VIA JOINED what seems be a pell-mell rat-race to produce X86 based processing last week, but it's still very unclear what performance benefits - if any - the technology is going to bring us. All three companies remain deliberately vague about the performance benefits of dual core microprocessors, but it's clear that abandoning the megahertz madness that we've written about for years is part of the picture. The frequencies of the two cores in one package will be less than than the clock speeds on roadmaps - whether they're disguised as PR+ ratings or in other ways - that we've been used to.

Of the three X86 companies now committed to producing dual cores, AMD has so far disclosed the most details about its products and it's also more than likely that its chips will be first out of the gates in 2005. Intel won't be that far behind - three desktop "Smithfield" SKUs, with the unlikely numbers X40, X30 and X20 (See here), will have done all of their sampling by the second quarter of next year, ready for the traditional sales cycle through distributors and re-sellers that starts to accelerate every August.

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(4 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by SVT on 02 Nov 2004 - 13:04
Forget the dual core chips, I'm waiting for Asynchronous x86 CPUs.

SVT
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by kronik on 02 Nov 2004 - 16:05
err... whats that? got any good resources?
Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by SVT on 02 Nov 2004 - 16:41
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1997 - Intel develops an asynchronous, Pentium-compatible test chip that run three times as fast, on half the power, as its synchronous equivalent. The device never makes it out of the lab.


http://research.sun.com/features/async/
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID...umber=1&catID=2
Quote this comment #1.3 Posted by kronik on 02 Nov 2004 - 19:20
wow thats quite informative and impressive thnx. however are there rumours/speculations about x86 versions being made?
Quote this comment #1.4 Posted by 8-n-1 on 04 Nov 2004 - 20:27
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Forget the dual core chips, I'm waiting for Asynchronous x86 CPUs.


Since there's been nothing said about these for years, and multi-core appears to be in the forefront, you will probably be waiting a long time.

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