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Intel and AMD's 2005 Plans Revealed
Takemedown writes "There's a good article on CTZ that talks about Intel and AMD's plans. Intel, continuing on their 18-month chipset refresh rate, will introduce their Glenwood and Lakeport chipsets for the Smithfield dual core desktop microprocessor in 2005. The chipsets will support SATA II, Matrix RAID and a higher system bus speed for the new Pentium 4 name holder.
As far as Intel's dual core strategies are concerned, they will most likely bring their dual core additions by the very end of Q2 or Q3 this year, so for those waiting for these next generation chips are better off with a due upgrade. Secondly, if you are hoping for a noticeable performance gain in regular computing tasks are in for a disappointment. Dual core microprocessors are for those who like to do multitasking or work on multithreaded applications. For example, if you are gaming and burning a DVD at the same time, dual core chips will come in handy and will definitely give a smooth computing experience."
I suppose the satisfaction of knowing that my theory that all people are fundamentally lazy, preferring to trick others into doing their own work for them rather then spending the time themselves, is indeed correct.
What really pisses -me- off is that whenever someone asks a question that could be just solved a by doing a Google search, a few people quite rightly tell that person to go use Google. Then, inevitably, there is always some self-righteous prick who chimes in with his "Just re-post the content you found on Google because I too am much too lazy to go use Google but am hiding it by coming off like a self-righteous prick" routine.
bash-3.00$ uname -a
SunOS panda 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
You guys also are forgetting multi-core multi-CPU machines. This is something that I cannot wait for, myself. I really would love to see a dual-core dual-CPU Opteron box. It definitely would decrease the compile times for me, as I perform numerous compile runs (read hundreds) each release, so every little bit of extra oomph I can get helps.
Gee, Captain Obvious, do you think? I would take that information to the New York Times before someone else beats you to it.