On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 08:55:07 GMT, Brian Inglis wrote, in part: there are also 6 integer units, 4 FMAC units (2 DP + 2 SP), 4 MMX units, 3 branch units, 2 load + 2 store units, IA-32 decode/ control unit, Advanced Load Address Table, 128 integer + 128...

The following story contains some very tantalizing combinations of things that have never been associated with each other befo http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39116947,00.htm It's a demo of the shoot'em'up game America's Army, running on a 64-bit Linux kernel, running on...

I have detested the old x86 segmented architecture for about three decades. Where "about" is "less than", given the release year of the 80286? (-: x86_64 doesn't even support segmentation. And good riddance!!! What took them so long?! :-)

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:28:40 +0000, Rich Teer wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Peter Perlsø wrote: So, let's hear it - give me a few good reasons to shell out, say 1,5 mil on a Sun solution, compared to the tenth of than on, say, Red Hat Enterprise on a custom built Xeon system. Oh...

Intel is introducing a type of DRAM called FB-DIMMs (fully buffered). Apparently the idea is to be able to put any kind of DRAM technology (e.g. DDR1 vs. DDR2) behind a buffer without having to worry about redesigning your memory controller. Of course this intermediate step will add some latency to...

X-bit labs - Hardware news - Intel Confirms New CPU Architecture to Launch in Late 2006. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20050512111032.html One interesting thing they mentioned is that they're going to attempt to retain Hyperthreading even with the new less-pipelined core. Hyperthreading...

AMD does come out with performance benchmarks higher than intel. But i find many AMD systems not performing as expected against the intel counterpart. and almost always its the intel that wins in every aspect. Why is the bench mark different from the true story?? and if its the case of...

Pentium M has all the right ingredients for total world domination: low power consumption, short pipeline stages, hi-performance. Pentium M will kill its brother Pentium 4 and its ******* cousin Athlon. PowerPC is a Neanderthal that's nearing its end (Jobs figured that out). But ARM will survive...

X-No-Archive: yes Just upgraded my processor from a P4 1.7 - P4 3.06ghz. The problem is Windows 98 SE always locks up at the same point at the start. I established that the system is stable by putting windows XP on an external hard drive and running PRIME95 & MEMTEST. Both ran fine for hours...

The Pentium-M seems to be unusually superb, even going up against the ultimate gaming processors. GamePC - Dothan Revisted : Focusing On Gaming Performance http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=dothangaming&page=1 Yousuf Khan

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/13/HNprescott_1.html So what's all expected for Q3 now? - 64-bit extensions - 1066 MHz Bus - 3.73 MHz Prescott/Dothan? - Grantsdale/Alderwood chipset with PCI Express How about on-board Firewire 800 and SATA-II?

The x86 line is long past retirement time, but the IntelMicrosoft cartel won't allow it. Intel spent much of the 1990s and a large amount of money trying to retire it and convince the world that IA64 was the thing to use instead. The world stuck with x86, and came up with x86-64. So...

Franklin wrote: Is there a rough rule of thumb which indicates the price difference between an AMD system and an Intel system of the same power? Same power for what? In Doom 3 for example, an Athlon 64 3500+ beats anything that Intel makes, even chips at almost 3x the...

http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/20040811-4091.html http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17790 Apparently it's based on a Celeron 90nm running at 1Ghz with no cache (presumably no L2 cache rather than L1). I assume that this means that it's a P4-based Celeron rather than some P-M-based Celeron....

Hi Guys, I am planning to build a high performance workstation. So I know I want a dual chip system with SCSI. Form Intel's site it appears that Xeon is a better chip BUT the current Xeon available here in Toronto is mainly 533 MHz FSB. These days the P4 with 800 FSB AND higher clock rate is...

In article , bbbl67 @yahoo.com says... AMD's Hypertransport gained two more major chip players in IBM and TI. Also joining were EMC and Network Appliance in the storage field. ...

Hello, Why is x86 badly designed ? * x86 hasnt enough registers. * x86 has variable length instructions, * x86 has mem to mem operands, * x86 has complex addressing modes, * x86 is backward compatible with useless features like "real mode" at boot, etc. x86 are CISC but RISC processors take more...

Regarding whether Intel is going to be using the AMD64 language or not, and answer is not, it's using the IA-32e language. Other than the name it's exactly the same as AMD64, right down to the number of registers, and lack of support for Virtual-8086 mode, etc. Here is AMD's AMD64...

According to this story: http://www.silicon.com/news/500018/1/5962.html Intel is delaying the introduction of a Wi-Fi chip inside its Centrino chipset. I thought Intel already had a Wi-Fi chip in the Centrino? Yousuf Khan

Dell has said that it does not want to raise prices on its systems any more than what it normally does with any other new CPU introduction. With Intel expected to ask upto 90% per dual-core CPU than single-core, either Dell is going to have raise its prices, or Intel will have to reduce its. My...