Intel's Tualatin P3

DavoKid writes: "Intel rolls out the .13 micron Pentium III processor based on the Tualatin core at 1.2GHz. This chip really shines and overclocks to 1.47GHz. The benchmarks are fairly impressive too! Reviews at: HotHardware, Anandtech, and Tech Report." Also given plenty of attention is Intel's new D815EEA2 motherboard, since that appears to be about the only choice for the new chip. The consensus seems to be that this chip is at least intended to be "the new Celeron," but marketed also as a power-frugal chip to impress server-farms with electrical savings.

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New names for Intel...

[Anonymous Coward]

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my @a = ('Pen', 'Cel', 'Vag', 'Ner', 'Tua', 'Fel');
my @b = ('ti', 'ta', 'uni', 'lat', 'ino', 'tro', 'tra');
my @c = ('um', 'in', 'an', 'on', 'am', 'im', 'io');

print $a[rand($#a)].$b[rand($#b)].$c[rand($#c)]."\n";

Re:New names for Intel...

[Chundra]

Or Vaginoan. Hmm. Greetings Intel executive I am a Vaginoan, I have travelled across the galaxy to bring you this Fellatio.
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Re:New names for Intel...

[Dr. Prakash Kothari]

Where can I get the new Intel Fellatio?

Re:Multi Processor Boxes

[Mr. Quick]

thursday

Re:What would YOU do with 10GHz?

[ikekrull]

Sure, but with a mass-produced hardware encoder you could do the same with a 100Mhz part.

Consider how much slower a general-purpose CPU like the P3 is compared to custom hardware like the NVidia GeForce3 for doing realtime 3D. You probably would neet a 10GHz or better P3 to equal the performance of the GeForce3 at this task.

With the increasing popularity of video-processing on consumer desktops, it would be nice to see hardware manufacturers putting some hardware into their cards to support encoding functionality, as well as just augmenting software decoding.

Realtime MPEG-4 encoding is not out of the question, since realtime MPEG-2 encoding is now a consumer-level proposition - TiVO, cards from hauppage etc..

It would be interesting to see Matrox take back some market share by building a programmable video compression engine onto one of it's upcoming cards.

They have tried this with the 'Rainbow Runner' and it's ilk, but these products were never billed as a 'Complete PVR and DVD-ripping station', which i'm sure would be vastly more attractive to joe average than 'Record and edit your own home videos'

This is not to say that a 10GHz CPU would not be nifty, but rather you could get more done with a set of lower-clocked chips, each optimised for specific functions.

Re:Multi Processor Boxes

[John_Booty]

Re:Multi Processor Boxes (Score:2, Informative)
thursday

best moderation ever.

Re:Uhh...

[Fishstick]

thanks for the chuckle

You forgot "results similar to sugarpill"

Since when does a sugarpill induce vomiting, nausea, headaches in 0.0001% of patients studied?

Makes you wonder about some of these people who sign up for these mediacation studies, eh?

"Now, mr Smith, we are prepared to pay you $50 a week to participate in our estrogen replacement therapy trial. You will be part of the study in which we will secretly replace the hormone pills with a harmless placebo, ok?"

"aw man, I think I'm gonna hurl!"

"excellent"

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Re:Uhh...

[Chundra]

Sounds like some new allergy medication. Ask your doctor if Tualatin is right for you. (Side effects include nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, headaches, dizziness, bloody noses, and chronic rashes. During clinical trials some patients experienced arcs of electricity emanating from their nipples.)
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New PIII hampered by old-tech FPU

[MtViewGuy]

Judging from reading the Anandtech review of the new 1,200 MHz Pentium III CPU, I think the problem is that the CPU--while it is very fast indeed--still sports the older-style FPU unit. The result is that the new CPU compares poorly to the Athlon CPU, which processes three FPU instructions per CPU cycle compared one instruction per CPU cycle on PIII's.

The poor FPU performance is why I don't think there will be much interest in the new CPU, especially since the 1,200 MHz Athlon CPU will substantially out-perform the new PIII CPU with any application that is FPU-intensive such as CAD and illustration programs.

Re:Uhh...

[tbone1]

Well, it's spelled "Tualatin" but it's pronounced "Throatwarbler Mangrove".

Core chips.

[Dwain_Snyders]

Intel's announcement is a bit misleading, while this chip is certainly nothing to sneeze at (looking comparitively at their other offerings) in the power-saving department, it lacks pure power due to the new core.

At AMD, the latest generation of chips are currently being designed with flow-through core transistors, so it'll really be more like a "smart capacitor" than a integrated circuit, like most CPUs. I have been tasked with writing the VLIW compiler for the new chips, and I can tell you that they really do fly, and use less power than teh traditional Athlon/Duron series, while retaining the power and in fact doing a lot of optimisation thanks to the new VLIW instructions that are being ingrained into the core.

All I can say is, folks, look out for this one. It will be hot. (but not because of excessive power consumption :))

Dwain Snyders

Research and Development, AMD

Re:so small!

[hoggoth]

>i feel outdated that my chip is .18 micron.
Don't feel bad... my "chip" is only 4"
Oh God... you're all talking about microprocessors... I thought you were talking about... I'm so embarrassed...