Analyst Doubts Intel's Dual-Core Demo

bakeacake writes "At Xbitlabs they have a article on the possibility that Intel's Dual core Preview at the IDF was not real. Would Intel sink this low? "An analyst expressed doubts about demonstration of a 'real' dual-core microprocessor during an Intel's recent demonstration at Intel Developer Forum Fall 2004 in San Francisco, California. Insight's Nathan Brookwood believes that Intel was most likely to showcase a dual-processor system instead of a dual-core processor-based system during the show.""

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Intel always has rocking tech in their R&D dep

[garcia]

"The least likely scenario is that the demo used the first silicon samples of the dual-core product planned for release next year. Intel did demo the first silicon for its dual-core Itanium, and AMD had just demonstrated the first silicon for its Opteron processor the week prior to IDF. We believe that if Intel actually had achieved this milestone, it would have trumpeted the news far more loudly and widely; their awesome PR machine would have made sure everyone on the planet was aware of this accomplishment. So we discount this theory completely," Nathan Brookwood writes.

Intel's R&D department routinely has processors way more advanced than its current offerings running at near production stability so I am confused as to why Mr. Brookwood believes something different. Intel rarely trumpets any news "loudly". They are much more likely to wait until they are confident that they can release the product on time (unlike MSFT which likes to do exactly the opposite).

Mr. Brookwood should be moderated -1 Troll. He's likely being paid off by another chip manufacturer to "trumpet this news loudly" and keep the public's attention away from other people's lack of success in the same arena.

Or maybe it was a dual core

[Jailbrekr]

When releasing "cutting edge" technology, sometimes they have to cut corners. What may have been a dual core processor could possibly be nothing more than an overglorified dual processor system in a single chip. Any advantages of a dual core chip (shared cache, faster interprocessor communications) would have been negated by the fact that they had to rely on older, proven technology to hobble together that dual core chip.

Right..

[Anonymous Coward]

Some random idiot questions something, and it's news? By the way, "analyst" _is_ synonymous with "random idiot".

The guy has no data whatsoever to back his crackpot opinion and just likes to hear himself talk and sound knowledgeable.

How ridiculous. I'm hoping Intel's lawyers send this guy a very pointed letter.

Tin-foil hat?

[Krach42]

What kind of weird conspiracy are these people trying to set up?

WHY would Intel lie about providing a dual-core processor?

WHY would Intel think it better to showcase a dual processor system and call it a dual-core?

WHY does this person think that Intel would be incapable of producing the demo?

Hm... maybe I should RTFA, and have a good laugh.

Harsh

[ackthpt]

Mr. Brookwood should be moderated -1 Troll. He's likely being paid off by another chip manufacturer to "trumpet this news loudly" and keep the public's attention away from other people's lack of success in the same arena.

That's a bit harsh. Yes, Intel is going to have stuff in R&D that would make your eyes pop and have you salivating and the thought of being posessed of such technology (a friend, back in 1980, was working on CPUs for the DoD clocked at 100 MHz, while we dinked around with sub 10 MHz stuff) but you would probably find it in such a state that it couldn't be housed in a standard cabinet or the motherboard is fairly jury-rigged to support it, and that says nothing about actually having a compiled O/S to run on the thing and take full advantage of it.