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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.
now I can fry an egg on my LAN card too!
I know I'm going to be modded up on this
But the leakage current problems have been increasing with process shrinks (not just at Intel, but also at IBM and AMD). So they can use even smaller lithography. Great. Will the leakage current and associated heat suck even worse than Prescott?
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Hey, at least they didn't spell it "Xtreme"
Texas Instruments released a new microcontroller based on the revolutionary TTL ( Transistor-Transistor Logic) technology!
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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.
Too bad this type of wireless sytem is not allowed to use in better parts of the world, due to the regulation of radio frequencies. Why not use this adaptive frequency model in CPUs. Let the clockspeed scale with the load on the processor! (I meen scale in 30 MHz increments or something, not step between two speeds like it does now on some CPUs!)
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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.
It's worth noting that 802.11a has a significantly shorter theoretical maximum range when compared to the 2.4GHz (802.11b/g) solutions.
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Well actually Netcraft doesn't confirm it, and Intel may not be dying, but they are going downhill. Does anyone else find these releases underwhelming in light of the recent story about how AMD is pushing ahead while Intel stagnates and delays the releases of 4GHz and 64 bit technology?
Quite simply, Intel took shortcuts to get temporary advantages, and it's coming back to haunt them. The GHz myth is being dispelled and Intel is falling behind in the technologies that really matter. Today's new releases are only stopgap measures-a slight bump in the Xeon and some wlan card that's only going to be a minor player in an area Intel has not been focusing heavily on.
What is Intel focusing on? Branding. Marketing. Getting their stickers on everything and being known to the general public. Intel? "oohh they make computers!" AMD? "Durr is that those missiles in Iraq?" That may be why Intel still has a commanding lead in the processor market, but it will only take them so far. As word of mouth carries AMD to dominance in the hobbyist market, high end buyers will follow the hobbyists' lead. Enterprises will flock to 64 bit technology now that it is maturing on AMD, and still unavailable on Intel. Once AMD has taken control of the high-end market, the midrange will follow along like lemmings. All they know is, they want what the big boys have. And the big boys want AMD to go along with their fancy cars and fast women.
This downward spiral will continue until Intel loses its position as the king of processors and becomes just another hardware company. Nobody will care about what your sticker says is inside, and consumers will win as competition and diversity increase.
A few years out, Netcraft will finally deploy their stunning new technology that can detect your processor type, even through NAT. At that point the truth will become stark and clear, slapping us all in the face with the blinding realization that... Intel IS DYING! You heard it here first, folks: The future belongs to BSD on AMD. Beowulf clusters of BSD on AMD. Wintel is Dying. Wintel is a decrepit artifact of the past, to be fondly remembered in museums along with the 8 inch floppy and "turbo" buttons.
p.s. Netcraft also confirms that the baby-shit BEIGE OF THE END TIMES is spreading like a cancer. Oh god its so horrible, what kind of sadistic bastard is behind this.