There was a demo of this at the most recent Intel Developer's Forum. ExtremeTech has an article here.
From the article:
In one demonstration, Otellini played back an episode of "The Simpsons" on a prototype Vanderpool system while Louis Burns, general manager of Intel's desktop products group, played a 3D game. After shutting down the game, Burns rebooted the partition while the video streamed on uninterrupted.
I'll combine a reply to a post higher up where somebody commented that the CPU should report what speed it is here as well.
Intel (and most CPU makers') processors support the CPUID instruction. There is a method available on Pentium 4 processors and later that report the "factory" speed. What CPUID returns is determined by the values in EAX before the CPUID is executed. More information here.
Also, Intel does provide a utility to measure the current speed of the processor and report various other things like cache size and package type. Available here.
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I seriously doubt that Intel goes looking for this kind of thing, but the precedent has been set. Holding a trademark today means that every effort to defend it must be made. Obviously nobody would confuse the two brands. I worked for a company that had "Shack" in the name and Tandy went after the owner. Tandy claimed that consumers would be confused, and mistake our business with Radio Shack. The point here is that both Tandy and Intel were forced to file suit to show that the trademark would be defended. Hopefully the matter can be solved out of court, for example Intel offered to cover the cost of changing names. If the court rules in favor of Intel (I doubt that it will, it is a fairly weak case) we should not direct our contempt towards Intel and other trademark holders for following the rules. What needs to be changed here is the precedent, and maybe all of the trademark laws to account for situations like this.
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Intel (and most CPU makers') processors support the CPUID instruction. There is a method available on Pentium 4 processors and later that report the "factory" speed. What CPUID returns is determined by the values in EAX before the CPUID is executed. More information here.
Also, Intel does provide a utility to measure the current speed of the processor and report various other things like cache size and package type. Available here.
/*These comments express my opinions, not my employer's*/
I seriously doubt that Intel goes looking for this kind of thing, but the precedent has been set. Holding a trademark today means that every effort to defend it must be made. Obviously nobody would confuse the two brands. I worked for a company that had "Shack" in the name and Tandy went after the owner. Tandy claimed that consumers would be confused, and mistake our business with Radio Shack. The point here is that both Tandy and Intel were forced to file suit to show that the trademark would be defended. Hopefully the matter can be solved out of court, for example Intel offered to cover the cost of changing names. If the court rules in favor of Intel (I doubt that it will, it is a fairly weak case) we should not direct our contempt towards Intel and other trademark holders for following the rules. What needs to be changed here is the precedent, and maybe all of the trademark laws to account for situations like this.