[Rant] Pentium IV Prototype at 3.5 GHz | ANN.lu |
Posted on 29-Aug-2001 09:05 GMT by Christian Kemp | 41 comments View flat View list |
Solar (BAUD) wrote:
PPC vs x86, Intel vs AMD, believe me folks I´d like to see PPC rule the market, but this looks like x86 is here to stay. I think it´s interesting to see what will be tomorrow, even if it has little to do with Amiga today.
Yes, I know that GHz isn´t everything, but that´s a *lot* of GHz to make up for with superior (?) architecture...
From Heise Online:
"In the early morning, shortly after 8 AM local time, [Intel] presented a prototype of a 0.13µm Pentium-4 (Northwood), which - shortly - ran at 3.5 GHz.
On average, the IDF record breaking CPUs reach the market after roughly a year. The 2 GHz type that started production yesterday was also presented as a prototype on last year´s IDF. So we can expect the 3.5 GHz Pentium 4 in late summer 2002. In general, so Otellini, the architecture can be scaled up to 10 GHz."
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Posted by Thierry on 31-Aug-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 34 (Hans-Joerg Frieden): Hi,
I was wondering, 12 seconds. What CPU and speed is your Amiga?
I've always wondered, does a SCSI Compact Flash card reader exist? If one does, could it be hooked up, set to ID 0, and a Compact flash card of 16 Megs could almost make an "instant on" Amiga? You could even put multiple boot roms on it, although illegal; I did email Amiga Inc. asking for this to be sold by them.
I remember reading, a long time ago that 68040's were booting too fast, the hard drive didn't spin up in time to feed it information, some kind of delay had to be implemented, but, however, a compact flash card would be ready the second the power came on. The only question is, what is the read/write transfer rate of Compact Flash cards? BTW, I think they're the best thing out there.
I would do this myself, but my budget, currently is in the gutter, so, I'll have to leave it for another day.
Amiga is STILL simply THE best!
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