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Intel "East Fork" Technology Migration
Hack Jandy writes "When Intel's Centrino platform first unveiled, industry experts were surprised to see such great performance of the Pentium M, based off Intel's P6 (Pentium III) architecture. According to sources in the industry, Intel has officially adopted the approach to migrating Pentium M to the desktop (hence, "East Fork") to offset some of its Pentium 4 processor sales. Cheaper, slower, cooler, but higher performing processors are on the way to an Intel desktop near you!"
"So perhaps this Pentium 4 architecture with its ridiculously deep pipeline wasn't such a great idea after all?"
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
Intel employee: "Shall I try migrating Pentium M to the desktop?"
Intel boss: "Fork off!"
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slower, cooler, but higher performing processors
.Slower, higher performance. Only from Intel.
Take off every sig. For great justice.
Type Intel(Rating CPU_Rating, Type CPU_Type):
//What!!! our CPUs are ALWAYS good
// Wait ages to BUILD it
CPU_Rating == GOOD
IF (CPU_Rating == GOOD && CPU_Type = P4)
{
CPU_Type = P4HT
WAIT ages
}
IF (CPU_Rating == GOOD && CPU_Type = P4HT)
{
CPU_Type = P4EE
WAIT ages
}
IF (CPU_Rating == AMD_ARE_KICKING_OUR_ASSES && CPU_Type = P4EE)
{
CPU_Type = PentiumM
WAIT ages
}
RETURN CPU_Type
I got a notebook machine with a desktop processor, and now I can get a desktop machine with a notebook procsesor. Superkeen.
Imagine AMD's speed with AMD's architectural benefits. Wait....
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
Try harder.
As chief information minister for Intel Corporation, let me assure you we will destroy the AMD infidels! The Opteron is like a snake which is going to be cut into pieces. The force that was in the airport.. this force is destroyed. Let the AMD bastards bask in their illusion, we have given them a sour taste. We have them surrounded.
Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I went through an upgrade about 2 months ago. Looked around to see whether I could get a Pentium-M motherboard and CPU (in Perth, Western Australia - hah.)
I liked the idea of throttling the CPU back when it wasn't busy. We get daytime temps of 100+ degrees (40 deg centigrade) fairly regularly in summer, keeping a hot CPU cool isn't fun.
Before I wasted too much time looking, I read about the Athlon64 3400+ and that was that. Mind you, cool 'n' quiet locked up hard on my Gigabyte K8NSNXP bios revisions F5 and F6. (Whether I was running Win Xp or Linux) Rev. F7 came out about 3 weeks after I got the board, and it's been rock solid at 1ghz to 2.4 ghz ever s--
Hal Spacejock: Science Fiction with Nuts
I read this as "more heat per acre than most smelters". This piqued my curiousity.
A Pentium 4 seems to run around 217 mm^2 and produce about 100W of heat. This is quickly converted to almost exactly 2.5 million horsepower/acre. Leaving aside the livestock management problems of fitting 2.5 million horses into your 1 acre field, we now turn to a smelter, running, according to ask Jeeves at about 1400K. Radiated heat output per unit area is sigma*T^4 for a black body, less for a real material (where sigma is the Stefan Boltzman contstant), although there will also be quite a bit of convection and so on, which we ignore because it's too hard.
So, thanks to the magic of the units program, we find that the Smelter puts out about 1.18 million hp/acre, or about half the power output of the PIV.
So parent was right, P4s really do put out more heat per area (or acre) than most smelters!