As expected, Intel has introduced a 3.8GHz Pentium 4 processor in what could represent the end of an era for the chip maker. The Pentium 4 570 processor at 3.8GHz will have the fastest clock speed of any processor available from Intel for an indefinite period. Intel has decided to cancel a planned 4GHz Pentium 4 processor and improve the performance of its desktop chips by adding cache memory.
Intel originally designed the Pentium 4 processor to run at faster and faster clock speeds and for years planned its marketing campaigns around those increases in clock speed. However, this year the company realized that the engineering resources required to eke out additional speed gains could be put to better use. The most recent Pentium 4 processors consume a great deal of power and can produce excessive heat within a PC, requiring additional testing and validation before they can be released.
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Intel originally designed the Pentium 4 processor to run at faster and faster clock speeds and for years planned its marketing campaigns around those increases in clock speed. However, this year the company realized that the engineering resources required to eke out additional speed gains could be put to better use. The most recent Pentium 4 processors consume a great deal of power and can produce excessive heat within a PC, requiring additional testing and validation before they can be released.
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Pentium M is similar to P6, I don't know if it is called P6 or something else.
But in practice it's apparently around every 16 months, I remember reading.
Moor's Law is not a law, not at all. It's mearly a statistical observation an Intel exec (Gordon Moore) observed way back in 1965. Some unkowning press people dubbed it a law. (Even worse is when people throw in the "fact" that computer performance doubles every 18 months like the transistors.)
Besides, it's rarely followed in the semiconductor industry. Sure, CPU's may be close on it, but things like GPU's have far exceeded it and other things like the image sensor of a digital camera are far, far behind.
(at least for applications and games making efficient use of concurrent threads, which not all software is)
I don't think that 4 cores will reach desktop market for many many years.
Too much overhead is not good for games and similar software.
Well, the cores have a shared cache so that would create a performance hit.
Higher bus traffic equals less smooth execution.
Developers have to spend more time at the base code instead of add more interactive things.
Doom 3 showed that even a single core CPU and cause problem.
I think that 2 cores will be enough for a long period of time. No more than 4 is needed until we have much faster memory.
That's just how I see it.
32 cores in a home computer = crap
Brains work differently though and while being outstanding at some tasks, it sucks at data storage/computing compared to a computer. But with sufficiently advanced technology, I think the brain is proof enough that some kind of combo of these advantages would give us small computers running without cooling. Possibly being even more amazing if we manage to get this deal about quantum mechanics right.
Just don't catch a cold around the computer
not hardly! maybe ur brain is, but the brain is infinitely more powerful than ALL the computers in the world put TOGETHER! all the data storage devices in the world together couldnt hold as much information as the brain can. get ur facts strait. u need to remember we dont even use hardly any of our overall brain power, its already a well know fact, at least i thought it was for some people.
anyone remember that article and video of someone clocking a processor to 5ghz by using cooling the processor using liquid nitrogen? click
Pentium M is similar to P6, I don't know if it is called P6 or something else.
P5 is ooold.
P6 = 80686 Pentiums & 80686 Celerons
P4 = Pentium 4
80286
80386
80486
then...
Pentium (80586)
Pentium Pro (80686)
Pentium II (P2) (80786)
Pentium III (P3) (80886)
Pentium 4 (P4) (80986)
Are you running a supercomputer?
So research should be directed to that as well.
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