Torng was named Intel's first Intel Academic Research Fellow. Not a big deal really. Cept maybe Intel has some back-door deals cooking or cooked with this patent.
This was patented in 1995...but the patent appears to cover every x86 CPU on the market.
The _Abstract is as follows:
"An instruction issuing mechanism for boosting throughput of processors with multiple functional units. A Dispatch Stack (DS) and a Precedence Count Memory (PCM) are employed which allow multiple instructions to be issued per machine cycle. Additionally, instructions do no have to be issued according to their order in the instruction stream, so that non-sequential instruction issuance occurs. In this system, multiple instruction issuance and non-sequential instruction issuance policies enhance the throughput of processors with multiple functional units."
Sounds like someone is trying to stave off future patent disputes...the like of which we have seen between Centaur/IDT and VIA...
I just hope that the 14 students from NCU are from wealthy families, since having vast amounts of NT Dollars carries considerable clout in Taiwan. I cannot stress this enough...money will get you out of damn near any jam that you get into on that island. Bribery is done openly and is a widely accepted means to doing business, whether legal or illicit.
BUT, this strikes me as very odd, since they are going after students, a group of society that generally have few nickels of their very own, and whom are there to learn and better themselves and the economic condition of their country.
It would be FAR more effective to go after the innumerable legion of street thugs whom do nothing more than steal from any available coffer than actually be a viable part of society.
It would seem the thugs are cloaking themselves amidst the previously mentioned Vast Amounts of NT Dollars, thus being the invisible, yet most damaging portion of the populace.
Yet, I hope that this is another exercise in Saving Face, which the Chinese are so good about doing. Lots of pointing of extended fingers and noise and generally running around like a bunch of drunken monkeys, all the while Putting This Face and Show On While Not Really Doing Anything.
They won't pick on anyone with money, which is a great travesty in and of itself, and is an act of abject cowardice.
Leave the student alone. Go after the real problem.
The aliens in ID4 cracked our own satelite system so they could communicate with themselves, which leads me to believe they have a fair understanding of our communication protocols and the deployment and useage of such.
I believe Dr. Levinson was using the first release of LinuxPPC to gain access into the alien's n00bie unsecured Linux box.
See?
Many years ago, I was approached by a balding young man and another young man that was too trim and far too slim to be considered normal.
I had just finished my Newbie's guide to D.O.S. which included source code and executables on a floppy, which was neatly tucked into a paper folder on the following flap of the book.
These two people offered me a nice sum of 50k for both the rights to the book and the rights to the source code and assorted garbage that I included on the disk.
You know, the rest is history. Do I regret my actions? Yes. Pretty much. Do I care? Damn well I do. What do I do now? I code compilers for MS. Weh heh heh heh heh heh heh. There's a bit of irony and a smidgeon of revenge in this.
My last proffo stint was at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I loaned a disk full of neat-o stuff to a guy named Marc...Marc VanBeersendrinken? Mark von Pantyhosensplinken?...anyway...it was was some Marc or Mark Somesuch.
Oh well, off to the nest failed project...
I guess we all know what Corel will be doing next...Inferno!
Oh, wait...Corel will only latch or not latch onto it after it's usefulness has already been determined...woo!
Oh wait, is it Open Source, or is it Free? Do we know? Do we care? Will it make Bill Gates's loomies wet with sweat from his fear of impending cometition?
Will this make Sun run and point fingers at them all the while touting Java! Java! Java!
Will it make clueless lawyers misrepresent their clients' cases in front of a 90 year-old judge who is still struggling with the concept of an A: drive and a C: drive, all the while trying to discern between a single-click, a double-click, or variations of right and left clickage under duress and one-click shopping? Define a click! Is that right, or left? Are there click chads? Pregnant click chads? What about a prematurely clicked chad if that chad was run on a republican operating system deployed in a presumably democratic-leaning minority precinct? Would the pregnant click chads and dimpled cross click chads and partially flamboyant click chads be counted fairly across all iterations of this software, or will it merely reside within the domain of proprietary operating systems, or would it be passed mightly down to the realm of the free, the brave and the hopelessly fragmented? What would happen if your ChadOS had only one mouse button?
Good thing Florida got no programmers. Would be hard for them to discern between a right click and a left click, or the actual intent of the end-user's presumed intent of a possible decision about a highly probable distinction between that which is a click, is not a click, a right or left click, or the variations thereof.
I guess all we have left is the operating system's determination of various states of clickage vs. the end-user's original intent to click.
For far too long the computer-loving populace has suffered through what the large chip markers want us to have at the rate they want us to have it.
I decided enough was enough, and created my own company that will produce a most revolutionary product.
Yes, this will be a line of CPUs.
No, I won't pull a Transmeta and hide the details and real-world performance data from the world till my company goes IPO.
The plan is simple; offer the public exactly the features they want at a price point they are comfortable with. You want massive L1 and L2 caches? You want a seperate L3 cache that's so big all your friends will envy it? Do you want FPU and ALU units that are so big, hairy and powerful that they require their own power supplies? Or do you want to customize it and build it so small that your daughter's Barbi Doll Home has fully functional x86's with a fully functional broad-band network?
You want it? You got it!
My engineers and I have designed a process that will allow YOU, the end-user, to build a CPU in your OWN home from our easy to use kit. We proudly call it the CeePeeYou!
Impossible you say? I say Nay! We have developed a special silicon that reacts to common micro-onde-bonding methods. We have combined this with our revolutionary new trace material made from poly-amimetic-alloy. Combined with environmentally-safe (and biodegradable) dopants, our kit will allow you to custom build your own CPU to your own specifications, whims and desires.
The base kit will contain enough transistors and whatnot to allow you to assemble a CPU that is as powerful as those available today. Furthermore, you may purchase extra circuit kits that will allow you to tweak your processor design in any way you want. These upgrade packets will be available at a truly nominal cost.
Each CeePeeYou! kit will contain:
1 packet of micro-onde-bondable silicon
1 vial of poly-amimetic-alloy
1 packet of environmantally-friendly dopant
1 packet of 1 million pre-made transistors
1 package of quick-mix ceramic to make the CPU plate (bakes to done in only 15 minutes!)
1 package of 425 gold plated pins
1 spool of really tiny copper wire
1 Complete, easy to follow instruction manual, and;
1 Interactive CD-ROM
Estimated time of assembly is 20 hours. Cost is $49.99 +S&H
We will also release a version for the younger person called the CeePeeYoujr! More details soon!
CeePeeYou, CeePeeYoujr, Micro-Onde-Bondable Silicon, and Poly Amimetic Alloy are trademarks of CeePeeYou! Corp.
I'm all bug-eyed and pant-y tounged just waiting until a year from now when I can buy the $1999 upgrade for my current P4:
P4 Overdrive Kit! Ugrade your current P4 1.4/1.5/1.7 GHz CPU to a P4 Overdrive running at 2 GHz! $1999!
Anyone know where I can buy a build-it-yourself home microprocessor kit?
I was just reading the FAQ on Mathworld. It's an interesting little ditty, peek here:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/docs/faq.html
This type of corporate raiding always burns my arse, simply because it is greed, greed, greed.
Monsters.
Anyone want to bet that CRC has a similar version of Mathworld coded up and ready to go?
Slashdot Mirror
Or even this link to view the abstract. This requires Apple Quicktime.
The patent number for this is: 4,807,115
Surf on over to US patent and Trademark Office and do a search with the patent number here:
Search uspto.gov by patent number
Or read it here if I don't bung up the the HTML.
Things to note are:
Torng was named Intel's first Intel Academic Research Fellow. Not a big deal really. Cept maybe Intel has some back-door deals cooking or cooked with this patent.
This was patented in 1995...but the patent appears to cover every x86 CPU on the market.
The _Abstract is as follows:
"An instruction issuing mechanism for boosting throughput of processors with multiple functional units. A Dispatch Stack (DS) and a Precedence Count Memory (PCM) are employed which allow multiple instructions to be issued per machine cycle. Additionally, instructions do no have to be issued according to their order in the instruction stream, so that non-sequential instruction issuance occurs. In this system, multiple instruction issuance and non-sequential instruction issuance policies enhance the throughput of processors with multiple functional units."
Sounds like someone is trying to stave off future patent disputes...the like of which we have seen between Centaur/IDT and VIA...
I just hope that the 14 students from NCU are from wealthy families, since having vast amounts of NT Dollars carries considerable clout in Taiwan. I cannot stress this enough...money will get you out of damn near any jam that you get into on that island. Bribery is done openly and is a widely accepted means to doing business, whether legal or illicit.
BUT, this strikes me as very odd, since they are going after students, a group of society that generally have few nickels of their very own, and whom are there to learn and better themselves and the economic condition of their country.
It would be FAR more effective to go after the innumerable legion of street thugs whom do nothing more than steal from any available coffer than actually be a viable part of society.
It would seem the thugs are cloaking themselves amidst the previously mentioned Vast Amounts of NT Dollars, thus being the invisible, yet most damaging portion of the populace.
Yet, I hope that this is another exercise in Saving Face, which the Chinese are so good about doing. Lots of pointing of extended fingers and noise and generally running around like a bunch of drunken monkeys, all the while Putting This Face and Show On While Not Really Doing Anything.
They won't pick on anyone with money, which is a great travesty in and of itself, and is an act of abject cowardice.
Leave the student alone. Go after the real problem.
Yea! Right.
Long live Soochow U!
The aliens in ID4 cracked our own satelite system so they could communicate with themselves, which leads me to believe they have a fair understanding of our communication protocols and the deployment and useage of such. I believe Dr. Levinson was using the first release of LinuxPPC to gain access into the alien's n00bie unsecured Linux box. See?
David...david....dave? Dave? hello?
Many years ago, I was approached by a balding young man and another young man that was too trim and far too slim to be considered normal. I had just finished my Newbie's guide to D.O.S. which included source code and executables on a floppy, which was neatly tucked into a paper folder on the following flap of the book. These two people offered me a nice sum of 50k for both the rights to the book and the rights to the source code and assorted garbage that I included on the disk. You know, the rest is history. Do I regret my actions? Yes. Pretty much. Do I care? Damn well I do. What do I do now? I code compilers for MS. Weh heh heh heh heh heh heh. There's a bit of irony and a smidgeon of revenge in this. My last proffo stint was at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I loaned a disk full of neat-o stuff to a guy named Marc...Marc VanBeersendrinken? Mark von Pantyhosensplinken?...anyway...it was was some Marc or Mark Somesuch. Oh well, off to the nest failed project...
I guess we all know what Corel will be doing next...Inferno!
Oh, wait...Corel will only latch or not latch onto it after it's usefulness has already been determined...woo!
Oh wait, is it Open Source, or is it Free? Do we know? Do we care? Will it make Bill Gates's loomies wet with sweat from his fear of impending cometition?
Will this make Sun run and point fingers at them all the while touting Java! Java! Java!
Will it make clueless lawyers misrepresent their clients' cases in front of a 90 year-old judge who is still struggling with the concept of an A: drive and a C: drive, all the while trying to discern between a single-click, a double-click, or variations of right and left clickage under duress and one-click shopping? Define a click! Is that right, or left? Are there click chads? Pregnant click chads? What about a prematurely clicked chad if that chad was run on a republican operating system deployed in a presumably democratic-leaning minority precinct? Would the pregnant click chads and dimpled cross click chads and partially flamboyant click chads be counted fairly across all iterations of this software, or will it merely reside within the domain of proprietary operating systems, or would it be passed mightly down to the realm of the free, the brave and the hopelessly fragmented? What would happen if your ChadOS had only one mouse button?
Good thing Florida got no programmers. Would be hard for them to discern between a right click and a left click, or the actual intent of the end-user's presumed intent of a possible decision about a highly probable distinction between that which is a click, is not a click, a right or left click, or the variations thereof.
I guess all we have left is the operating system's determination of various states of clickage vs. the end-user's original intent to click.
You laugh now...
My design is actually much, much better.
For far too long the computer-loving populace has suffered through what the large chip markers want us to have at the rate they want us to have it.
I decided enough was enough, and created my own company that will produce a most revolutionary product.
Yes, this will be a line of CPUs.
No, I won't pull a Transmeta and hide the details and real-world performance data from the world till my company goes IPO.
The plan is simple; offer the public exactly the features they want at a price point they are comfortable with. You want massive L1 and L2 caches? You want a seperate L3 cache that's so big all your friends will envy it? Do you want FPU and ALU units that are so big, hairy and powerful that they require their own power supplies? Or do you want to customize it and build it so small that your daughter's Barbi Doll Home has fully functional x86's with a fully functional broad-band network?
You want it? You got it!
My engineers and I have designed a process that will allow YOU, the end-user, to build a CPU in your OWN home from our easy to use kit. We proudly call it the CeePeeYou!
Impossible you say? I say Nay! We have developed a special silicon that reacts to common micro-onde-bonding methods. We have combined this with our revolutionary new trace material made from poly-amimetic-alloy. Combined with environmentally-safe (and biodegradable) dopants, our kit will allow you to custom build your own CPU to your own specifications, whims and desires.
The base kit will contain enough transistors and whatnot to allow you to assemble a CPU that is as powerful as those available today. Furthermore, you may purchase extra circuit kits that will allow you to tweak your processor design in any way you want. These upgrade packets will be available at a truly nominal cost.
Each CeePeeYou! kit will contain:
1 packet of micro-onde-bondable silicon
1 vial of poly-amimetic-alloy
1 packet of environmantally-friendly dopant
1 packet of 1 million pre-made transistors
1 package of quick-mix ceramic to make the CPU plate (bakes to done in only 15 minutes!)
1 package of 425 gold plated pins
1 spool of really tiny copper wire
1 Complete, easy to follow instruction manual, and;
1 Interactive CD-ROM
Estimated time of assembly is 20 hours. Cost is $49.99 +S&H
We will also release a version for the younger person called the CeePeeYoujr! More details soon!
CeePeeYou, CeePeeYoujr, Micro-Onde-Bondable Silicon, and Poly Amimetic Alloy are trademarks of CeePeeYou! Corp.
I'm all bug-eyed and pant-y tounged just waiting until a year from now when I can buy the $1999 upgrade for my current P4: P4 Overdrive Kit! Ugrade your current P4 1.4/1.5/1.7 GHz CPU to a P4 Overdrive running at 2 GHz! $1999! Anyone know where I can buy a build-it-yourself home microprocessor kit?
I was just reading the FAQ on Mathworld. It's an interesting little ditty, peek here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/docs/faq.html This type of corporate raiding always burns my arse, simply because it is greed, greed, greed. Monsters. Anyone want to bet that CRC has a similar version of Mathworld coded up and ready to go?