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Intel Drops Tejas, Xeon To Focus On Dual-Core Chips
PunkerTFC writes "Reuters has an article about Intel dropping the fourth-generation P4 chip (codenamed "Tejas") and the Xeon server processor. Intel says they want to concentrate on their new 'dual-core' technology for desktop and notebook systems. This is essentially putting two processors on one chip, allowing for a doubling of performance with less energy use. The introduction of this technology was not expected for another year and a half. Rival chip maker AMD says they have the capability to produce dual-core chips and will introduce the technology when they "feel there is a market need.""
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Cowboy Soldier
by Paul Smith
I was a GI back in the early 70's. I drove an armored personnel carrier with the Fifth Armored Division stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. I enjoyed my work-- the boxy but agile M-113 was fun to drive, and I looked forward to our frequent maneuvers, when I got the chance to steer my noisy, clanking little track through the woods and across the fields of our training grounds in Grafenwohr. But I also made good use of my free time.
Frankfurt was a very cruisy town -- with any number of public restrooms and parks and special hiding places where men came to play. I spent many of my free hours exploring them. I was a good looking, well built guy at the time, and was quite popular at one particular 'klo,' or toilet, in a secluded corner of the city. I spent many hours there servicing the older German men, sometimes sucking one while another fucked me. I can still remember the dampness of the old stone cavern and the smell of the crotches as they humped my face (Germans do not make bathing a priority-- and I love the smell of a working man), and feel the thick, uncut dicks swelling my asshole. Some of them, if they realized I was an American and probably a soldier, pounded my hole even harder. Probably considering my butt retribution for World War Two. But I loved it-- more than once I spent the greater part of the night there and returned to base just in time to put on my uniform and make formation-- tired, with a sore throat, and cum dribbling out my ass. But a smile on my face.
One day I noticed on the company bulletin board a posting asking for anyone with musical, theatrical or rodeo ability to audition for the annual German American Volksfest in Berlin. The Volksfest was created along the lines of a county fair, with rides, food, games and German and American entertainment. The idea, of course, was to promote friendship between the Germans and the American GI's occupying their country. The theme this year was the Wild West, and the US Army had made arrangements to bring a real rodeo to Berlin. Most of the cowboys were professionals from the states, but GI's who had rodeo experience were invited to take part, either as contestants or to help handle the livestock. I'd rodeo'd as a high schooler in Oklahoma, and I won a spot as a wrangler. I dug out my boots, jeans and my old Stetson, and I was soon on a train to Berlin. For the next four weeks, instead of driving an M-113 armored personnel carrier, I was a cowboy again.
Berlin was a glorious mixture of the old and the new. The center of the city had been flattened during the war, and most of the buildings were less than 25 years old. Still, walls, castles and monuments dating back hundreds of years were rebuilt, and in places the city still carried the ambiance of the middle ages. The fairgrounds were located near the Stadmitte, or center of the city, but the musical performers and cowboys were housed in an old mansion on the Wannsee, a lovely lake outside of town, filled with chilly, sky-blue water. The place had been a favorite gathering spot for the Nazi elite during World War II, and we imagined what Hitler and Goering and Himmler would think if they knew that the same resort to which they brought their wives and mistresses for formal events and sleep-overs was now housing US troops.
My job for the next four weeks was to spend a couple of hours a day working around a large rodeo arena set upon the fairgrounds-- moving bulls and wild horses from holding pens at the far end of the arena to holding pens at the top end-- where they could be kept until they were moved one at a time into tight chutes where cowboys could climb gingerly onto their backs, grip a length of rope wrapped around the beast's chests, and be released bucking wildly into the arena.
The rodeos began at seven in the evening, with matinees on Saturday. The Germans loved the rough and tumble atmosphere-- oohing and aahing as the cowboys struggled to ride dangerous one-ton brahma bulls for eight seconds, or rode horses at full
I've got your market need RIGHT HERE!!
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not an fp
The other aspect that few people are discussing is the cost to build the chip and the profitability.
The overall trend for desktop computers is "fast enough" and "cheaper" -- In a year or two, you could be looking at $250 Dell machines. Obviously in such a situation, the volume CPU has got to be cheap to build and not require a huge power supply and tons of cooling.
It's ironic that just as AMD has gone for the high-end with their big, complex, and presumably expensive Athlon-64 chips, Intel has jumped on the lowend with the Pentium-M. AMD could win the dicksize war, but Intel might have out-maneuvered them again.
Another possibility is that Intel is trying to kneecap the Pentium in order open up some marketspace for the Itanium in high-end desktops and low-end servers.
Whenever I hear the word 'Innovation', I reach for my pistol.
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Sorry, I'll try to sound more like an AMD Fanboy: AMD IS TEH BEST I SAVED $38 AND GOT THE BIGGORZ FPS LOL. Better?
In fact, they're doing a great thing by pushing new technology, guaranteeing that in a year 64-bit chips will appear at the low-cost, low-end of the market.
I think you are confusing how expensive it is to make the chips versus how expensive it is to buy the chips. Assumption: Intel can make Pentiums cheaper than AMD can make K8s. The P-M is even cheaper to make than the P4. Intel can also demand a much higher profit margin.
If Intel drive the cost of PCs down a couple hundred bucks, AMD will be marooned in the high end workstation market, or be forced to sell at a loss (which they've done before). It would be interesting to see AMD as the high end vendor, but Intel might make the big profits out of the deal.
Whenever I hear the word 'Innovation', I reach for my pistol.
Look man, it's just a theory to explain the day's events. I honestly have no idea how I enraged the AMD Hitler Jugend. I'm basically arguing that AMD is going to own the high end. Is implying that Intel, the worlds largest and most powerful semi firm, is not just going to swirl down the toilet really so controversial to you guys? I guess so, as I'm a trolling astroturfer.
Anyway, read the other post. Two P-Ms are smaller than a single A64. Combine that with Intel's manufacturing superiority and draw your own conclusions.
Whenever I hear the word 'Innovation', I reach for my pistol.