It's pulled from the melt more or less in a long cylinder. As said in the article, the first seed is put into the melt to create the orientation of the crystal, then slowly turned and pulled upwards. The eventual ingot is then ground into a perfect cylinder.
Yes, I thought about that after. "Voids" would have been a better word than "holes", but the target audience who knows nothing about semiconductor physics would never pick that up. I would have been a little more specific though, had I known this was going to end up here where people actually understand what a transistor is.
No, they aren't supposed to buy 3 year old hardware. New things like faster ram, and more of it, as well as faster hard drives are most certainly appreciated. The problem is that most processors such as P4's are overpowering the rest of the system, chewing up electricity, and not giving much benefit to the consumer. What I'd like to see is a Pentium-M derivative for the desktop. Or more people find VIA C3's.
You're quite correct up until the last two sentences. It's already been delayed a few times. In the original scenario, both Dothan and Alviso were supposed to be released together in 2003. Almost a year later we now find one of them in retail, with the other MIA (delayed twice more). I fully understand product delays, especially considering the "issues" surrounding Intel's 90nm process. But the CPU has long since been as fixed as it's going to be. The question is, where's it's dancing partner?
They are planning to shunt these into rack mounted servers. Why? As you mentioned, heat and power consumption.
Supporting a faster bus is easy. Intel's qualification is so good that most of their chipsets support a bus speed one or two steps above the one they are rated for. i845 went from 100MHz in the original P4's right up to the current 200MHz (clock, not effective speed *which would be 800MHz in IntelSpeak*).
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It's pulled from the melt more or less in a long cylinder. As said in the article, the first seed is put into the melt to create the orientation of the crystal, then slowly turned and pulled upwards. The eventual ingot is then ground into a perfect cylinder.
Yes, I thought about that after. "Voids" would have been a better word than "holes", but the target audience who knows nothing about semiconductor physics would never pick that up. I would have been a little more specific though, had I known this was going to end up here where people actually understand what a transistor is.
No, they aren't supposed to buy 3 year old hardware. New things like faster ram, and more of it, as well as faster hard drives are most certainly appreciated. The problem is that most processors such as P4's are overpowering the rest of the system, chewing up electricity, and not giving much benefit to the consumer. What I'd like to see is a Pentium-M derivative for the desktop. Or more people find VIA C3's.
I couldn't agree more about finding the article in the mess of ads that don't even relate to the sites goals. And I wrote the piece.
You're quite correct up until the last two sentences. It's already been delayed a few times. In the original scenario, both Dothan and Alviso were supposed to be released together in 2003. Almost a year later we now find one of them in retail, with the other MIA (delayed twice more). I fully understand product delays, especially considering the "issues" surrounding Intel's 90nm process. But the CPU has long since been as fixed as it's going to be. The question is, where's it's dancing partner?
They are planning to shunt these into rack mounted servers. Why? As you mentioned, heat and power consumption. Supporting a faster bus is easy. Intel's qualification is so good that most of their chipsets support a bus speed one or two steps above the one they are rated for. i845 went from 100MHz in the original P4's right up to the current 200MHz (clock, not effective speed *which would be 800MHz in IntelSpeak*).