Glimpses of the Future from the Intel Developer Forum

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday March 2, 2002 @10:33AM from the fill-your-hard-drive-in-10-seconds dept.

km790816 writes: "Lots of cool stuff on CNet about the Intel Developer Forum, including the next version of the P4, followed by 3GIO on the desktop (1st version 0.5 gigabytes per second of data-transfer capacity but bumps up to 1, 2, 4 and 8 gigabytes per second with the use of more wires.), and Intel's work to embed wireless in silicon. Quote from the CTO: 'We could get it to the point where radios are built into every product we make, giving every device seamless, roaming connectivity. You will see orders of magnitude of cost (decreases) through integration into silicon.'"

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Re:AMD by Wesley+Felter · 2002-03-02 11:41 · Score: 4, Insightful

Of course the new AMD chip ClawHammer, will be able to support current x86 instructions, but it won't really help you much to run it that way.

Sure it will. When the fastest Pentium 4 is 3GHz, the fastest Athlon is "2600+", and the fastest ClawHammer is "3400+", people will happily buy the ClawHammer and run Windows XP in 32-bit mode.

(Those numbers are made up; I'm too lazy to check the latest leaked roadmaps.)