electronist
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Is it true that the name PENTIUM was chosen by INTEL in anticipation of the 5 chips that it was going to release over the years or is it some other reason?
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grrr_arrghh said:There has to be a speed limit. We're talking Ghz (x10^9) here. Electricity only travels at around the speed of light (about 3x10^8), so we are reaching a point where the speed of the proccesor is fundamentaly limited by the speed of electricity. So you have to make the boards smaller, so it doesn't have to travel as far, but then things get so small that electrons start jumping from one track to another. Its getting to the point where we're gonna have to have super cooled proccessors (I'm talking liquid helium), to try and stop arcing between tracks.
grrr_arrghh said:unfortunately, I can't take advantage of the 64bit proccessors while still running win98 though...
grrr_arrghh said:unfortunately, I can't take advantage of the 64bit proccessors while still running win98 though...
grrr_arrghh said:I thought Xp 64bit was already released...? anyway, I hate XP with a vengence, and won't be buying it unless I abolutely have to.
lol, don't get me started on ME!samcheetah said:i dont understand why you hate XP. but i think it must be something like me hating WindowsME back when it was released.
bmcculla said:I think Intel's next processor is going to be a dual core chip running at a lower clock speed. This should be great for multi threaded apps but not that usefull for single threads.
Overall I think AMD is much better positioned. Power dissipation is a big problem and AMD has much more efficient chips.