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Intel Plans to Overhaul Chip Architecture

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-way-the-old-architecture-is-totally-cool dept.

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "Intel is planning to announce an entirely new chip architecture later this month at the company's developer forum, the Wall Street Journal reports. The company isn't discussing details yet, but it's expected that Paul Otellini will discuss a 'technology foundation designed from scratch to improve energy efficiency and make it easier to add more than two processors.'"

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  1. Quintuple Core! by danielDamage · · Score: 3, Funny

    You remember back in the day when processors had only one core?

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  2. switch? by minus_273 · · Score: 3, Funny

    mac switches to intel
    intel switches to PPC ? :-p

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  3. Crossing my fingers... by mikeophile · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope their new logo isn't as easily confused with a feminine hygine product.

    1. Re:Crossing my fingers... by Kenshin · · Score: 3, Funny

      A HAMMER?

      Ouch, I don't think I want to know what kind of hygene product that is...

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  4. Re:Not a user-perceptable change. by ArsonSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    When Apple said they would switch to intel what they didn't say was that Intel was switching to PPC.

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  5. DRM'd! by __int64 · · Score: 2, Funny
    "The company also is more aggressively building in specialized circuitry for such purposes as improving computer security, some of which also are expected to be part of the new architecture."

    Oh sweet! That sentence was written so balmily I think it has even qualmed my pre DRM large-scale nationwide deployment fears.

  6. Yes but ... by bizitch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will it run Lotus 1-2-3?

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  7. Nothing New by MOBE2001 · · Score: 2, Funny

    All processor architectures are based on the algorithm, a custom started by a guy named Babbage some 150 years ago.

    A really new architecture should abandon the algorithmic model and adopt a non-algorithmic, signal-based synchronous software model. It would revolutionize computing and solve the nastiest problem in the computer industry: software unreliability.

    But we cannot expect a big company like Intel to be truly innovative. Hopefully a bright upstart will get the message and make a killing while the behemoths are busy fighting each other for market share. The won't know what hit them until it's too late.