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Intel Announces New Chips, Chipsets
Saud Hakim writes "Intel showed a prototype of an IEEE 802.11a wireless LAN transceiver created by using a 90-nm CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) fabrication. The chip can switch between different networks and frequencies; it is capable of tuning and tweaking itself. It is also capable of detecting what kinds of wireless networks are available nearby and shifting to the frequency that is most appropriate." Reader serox sends more: "Intel has two big news releases today and IntelFanboy has it covered. First up is the new Xeon processors have been released with a list of improvements. Second, Intel has revealed two significant milestones in the development of extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography that will help lead to developing the next generation chip technology."
It's new Intel server platforms based on the Xeon that have been release; not new Xeons.
That being said, this really bulks up the low-intermediate end of the Intel enterprise offering.
Not really. 802.11a operates in the 5 GHz band, and can thus coexist with 802.11b without suffering degradation, unlike 802.11g which does degrade when .11b devices are present -- if nothing else because the .11b devices hog the channel for 5 times as long.
Thus, heavy-use WLANs like corporate installations are frequently A+G, and a lot of current wlan client chips are also A+G.
In the current wlan market, 802.11a is the premium solution; unfortunately both in terms of cost and performance.
No, it's not. EM64T, or IA32e (make up your mind, guys) is Intel's clone of AMD64/x86-64.
You're thinking of PAE.
why would somebody link to a forum reposting the official press release? (well ok I think I know)
New Server Platforms
EUV Lithography
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According to the article, they can use less power, due to the feature shrinkage.
I won't pretend to understand the relationship of power and leakage wrt feature size, though.
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It's worth noting that 802.11a has a significantly shorter theoretical maximum range when compared to the 2.4GHz (802.11b/g) solutions.
There is a difference between "insightful" and "inciteful" other than spelling.
Why not use this adaptive frequency model in CPUs.
They do. It's called SpeedStep or LongRun.
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except that AMD64 has 40 bit memory addressing while the EM64T shite has 36bit memory addressing. Read the stuff Redhat had to do to make it work with their kernel. Intel kludged this one.
I read somewhere today that Intel engineers have developed a new compound to use for the insulating layer on the gates, to replace SiO2
Yeah, it's called "high-K". Here is a link.
> But the leakage current problems have been increasing with __process shrinks__ [my emphasis] (not just at Intel, but also at IBM and AMD).
Not really true. Leakage current doesn't increase significantly with just a process shrink; rather, it tends to be associated with process shrinks because one of the main reasons for a process shrink is to rev the clock rate up. In this case there is little reason to rev the clock rate on an 802.11a/b/g chip that is processing signals at pre-defined frequencies. In other words, they have held all other things equal and shrunk the die; leakage current should not dramatically increase.
You'll also notice that the article mentioned power savings as a result of the shrink: so the answer was already in the article. If the leakage current and heat were going to be worse than Prescott they would only have touted the cost savings of the smaller die, not the power savings as well.
Harold
No PS2 connections, no serial, no parallel. USB or forget it.