Intel’s new chip for gamers and enthusiasts was officially unveiled by Lou Burns on the big stage here in the San Jose Convention Centre. The chip will sport an extra 2Mb of cache and will start at 3.2GHz. Lou, told his audience of developers and hacks that the chip, named Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, delivers "awesome performance". Burns said Intel had listened to the gaming community and designed the chip with them in mind. He said the chip will be available to buy in the 30-60-day timeframe.
Intel spokesman George Alfs told the INQ the chip would sport a 800MHz frontside bus allied to the 2.5MB L3 of cache in total. He said the company had worked closely with OEMs who build games systems and who really wanted something for gamers. He said the extra cache would improve the performance of the chip significantly, by reducing the need for the processor to go off to memory for data. This combined with the implementation of Hyperthreading in the chip will deliver unparalleled performance. Both Half-Life2 and Doom 3 will implement Hyperthreading enhancements to exploit the technology.
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News source: The Inq
Intel spokesman George Alfs told the INQ the chip would sport a 800MHz frontside bus allied to the 2.5MB L3 of cache in total. He said the company had worked closely with OEMs who build games systems and who really wanted something for gamers. He said the extra cache would improve the performance of the chip significantly, by reducing the need for the processor to go off to memory for data. This combined with the implementation of Hyperthreading in the chip will deliver unparalleled performance. Both Half-Life2 and Doom 3 will implement Hyperthreading enhancements to exploit the technology.
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In an effort to stem the widespread copying of music over the Internet, the Recording Industry Association of America sued 261 computer users last week, and it plans to sue hundreds more. Several of those sued have expressed dismay that their Internet providers turned over information about them without their permission.
The association is the first to apply the subpoena provision in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 to identify people who make files available for others to copy from their personal computers using file-sharing software like KaZaA. Under the statute, copyright holders do not need a judge's signature to compel Internet service providers to turn over the names of subscribers.
The appeals court decision, expected later this fall, could have important consequences for the music industry's antipiracy campaign. Cary Sherman, president of the recording industry group, said today that using the subpoenas made it easier and less expensive for the organization to file so many lawsuits because it could consolidate the lawsuits in geographic regions under local lawyers hired for that purpose.
Verizon contends that the law was meant to apply only to material that subscribers post on Web sites that reside on computers controlled by Internet providers. The rise of peer-to-peer technology, which lets Internet users find and retrieve files on one another's computers, the company says, was not foreseen by Congress when it passed the law.
Verizon is also challenging the constitutionality of the law, arguing that if it does allow the subpoenas to be used in this way, it violates subscribers' rights to privacy and due process. Judge John D. Bates of Federal District Court in Washington ruled against the company earlier this year, forcing it to turn over the names and addresses of at least four Internet subscribers.
Sarah B. Deutsch, a vice president and lawyer for Verizon, said the company had received 200 subpoenas since then. It is complying with all of them, except for one in which a New York woman has challenged the recording industry's use of the subpoenas to identify her.
The hearing came as two Congressional committees prepare to examine the 1998 statute more closely. On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee will hear testimony about copyright protection and consumer privacy from lawyers for Verizon and SBC, which has filed a separate challenge to the subpoenas in federal court in San Francisco. John Rose, executive vice president of EMI, and Mr. Sherman of the recording industry trade group will also testify.
Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican, has scheduled a Sept. 30 hearing of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that will address privacy issues as well as the broader effect of technology on copyright enforcement.
And Senator Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican, introduced a bill today to protect Internet providers from the controversial subpoenas. His proposal would block subpoenas except in pending civil lawsuits or in cases where unauthorized copies were stored on Web sites.
News source: New York Times
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1. AMD never delivers on time...
2. There is already a void for mobo's and chipsets. This kills AMD's opening sales everytime, I mean come on, how many working Opetron or A64 systems have you seen, and im not talkin about reviewed machines on various hardware sites, Have you actually seen a oper server in access at work or on someones desktop? So far the opertron has been in my book a horrid failure just due to the costs and availability of parts
3. The P4EE will run in motherboards already available.
4. It will perform just fine, its not 64bit, people touting benchmarks of the A64 vs P4 are ignorant as 32bit and 64bit are apples and oranges... compare the 64bit processors that Intel has had on the market for years against the 64bit amd chips thats a more fair comparison but Intel 64bit processors are not designed for gaming and gaming benchmark programs.
thats just my .02
1.all indications are that AMD won't paper launch this time and will actually deliver some meaningful supply of the first chips.
2. how many working itanium systems have you seen at your job?? there aren't any a64 systems out now and since most opteron system were designed for dual and quad servers, you won't really find them at most businesses as most people who need quad servers in large numbers aren't your average customer.
3. now it will, but there are many motherboards that this and the prescott to my knowledge won't run on. also consider the "fact" that the prescott will release over 100w of heat and the athlon64 supposedly released no more than 55, that's a HUGE HUGE difference in heat, cooling, fan noise etc...
4.the benchmarks comparing the opteron (which will probably be rebadged as a64) and the p4 are strictly 32bit program comparisons. it's nearly impossible to compare the itaniums to the opterons because the little software written for the itanium can only work for the itanium, that's it. but when you compare 32bit software that the opteron and the mainstream p4 can run, the opteron beats the p4 in many benchmarks and you have to consider that the p4 has a 1.2ghz clock speed advantage over the latest opteron chip and probably a faster bus.
all the benchmarks are to say here's what the latest opteron chip designed for use in single processor systems can do, based on this here's what kind of performance we can expect from the athlon64. considering the opteron is competing more against the xeon than the itanium and the xeon isn't much different from a mainstream p4, these benchmarks tests are good advertisements for the atlhon64/opteron.
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