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

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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...