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The Year 2004 in Microprocessors

Posted by michael on from the happy-new-year dept.

DeanMan writes "From spintronics to clockless CPUs, 2004 was a year of process and research in the microprocessor industry. As a way to transition into the new year, this article offers a month-by-month look at the highlights of the 2004 microprocessor timeline."

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  1. Disappointing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I can't believe you'd post this story and the year isn't even out yet.

  2. Re:Clockless CPUs by tloh · · Score: 4, Funny

    It implements the refinement of a 10 year old technology invented in Belgium.

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  3. Summary by af_robot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quick summary for slashdot's readers:
    1.AMD rocks (generally good, til their CPU prices are lower Intel's and we can overclock cheap Athlons to save some $$$)

    2. Intel sucks (Pentium IV = really bad, PentiumM = good but pricy, but we still hate intel today, because they are evil)

    3. IBM rocks (good boys, cause they support Linux and can beat SCO's ass)

    4. There are some companies in a world but we don't give a shit until Linux can run on their processors.

  4. Advantages of clockless CPU by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny

    The space savings in the clockless CPUs is worth it, plus you don't have to keep winding them up all the time.

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  5. Wish they had these 5 years ago. by k4_pacific · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just think how much trouble a clockless CPU would have saved leading up to Y2K.

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    1. Re:Wish they had these 5 years ago. by forceflow2 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, it probably would have kept those thousands of planes from falling from the skies and our toasters from rebelling.

    2. Re:Wish they had these 5 years ago. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      hahaha. Vintage 2004 humor...

  6. Re:Clockless CPUs by iamnotacrook · · Score: 2, Funny
    The very first CPUs were designed without a clock. However the introduction of a clock made motherboard design far simpler, at the expense of flexibility on the chip itself. Now that technology has progressed forward as much as it has, the original clock-less type cpu design is more viable.

    I for once am glad to be rid of our GHz-overlords.

  7. Re:They forgot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Actually it is 2005 in Europe and I we already have faster computers than yours. And Linux is on every desktop too! Take this USA...

  8. Re:They forgot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You'll all not be laughing come 2006 when we're all playing Duke Nukem Forever on our Linux desktops we bought from Dell!