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Intel Scraps Plan For 4 Ghz P4 Chip
bizpile writes "It was reported earlier that Intel would be delaying the release of their 4Ghz Pentium 4 chips, but it now appears that they will be cancelling them altogether. The announcement came Thursday and Intel says they are going to rely on approaches besides faster clock speed to improve the performance of chips. Engineers are working to add additional cores to a single chip and improving the efficiency in how the chips interact with the rest of the system. Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said, "Those are the sort of things where you get more capability out of a processor by designing specific silicon solutions as opposed to just keep turning the clock faster." In the meantime, Intel is planning on releasing a 3.8 Ghz chip with 2mb of cache."
32bit is sooooo 1998
But what about Moore's law? Is nothing sacred?
Sometimes less is Moore.
From the link:
"Processor numbers will be categorized in 3-digit numerical sequences such as 7xx, 5xx, or 3xx."
I'll bet dollars to donuts that the ad guy who came up with the new naming system owns a BMW.
-B
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"I'll bet dollars to donuts that the ad guy who came up with the new naming system owns a BMW."
Actually I think is a silver Carerra (may be mistaken as I don't work in the processor group)
>It just kills ppl when they see my Pentium Pro box keeping up
Do they die of laughter?
Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said, "Those are the sort of things where you get more capability out of a processor by designing specific silicon solutions as opposed to just keep turning the clock faster." In the meantime, Intel is planning on releasing a 3.8 Ghz chip with 2mb of cache."
So to sum up:
1) We've realized it's dumb to just keep increasing the clock speed.
2) Buy our new Pentium 4! It's going to have a higher clock speed!
~Philly
"Processor numbers will be categorized in 3-digit numerical sequences such as 7xx, 5xx, or 3xx."
Unfortunately the model number will be the same as the price in dollars...
Am I the only one who's dissapointed with the announcement of multi-core chips? Certainly, they'll net performance gains in the short-term, but the process has to cieling at some point. And then what? The companies are only doing this to keep down the amount of money they have to spend on researching new process technologies (such as carbon) while keeping their share prices high. Why are we praising them for it?
"Intel Scraps Plan For 4 Ghz P4 Chip"
Duh...they're still going to 4ghz, but it'll be a pentium FIVE! Because they havnt upped the number in a year or two...
Oooh! I want to be first in line for a 386, a 387, and a 586!!! -------- Amiga will live forever.
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Only 2 millibytes of it. People writing articles here at /. should know how Mega is spelled.
Intel realized their 4Ghz chip needed more sheilding and cooling then a nuclear reactor.