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Intel Reveals Next-Gen CPUs
EconolineCrush writes "Intel has revealed its next generation CPU architecture at the Intel Developer Forum. The new architecture will be shared by 'Conroe' desktop, 'Merom' mobile, and 'Woodcrest' server processors, all of which were demoed by Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Rather than chasing clock speeds, Intel is focusing on lowering power consumption with its new architecture. Otellini claimed that Conroe will offer five times the performance per watt of the company's current desktop chips. He also ran the entire keynote presentation on a Merom laptop, and demoed Conroe on a system running Linux."
Awesome. Now I'll be able to run 4 times as many CPUs with my 1000w PSU.
A better battery doesn't get any more polygon's out in Quake 4.
That is the most important question. I'd hate to buy one of these also rans and find out that it is no where near as powerful as the industry leader.
We now have batteries powered by urine!
Who hasn't wanted to pee on their new laptop? Marks your territory and provides hours of power!
what else could you want?
Starsucks
Does it run Lin--, err, Mac OS X?
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
where/what was the inspiration for Woodcrest? Well, a crest is like a high point or a "peak," and wood is... Oh dear.
You must be new here, and obviously do not know the rules. Let me help you.
AMD is always good, no matter what they do.
Intel is always bad, no matter what they do.
Apple is always good, no matter what they do.
Microsoft is always bad, no matter what they do.
Steve Jobs is always right and the sun shines out his rectum, even when he's wrong.
Bill Gates is wrong and is the spawn of the Devil, even when he's right.
These rules apply even in cases where one entity does something, and then the other entity does the exact same thing two weeks later.
And finally, my reply and any like it will always be moded -1 'troll' because the majority of readers here do not want to admit they are this biased.
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
While I admit there's been times I WANTED to get back at my laptop for being so slow, the smell factor stopped me. Okay that and the cost, not to mention that I could get zapped in a very private place!
Urea don't small like roses, just sniff my cat box after the cat's used it. Yurk! (Actually, just be in the room after he goes. Bleah!)
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But if Intel stops going for higher clockspeeds how am I supposed to know how impressive an AMD 3200+ is? I need my completely reliant rating system intact! I guess the FX chips have already destroyed my ability to rate things simply.
Woodcrest is a street a block over from my parents' house in Huntsville, AL, but I don't think any Intel folks live there.
I believe upoon release it will be 4.6 Ghz.
Regards,
Steve
seem to have all the answers in this thread. All right, how many of you are Intel employees?
In my opinion, Intel and the rest of the big processor vendors are running out of ideas. They can only come up with so many incremental improvements before they bore the market to death. So what comes next?
I suggest that they start working on the biggest problem facing the computer industry today: unreliable software. It's costing us billions of dollars and even human lives. Consider that the basic architecture of the processor has not change in more than 150 years, ever since a guy named Babbage and his girlfriend Ada built their mechanical computer around the "table of instructions". All processor architectures have benn based on and optimized for the algorithm ever since.
A truly innovative architecture would abandon the algorithm and embrace a non-algorithmic, signal-based synchronous software model. It would not only revolutionize the computer industry, it would solve its nastiest problem: software unreliability.
But can we really expect the big guys (Intel, AMD, IBM, etc...) to be truly innovative at this stage of the game? Their approach is evolutionary, not revolutionary and they are doing just fine as it is. They have no great incentive to change. Hopefully, a bright upstart will get the message and make a killing while the behemoths are busy fighting each other for market share. They won't know what hit them until it's too late. The message is simple: There is a solution to the software reliability crisis. The disadvantage is that it will require a radical change in both processor architecture and software construction methodology. The advantage is too good to ignore: 100% software reliability! Guaranteed!
This is the stuff that revolutions and great companies are made of. After a century and a half, I think it's time for a change. He who has an ear (and the venture capital) let him hear!
Careful! That's what will precipitate Skynet and all those nasty T-101 guys!!! ...hey guess what I re-watched over the weekend?
Prefer data and instructions with a high 0/1-bit ratio!
That is interesting. A notebook with the cell processor running off of fuel. Who would have thought of that? Is that what the new PS3 is? Did they design this so that you don't stay in closed room playing games too long?
Stop Global Warming!
Just say no to irreversible processes!
You forgot to mention:
Anyone who says they will be modded as a Troll will be modded +5
'Conroe', 'Merom', 'Woodcrest'?
Alright, where are He-man, She-ra and Skeletor?
I welcome cooler CPU and hard drives, not only does it help extend the lifespan but also helps keep my sperm count up!
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
So where is Pentium located? Alaska?
But I'd be pretty stoked about it if I could sit outside (think BEACH) all day with a laptop. How sweet would that be?
Pretty friggan unsweet. It'd be lame as hell, all that dust clogging up your fans, wrecking havoc with the drives... not to mention the HEAT -- I mean its beach hot, which is probably too hot for a laptop to be on for long.
The biggest by far problem, however, is reading a LCD in natural light. Computers, and their users, were not meant for use in natural light. You couldn't read a damn thing on your LCD out there.
It would SUCK. Leave your laptop at home if your going to the stupid beach.
--SD
"Computers will never truly be free until the last windows user is strangled with the entrails of the last mac user."
Either it has so much shielding that it is too heavy, or it is nice and light and will make you grow another set of legs (or something else down there...). "
Maybe you could grow a tentacle down there and go on to have a great career in hentai.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Okay...
2. Relatively unlikely to become a flame thrower.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
Anyone know what my Dual 2 GHz G5 is using?
if my temperature monitor is correct, i would guess nuclear fusion.
seriously, folks! 80 degrees celsius and climbing! (2.7 ghz g5)
Those are exactly my specs in a potential girlfriend! ... except number 3, of course.
You left off: BSD is always dying, no matter what.
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Glad you crould jroin us!
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