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Interesting read about upcoming K9 processors
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20040726PR202.html
This interview with Tyan president Symon Chang provided the following quotes: "Around 2006, when the market moves to AMD's next generation of chips, you will be able to go over 8-way. What I mean is that with eight sockets, and dual cores, you then have sixteen processors, but with K9, you'll see it go over that. I think we'll see a significant increase in the amount of crossbar switches in the CPU. I'm not up on all the minute details, but you' ll be able to go over 60 processors without adding any external crossbar chips. We can do all that within the structure that is being currently created. The crossbar bar chip is the standard in the mainframe business whether it is for the Xeon, Opteron or other processors. There are a couple of versions of the crossbar chip today, but I don't think that anyone is currently using them for anything in the generic market; these solutions are really only for the mainframe market. Today's mainframe market with computers from IBM or Sparc will be using up to and over 128 processors, with chips such as IBM's 390 microprocessor. These machines are starting around US$1 million." That's right over 60 processors without any kind of a special chipset support!!! Also he had some opinions about Windows XP64: "Q: Do you think Microsoft's 64-bit OS will come out on time? Chang: I hope so. There are delays, but I believe it will. Interestingly enough, a couple of significant things have happened this year; for example, Intel's Xeon processor with 64-bit extensions is a reaction to the unexpected popularity of AMD's Opteron, which put Intel under pressure to provide a similar solution for the OEM market. If Intel had not reacted, it would have lost out. Their response was to come out with a 64-bit CPU that is not optimal, but at least they have it, and I would compare that with what Microsoft is doing now in the realm of the 64-bit operating system." Doesn't sound like Chang believes that Microsoft is trying all that hard to build a 64-bit OS. It's getting something out to show that it isn't behind the times. Yousuf Khan -- Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers dot com Spambots: just reply to this email address ;-) |
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