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Intel's Roadmap For the Future

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the taking-aim-at-AMD dept.

A SV reader writes "SharkyExtreme just posted the confidential Intel desktop roadmap for CPUs. Intel is really pushing AMD with a Tulatin at 1.26GHz. and a Pentium4 at 2GHz shipping Q3 of 2001. Also -- Intel is not abandoning RDRAM but they are adding support of DDR memory. The bottom line is that Intel is developing SDR/DDR SDRAM chipsets for future Intel processors."

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  1. Roadmap by Signal+11 · · Score: 3
    Well, if the roadmap is anything like Intel's usual meanderings we'll hear nothing but "Are we there yet, are we there yet?"

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  2. 'xcuse me, highly confidential? I don't think so. by CodeShark · · Score: 3
    The text introducing the link leads one to believe that someone got their hands on an internal company document such as the Halloween documents (someone post the URL, if needed, please) which caused Microsoft so many problems.

    Even if some of the details were supposed to be "highly confidential", the fact that Intel employees were giving information to what is essentially a content website erases that idea somewhat.

    The information may be completely accurate or not, but it is the writer(s) at Sharkey Extreme who have put together the roadmap which we are reading, not Intel.

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  3. And we keep pedaling faster by DunkPonch · · Score: 3

    It's a little embarrasing how easily we get passed by RISC-powered motorcycles, but we can always pedal our little CISC bicycles a little faster.

    Sure, we get hotter and sweatier. Sure, we burn up even more energy. Yes, we know that 13% of all electricty used in the world is for powering computers (according to a recent U.N. summit). And we all know that most of the electricity is being generated through burning fossil fuels.

    Maybe we like 80-day droughts in Texas thanks to global warming.

    None of that matters, though. It's too much work to move to more efficient processor designs. Why scratch our heads over big-endian/little-endian translations when we can just slap on a bigger heat sink and cooling fan? Why give up our flying toaster screen savers?

    Let's stick to our 1970's-architecture processors for now. It was good enough for our pocket calculators, it will be good enough for mapping the human genome. Maybe we'll even find a way to alter our DNA so our skin is UV-resistant and our bodies need less water.

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    1. Re:And we keep pedaling faster by Chalst · · Score: 5
      RISC won the IC design wars. Inside every modern CISC processor beats a RISC heart.

      RISC lost the instruction set wars, however. Once it was realised that you can translate CISC into RISC using a patch of silicon, the advatanges of switching from coding in CISC to coding in RISC sort of evaporated: you *can* have your cake and eat it.

  4. They don't have much choice but to push by Hanzie · · Score: 3

    Now that were going to have some "AMD SMP lovin," even on the cheap Durons, Intel is really going to be feeling a pinch.

    Especially since the new mobo's supporting this are going to be arriving soon.

    I'm putting off the current upgrade until I can get one of these babies.

    Intel, meanwhile, has removed SMP support from the Celerons. Oops, bad timing.

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  5. That name, hmm... by uradu · · Score: 5

    ...is it just me, or does Tulatin sound suspiciously much like Too-Late-in? Just a thought...

  6. AMD to outgun Intel until Q32001? by hattig · · Score: 5
    Intel are only moving their PIII line to a 0.13 micron process in Q3 2001, that is when the 1.26GHz PIII will be released. That is nearly a year away.

    AMD promised a speed step upgrade of the Athlon every 6 weeks - it started with the 1.1GHz Athlon a few weeks ago - the 1.2GHz Athlon should be released by the beginning of October. 1.3GHz in November, and 1.4GHz at the beginning of the new year. The Athlon is the PIII competitor - they have roughly the same amount of zoom in them, both 0.18micron at the moment etc. The Pentium 4, when it is released, will be a hugely expensive processor, trying to compete with Alphas from Compaq and Power3/4 processors from IBM. It is not going to compete for the desktop, corporate or home for at least a year.

    So AMD will be outgunning Intel for another 6 months, possibly 9 months in terms of GHz and overall performance (ignoring the Pentium 4, as it really should figure here, and even so, the overall performance of the Athlon 1.3GHz is likely to be more than the 1.5GHz Pentium 4!)

    Still, good to see Intel going with DDR SDRAM at last, and the move to 0.13micron fabs is great - although 1 taiwanese fab is already there and making stuff. AMD are going 0.15micron, probably using Motorola technology there, as the G4's were 0.15 micron...

  7. Tualatin pushing AMD? by SpinyNorman · · Score: 3

    I assume that was a joke?

    AMD will be at 1.2GHz THIS year, not Q3/2001!

  8. They're really going at it! by Ndog · · Score: 3

    In an unprecedented move today, Intel announced that they would be taking the processor battle to another level, changing there previous policy of one press release a month to one a week. They stated that they will be announcing the release of faster processors weekly, a move that clearly has competitors worried.

    In related news, AMD quickly responded by announcing a new, faster processor press release will go out twice a week, a policy that could be revised as soon as December.


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