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New Itanium chips cost just $744 by
Yousuf Khan
The new low-cost, low-power "Deerfield" Itanium 2 chips released today are
the cheapest in the Itanium family ever. The 1.0Ghz costs $744, while the
1.4Ghz costs $1172:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=75&ncid=75&e=2&u=/nf/20030908/tc_nf/22235
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AMD to leave x86 behind? by
YKhan
No real details here, just a "stay tuned" message, but that should be
enough to start wild speculations running.
"One strategic path that will knock you for a loop, and which I'll
detail soon, is AMD's coming escape from the confines of Intel's
x86 instruction set. To this point, AMD has resisted...
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Good news for SPARC by
Anthony Mandic
In comp.unix.solaris Roger Marquis wrote:
The good news is that finally, after years of declining competitive
advantage, Sun is finally multi-sourcing the production of SPARC
processors.
This can only be good news for consumers as it paves the way for
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4.0Ghz P4 now officially cancelled by
Yousuf Khan
Will now concentrate on 2MB L2 caches instead.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19089
Yousuf Khan
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Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers dot com
Spambots: just reply to this email address ;-)
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65nm news from Intel by
Yousuf Khan
http://www.reuters.com/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp?type=technologyNews&localeKey=en_IN&storyID=6098883
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Interesting read about upcoming K9 processors by
Yousuf Khan
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...
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photonic x86 CPU design by
Nathan Bates
A rumor is that yet another x86 startup company (as in Cyrix)
has opened shop on Freedom Circle (which by no coincidence,
is next-door to Transmeta). Dozens of tech companies tried to compete
in the x86 arena and all failed (including AMD in terms of
profitability).
The twist is that this x86 CPU...
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Is Itanium the first 64-bit casualty? by
Yousuf Khan
Interesting reading here, and very common-sense. Itanium may be the next
casualty in the 64-bit wars, when Itanium was the one that caused the 64-bit
wars to start in the first place.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/25/26enterwin_1.html
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Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers...
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Microsoft shortens Windows name by
Yousuf Khan
The previously named Windows XP and 2003 "64-bit edition for 64-bit extended
systems" has now just been shorted to "for X64". Eg. Windows XP Pro for X64
or Windows Server 2003 for X64.
Looks like Microsoft has decided on X64 as the universal moniker for all
X86-64 marketing names.
Yousuf...
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September 24th 04 04:38 AM
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AMD Sempron ships by
Yousuf Khan
Looks like AMD has taken the wraps off of its budget Sempron line a few days
early.
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3387051
There are two distinct lines of Semprons, several K7-based Socket A and a
K8-based Socket 754. The K8 Semprons have their 64-bit capabilities
disabled. The...
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September 8th 04 04:57 PM
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Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design by
Jim Brooks
Signs and portents as JMS would say.
Stevel Jobs does a 180' and enthusiastically becomes
Intel's bedfellow on the basis of a compelling roadmap.
That roadmap has to be pretty darned interesting.
Intel claims they aren't developing Hyperthreading anymore.
But Intel now knows all the issues...
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October 28th 05 02:34 AM
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Intel follows the margin by
Robert Myers
Hey,
Anybody sobered up yet from the over-the-weekend I-told-you-so parties
yet? ;-).
Before you decide to load up any more than you already have on AMD and
to short any more than you already have on Intel, consider this:
http://www.forbes.com/newswire/2004/05/10/rtr1366203.html
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Why was Intel a no-show on No Execute? by
Yousuf Khan
This has been discussed at quite some length in these newsgroups, but now it
looks like the mainstream press are starting to hear about it too. Intel had
to be embarrassed into including NX into its AMD64...
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ex-Apple CEO says they should've gone x86 in the 80's by
Yousuf Khan
Apple's ex-CEO John Sculley said that they were evaluating
Intel-architecture in the late 80's, and decided that it couldn't keep
against RISC processors, so they went the RISC route. They didn't count on
the evolutionary process eventually putting x86 on a par with...
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December 9th 03 01:09 PM
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July 20th 20 01:35 PM
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IBM's PC business up for sale by
ykhan
So I guess it's goodbye comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips, and hello
comp.sys.lenovo.pc.hardware.chips? :-)
Well, I'm actually kind of surprised that IBM still has a PC business,
I thought they got out of them years ago.
Yousuf Khan
The New York Times Technology I.B.M. Said to Put Its PC...
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Some early benchmarks for P4EE by
Yousuf Khan
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11670
Ace's Hardware seems to be seeing between 2-15% improvement from the 2MB L3
cache.
Ace's will also be doing a head to head against processors from a "rival"
processor manufacturer in a couple of days, when their NDA expires. Stay
tuned.
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