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Intel Readying Dual-Core Desktop Chip
sunisha.shah4eva writes "CoolTechZone is reporting that Intel is planning on introducing a dual-core Dothan chip for desktop computers. According to the article, Intel has plans to turn the performance table around with AMD. From the article: 'Finally, it looks like Intel has learned from its mistake and secretly prepping a surprise for the rest of the industry. According to the information we received, Intel is currently working on a desktop, dual-core Dothan microprocessor with SSE3 instruction set that Intel plans to launch sometime in the future. Whether the launch will take place this year or in 2006 is currently unknown.'"
I'll say it again, I LOVE competition. Ever since AMD became a threat to Intel, we've seen outrageous processor wars and benchmarking tribunals. I can buy a P4 3 gig processor for about $150 now.
Most likely, Intel will take that performance throne with their "secret". They have a way of doing that (like HT); but, we'll see something better come from AMD. And so the cycle continues...and we all benefit!
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Argh... you beat me to the punch.
I was "miffed" at first too, but the more I think about the switch the more it makes sense. The largest fraction of hardware sales Apple has (excluding the iPod) is Powerbooks and iBookes. G4 chips haven't been getting better, but Intel's mobile chips have; IBM and Freescale do not have dedicated research going into laptop chips whereas Intel does. It only makes sense to switch with this line of thinking.
Hopefully we'll see dual core Powerbooks soon.
- Apple switched to Intel for the explicit purpose of benefitting from advances like this
- Apple will most likely be using a slightly different architechture than wintel(mobo, bios, firmware, etc), so not every hot new Intel chip will make it into an Apple system.
- Apple will still be offering a limited selection of systems, so they will have to pick and choose what makes it into thier product line
The first systems are more than a year away (not counting the dev system) so everybody take a deep breath.Because of intelligence-insulting comments fromthe PC peanut gallery, we've all become trained to want nothign to do with your crowd. Make sense now?
You'll be the first to bitch when you can't run OS X on any x86 machine you want, too.
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The parent poster was right. 'MAC' is an acronym for, among other things, "Media Access Control" or "Message Authentication Code". 'Mac' is an abbreviation for Macintosh, a brand of computers made by Apple Computer Inc.
Intel has one very important thing that AMD doesn't have -- excess production capacity.
it does not wisky tulip which bathub you tomato because flour is deaf.
While I'm sure there are hundreds of technologies Intel could possibly use to get a lead, they don't need to. Intel is refactoring for the Pentium M to take over the general computing market, the Xeon line to inheirit the Pentium 4 and all of its mess (hey, it's not too bad if you're gonna run it in an environmentally controlled room eh?), and the Itanium line is still continuing for the extreme high end (how the fuck??) and is soon to see its third iteration.
Besides, I'm sure Intel has a great memory for trying rash proceedures. I'm sure the Pentium M was long on the table before they greenlighted the Pentium 4; it was the next logical progression of the P6 family tree. The Pentium 4 was probably someone's pet project used to drive the industry to a frenzy, feeding off of increased clock cycles. And it worked.
Now that IPC is important again, Intel's baby P6 has grown up to a working man.
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." G.W.Bush
.CAB files are compressed. The files installed from them are uncompressed, for performance. There's no way MS is distributing source code in their installer CDs, or it would have been flying around the warez nets for years.
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make install -not war
I'm guessing you didn't even read my post?
I'm gonna say this for one, last, time. The Pentium-M is the Next Logical Evolution in the P6 archetectural line. This iteration brought micro-op fusion (more RISCy behavior), more cache room, smaller chips (reduced size, which in turn reduced the power demands), and a faster bus speed. For all purposes. With better versions and designs of SpeedStep, Intel *designed* it to bring the mobile revoltion to the forefront.
The only problem is, their savior for the Server machine (Itanium), failed to catch on. So they regeared their systems, and we have the hideous P4 we all hate. A few years later, the Pentium M is now perfectly able to take over the role of desktop processor, and all is happy.
Go back and read my post again if you're still confused.
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." G.W.Bush
And if you actually looked at the performance for those chips you'd see that the pricing for the dual cores actually favors AMD on a performance basis. The difference is that Intel released their "dual core" chips for the low end, while AMD only released them for their high end chips.
Also you're not comparing the same type of chip. Opteron is AMD's SERVER chipset, which are always more expensive than desktop chipsets.