The Gigahertz Race is Back On

An anonymous reader writes "When CPU manufacturers ran up against the power wall in their designs, they announced that 'the Gigahertz race is over; future products will run at slower clock speeds and gain performance through the use of multiple cores and other techniques that won't improve single-threaded application performance.' Well, it seems that the gigahertz race is back on — a CNET story talks about how AMD has boosted the speed of their new Opterons to 3GHz. Of course, the new chips also consume better than 20% more power than their last batch. 'The 2222 SE, for dual-processor systems, costs $873 in quantities of 1,000, according to the Web site, and the 8222 SE, for systems with four or eight processors costs $2,149 for quantities of 1,000. For comparison, the 2.8GHz 2220 SE and 8220 SE cost $698 and $1,514 in that quantity. AMD spokesman Phil Hughes confirmed that the company has begun shipping the new chips. The company will officially launch the products Monday, he said.'"

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[JackMeyhoff]

Explain to me why my 6000 USD mobile workstation is sucking 200 watts when I expect BETTER DESIGN that uses less power, especially when we are trying to REDUCE power usage. I can tell you why, BAD DESIGNERS that are all high on their laurals saying its not a blue collar job and its a "skilled job", well go show me some skill then, give me powerful mobile workstations that use LESS POWER or talk to the hand.