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Intel Shipped 1 Billionth Computer Chip
murat submitted linkage to a simple little story that proclaims that Intel has recently shipped
it's One Billionth Chip. Quite an impressive accomplishment... it took them 25 years to reach the billions, but they estimate that they will hit 2 billion by only 2007.
any beer to go with that?
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blah blah blah 999999999th chip blah blah blah divide error blah blah blah
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...Unfortunately their count was thrown off a bit during the early Pentium years... They've really only shipped 999,999,999.999239230823 processors
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"But why have billions when we can have.....millions?"
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AMD released it's AMD-1Billionth today, which the company states is actually rated as it's 17,275,000th processor.
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Intel ships its 100th Itanium processor.
By 2007 it should reach the 200 milestone.
Citing Intel's recent announcement that they have shipped over 1 billion CPUs, and the fact that they have not licensed a billion copies of DOS/Windows, Microsoft has launched a piracy investigation. "It's clear that there are CPU's out there running Windows illegally. The numbers simply do not match up." said Microsoft counsel Mike Rebadow. "We've of course accounted for IBM DOS and DR DOS sold in the 80's, as well as OS/2 which licensed Windows, but that still leaves hundreds of millions of CPUs unaccounted for. Piracy is the only way to explain this."
Well the original had 29,000 transistors, and the P4 has about 55 million... so to sum it up... a shitton (thats is a technical term for the number).
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I hear they're planning on releasing a new chip to celebrate this milestone. The chip will be based on the p4 architecture, and will be known as the p4 Type S. It will feature speed increasing kanji stickers, sporty wing, and a custom fan guaranteed to dull your hearing.
All these new features will come at a bit more of a cost but are guaranteed to increase your cpu's power by 50%.
There have actually been 50 billion chips shipped. "Some of these chips, such as the 3.06ghz, are as much as 100 times faster than others, allowing pirates to encode music 100 times as fast. Thus, for our numbers, Intel has shipped over 50 billion chips" said RIAA president Hilary Rosen.
I'm thinking they should go with ;)
"Over 1 billion Server'd"
Sooo..... how soon until they have little golden arches in front with a sign on it that says "Over 1 billion served"?
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That is one hell of a beowulf cluster!
Thanks to that Slot 1 of theirs, I can upgrade to any of the newer processors without changing out my motherboard. Thanks Intel!
How many chips would a chipmunk ship if a chipmunk could ship chips?
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shipped it's One Billionth Chip.
In an unrelated story, Slashdot served up its one billionth page containing a CmdrTaco grammatical error...
Shitton (n.): 1) An ambibously large number, larger than a crapton, but less than a holyfuckton.
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a lot of silicon. Imagine how many implants could be made from them!
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Not surprising. Since
:-)
a) They own more than one fabs
b) They print [cut, etch, whatever] more than one processor per waifer. Its called mass production
Otherwise we'd be buying a P4 2Ghz processor at a bargain 9500$ or so.
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And just imagine all the pollution and garbage that's produced with those billion chips!
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Unless you're in England. Then 1 billion seconds is almost 32000 years.
AMD has shipped its 1,000,000,000+th CPU. An AMD spokesperson told us the number is not to be compared with Intel's shipments. Instead it based on the ratio of pin count of shipped CPUs. A CPU with twice as many pins as an AMD 80386 gets a shipment rating of 2+. With the recent launch of 4-way Opterons, AMD expects to reach 2,000,000,000+ mark next week, the spokesperson added.
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Actually, it only seems that long.
" Unless you're in England. Then 1 billion seconds is almost 32000 years."
Wrong, England changed from 1 billion as a million million to the American standard of a thousand million many years ago.
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