of the first. Advanced design allow the CPU to "swap" certain instructions (out-of-order execution).

From a hardware design point of view, the IA-64 design makes sense: out-of-order scheduling instructions over multiple pipelines in hardware is complicated. For this reason, IA-64 allows the assembly code to specify "bundles" of instructions that can be executed in parallel. The burden is then shifted to the compiler.

Such a design allows scheduling optimizations far further than the ordinary peephole optimizations (i.e. very local tricks). For instance, in numeric code like this:
x[i][j]=expression1;
x[j][k]=expression2;
the compiler could schedule expression1 and expression2 in parallel, if they are sufficiently simple. Of course, for this to respect the semantics of the program, (i,j) must never be equal to (j,k). Answering such questions mechanically is impossible in general (Rice's theorem, reduction to the Turing machine halting problem). However, there are analysis techniques that can give the right result in most cases (such techniques can also be used to check whether two pointers never point to the same variable, or whether some array bound checks are useless) (an active research topic; see some of the research in the area).

I would like to know the current state of the art of industrial-grade compilers with respect to this automatic local parallelization techniques.

Ok, I don't want this to sound like an ad, but I work for a company that has a product that should fit your requirements. I work at a startup (called Netboost) that was recently acquired by intel and our primary product is a strong arm based dual port NIC with Linux, BSDi, Solaris, and NT driver support. Here's a url with some info. I'm not in marketing, so I don't even know how you'd go about getting one of these (though you could send me mail and I could try and point you to the right person if you were really interested). There is an API that lets you write code for the NIC to handle packets as well as a bunch of sample code (some stuff I write). Anyway, check it out if your interested.

http://support.in tel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/30504.htm That is the dual port adapter that comes in Dell Servers....Has anybody used this before? D

Better to get the story from the horses mouth:
Intel's press release

Also interesting, someone on Pricewatch claims to be selling 800mhz PIII Xeons for only $814, so why bother with a wimpy 700mhz for $1,177+?

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I for one had to go through a twenty page NDA debriefing

Oh, the mighty Steve has finally blessed us with dual PowerPC system. BIG F*CKING DEAL! I remember when we could get QUAD PowerPC systems and they didn't cost arm and a leg (well perhaps only an arm).
Yes, I'm pissed, the PowerPC was the only hope of giving the pathetic x86 some competition, but noo, little Steve had to have the PowerMacs all to himself...
Ugh, I need my caffine...
J.

http://develo per.intel.com/design/strong/quicklist/eval-plat/sa -110.htm

This is an ARM chip on a PCI card. You can also get it with a little backplane and build your own linux ARM box. Fun fun.

I need more me's, or more time in the day. So many fun things to hack, so little time.

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Hmm... Maybe I didn't look closely enough, but all I see are programming manuals and overviews of the chip's architecture. This is much less information than they released for past chips. I wouldn't trump it up as "opening their hardware" unless they did something totally uneard of like posting its complete ASIC design.

The 'Katmai' 600MHz chip uses 37 watts. The 'Coppermine' 800MHz chip uses only 26 watts. (Okay, so it's more like 2 to 1 than 2.5 to 1...) You can find this information at support.intel.com. Also, the link mentioned in another response shows the wattages of many x86 compatible processors.

Or didn't you wonder why you need an 'Athlon-certified' power supply?

yup, it's pretty nifty, and can be found right here.

The CPTWG (Copy Protection Technical Working Group) is pushing very hard to have copy protection measures incorporated into IEEE 1394 (FireWire) devices. The idea is to prevent "unauthorized" use of digital content, no matter where you tap into the chain.

Intel has put forward a proposal for incorporating copy protection measures into IEEE 1394. There's also an organization pushing Digital Transmission Content Protection which, if Hollywood gets its way, will be incorporated into your new digital televisions by the time NTSC signals go dark in 2006.

Anyone wanna help me try to stop this garbage?

Schwab

It also mentions that the Display is the intel i810 - Having recently helped set one of theseup with Linux (It was under Mandrake 7.0 on an HP Pavillion 6630) - I can attest to the fact that it is indeed a pain in the ass to do. Intel, to their credit, does document it fairly thoroughly and provide an X server for it (http://support.int el.com/support/graphics/intel810/release_notes_1.h tm).