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Intel shoots themselves in the foot?
Posted by: Hooz on: 02/22/2001 03:57 PM [ Print | 6 comment(s) ]
According to an article over at InfoWorld, it appears as though Intel has plans to eliminate their "lower end" processors from the SMP arena. I'll let this quote bring you up to speed:
So what do you think? Could this logic be another nail in Intel's coffin? Post you thoughts and comments right here.
The company will announce that its Pentium 4 chip will remain a single-processor device for PCs and that the dual-processing needs of servers and workstations will be handled by a chip code-named Foster. Foster is a next-generation Xeon chip with dual processing capabilities and the Pentium 4's NetBurst architecture. Foster is set to arrive in the second half of this year, sources said.What does this mean for us? It means that if we want to continue to reap the benefits of having two motors under the hood we will be stuck buying Xeons as the only Intel SMP capable platform. I have to say that dual TBirds are looking better and better all the time.
"What Intel is trying to do is put some distance between multiprocessor configurations, which will be Xeon-based, and Pentium 4 chips for the desktop and low-end workstation environments," Brookwood said.
So what do you think? Could this logic be another nail in Intel's coffin? Post you thoughts and comments right here.
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duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#7902 Posted on: 02/17/2005 08:58 PM
The Register has posted a review of IBM's Thinkpad T42p. The T42p sports ATI's Mobility Fire GL T2 workstation graphics chip. What sets a workstation chip apart from standard graphics chips is its certification for use with certain high-end graphical design packages. So if you want a notebook to run a CAD package, or a 3D rendering application, you'll want one that has a graphics chip approved by the software vendor. That way, when you run a preview of that complicated scene that you've been working on for days, you know it will work.This really does look like a mobile workstation. You might want to take a look. |
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duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#7903 Posted on: 02/17/2005 09:38 PM
Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools |
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duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#7904 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:20 PM
Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools |
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Jim_ Administrator Posts: 3464 Joined: 2000-03-15 |
#7905 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:25 PM
The guys over at SFFTech have posted a review of Iwill's ZMAXdp SFF. If I'm not mistaken, Hooz is running one of these units in the secret 2CPU.com underground test bunker. After previewing two "engineering samples" and now reviewing the final shipping product, we can confidently say that the ZMAXdp continues to amaze us. As you |
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duke Administrator Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#7906 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:31 PM
Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools |
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Jim_ Administrator Posts: 3464 Joined: 2000-03-15 |
#7907 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:33 PM
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