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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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but will it run OS X?
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Many dothans died to bring you this information...
"that Intel plans to launch sometime in the future"
This just in: AMD has plans to launch their dual core desktop chip sometime in the past, thus beating Intel to the punch yet again.
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best 2 out of 3?
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And if you all thought you had seen the end of the cow fwds, here is a
revelation- another one. The last line rings so true...
INFOSYSism
You have a thousand poor cows. You put them on a nice campus, and send them one at a time to the US for milking.
WIPROism
GE has a cow. You take 49% of the milk.
DELLism
Intel has a Goat. Samsung has a Camel. Buy milk from both and sell it as Cow's milk.
IBMism
You have old stubborn cows. You sell them as pet dogs to unsuspecting small businessmen.
MICROSOFTism
You have a cow. Force the world to buy milk from you. Spend a million dollars to feed poorer cows.
SUNism
You have a bull. It doesn't give milk. You hate Microsoft.
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- 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.Communication efficiency and information sharing between the two cores.
On AMD Dual Cores, there is a specific bus for communication between cores and with the memory module, while in Intel types they have to use the main bus.
So intel choice for Netburst dual core lowers the total efficiency (since the cores have to share with the rest of the system, situation akin to regular dual processors) while AMD dual cores have a special bus which is even faster than the regular main bus, lowering latency and increasing communication capacities between the cores, on top of making them compatible with regular mobos.
But one has to remember that the choice Intel made for Netburst's dual core was more than likely done in a hurry, to release DC faster than AMD.
They'll probably design a much more specific processor for their Dothan dual cores.
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
...just in time for the Apple switch to Intel products?
There is something curious in the Apple deal and it is big.
Apple emphasized that they believed Intel's processor roadmap to be more impressive than any alternative. Now, Intel's current chips use boat loads of power because they haven't entered into a silicon-on-insulator deal with IBM, who owns the patent. AMD uses silicon-on-insulator to get their power consumption numbers wayy down relative to Intel's numbers.
Without getting into the details on why Intel doesn't have silicon-on-insulator (IBM wants to "trade" instead of license...), one would think that AMD would have been a *much* better choice for Apple. But Apple's emphasis on the future processors leads me to believe that Intel has something *big* up their sleeve. Probably something to compete with the Cell processor, but on a much broader scale (i.e. - not focused so much on gaming performance).
I know that Intel have been developing Ovonyx memory technology for some time now (since 2000). It is interesting to note that in the process of developing the memory, they found that it has nonbinary processing capabilities.
Is Intel going to drop a bomb?
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The power hungry shit processor is the regular Pentium using the Netburst architecture, high clock rates, low efficiency per cycle, fucking radiator, the dothan on the other hand is another story, much closer to AMD's approach: lower clock rates (and upper limit of the architecture) but better efficiency per cycle and MUCH LESS power hungry (while latest PIV crank out above 130W peak out of the box, dothan are rated under 27W)
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
Well, as an Apple user let me say this Intel dual core thing, it looks, ah, mighty good. Go.... Intel? Yes. Go Intel!
Man this is going to be a rough transition.
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"...secretly prepping a surprise for the rest of the industry"
uh, hate to burst your bubble, but I got this nagging suspicion that somebody from AMD reads slashdot.
"What does slashdotting mean?"
"You've never heard of slashdot?"
"I know it makes websites not work."
Tom's Hardware has some interesting benchmarks with a Dothan in a desktop system with a halfway decent memory system.
- 21.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050525/pentium4
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.