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Intel Demos Williamette at 1.5GHz

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the faster-and-more-please dept.

|0|4 writes, "There's a CNET article about Intel's demo of a Williamette processor running at 1.5GHz. " Mentions the 1ghz P3s and other odds and ends. As always with Intel, 'Demands exceed expectations' with their new chips, so it'll be awhile before they cost less than a compact car.

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  1. A Much Better Article On Willamette... by Stickerboy · · Score: 5
    ...can be found at AnandTech. It covers much more ground than simply the rivalry between AMD and Intel, including some interesting specs about the Willamette architecture:
    • 2x ALU unit (i.e. the integer processor runs at 3.0 GHz)
    • FSB runs at "400 MHz" (similar to the "200 MHz" EV6 bus)
    • the introduction of SSE2
    It also talks more about Intel recognizing the need for DDR SDRAM systems as well.

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