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Glimpses of the Future from the Intel Developer Forum
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.'"
One thing I am waiting for with wireless is some decent security functionality. What with the farce that is 802.11 and the proliferation of 'secure' data within companies I work with, wireless has become one of the major security threats.
The number of people I have found using RF keyboards/mice on computers in 'secure' areas, and not even believing that these can be snooped (which is quite trivial), then insisting that we have a 802.11 hub for their flashy new laptop, simply because it has that functionality built in.
I would love to see a standard developed for a plugable security model on top of these transports, so a 'suitable' level of protection can be installed for the situation.
- It's an ultra-low-power x86 chip line.
- It's due in 2003.
- It's not based on the P-4 core, but is a fresh design, possibly related to the P6 core. (Boy, that's a bad pair of abbreviations, but you know what I mean.)
- It probably has a completely redesigned instruction decoder; I found some mention of combining instructions into common bundles.
- It's capable of turning off unused portions of the chip to save power.
- It's intended for laptops and blades (of course).
- It's being designed in Israel.
That's a slim set of factoids; anyone have any more? Or any corrections?The higher the radio density, the lower the power (and thus range) you need. For example, Bluetooth has very short range (30 feet), so a large number of Bluetooth devices can operate in a certain area. We can imagine these future devices might use adaptive transmit power to lower their range to the absolute minimum (e.g. those Bluetooth headsets for cell phones could probably work just fine with a range of 4 feet).
In the UK it means only one thing, and that is John Prescott the deputy prime minister (roughly the equivalent of Dick Cheyney). By the admitidly low standard of politicians he is quite a character. He single handedly made the last general election interesting by punching a voter who was stupid enough to throw an egg at him (when choosing your egg target, don't choose one who used to earn spare cash by bare knuckle boxing!).
I can't decide if the phrase "Prescott PC" would be good for sales or not. I guess it might suggest a machine with a bit of punch!
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.)
Hammer-based CPU's will not be running 32-bit code in an emulation mode. Hammer is basically another 32-bit native x86 architecture, with some additional 64-bit registers and other 64-bit specific items included, which can be used by a programmer if they wish. It WILL run 32-bit quite well, very much unlike the Itanium.