Ars Dissects POWER5, UltraSparc IV, and Efficeon

Burton Max writes "There's an interesting article here at Ars about the POWER5, UltraSparc IV, and Efficeon CPUs. It's a self-styled "overview of three specific upcoming processors: IBM's POWER5, Sun's UltraSparc IV, and Transmeta's Efficeon. " I found the insights as to Efficeon (successor to Crusoe) to be particularly good (although it paints a sad picture of Transmeta, methinks)."

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brain fart while reading the article

[zontroll]

I had a brain fart for a second while reading the article:

"This is why the advances that have the most striking impact on the nature and function of the computer are the ones that move data closer to the functional units. A list of such advances might look something like: DRAM, PCI, on-die caches, DDR signaling, and even the Internet"

For a second there, I thought that the list of advances started with DRM, not DRAM, and I almost had a heart attack.

Guess what???

[crgrace]

I actually read the article!!!!!

All my questions were answered so I have nothing to say.

Re:as does using the word "hater"

[Hannibal_Ars]

How do you know I'm not black?